Brilliantly bad (but good) in your face artwork and the monochrome and red styling just sums up the halcyon days of the Mick Anglo studio churning out this kind of stuff in 1950's London.
I like it the awkward and stilted way myself. If the girl was more cutting we'd feel the reaction was specific to her, ie she becomes a very defined character. This way, we get the sense it's pretty much the reaction he'd get from any girl.
Neill Cameron is a professional illustrator, writer and comics artist who has illustrated projects ranging from Doctor Who, Thor and Transfomers to Shakespeare and comics about traffic safety. His first graphic novel, the giant robot school comedy epic 'Mo-Bot High', is available now as part of the fantastic DFC Library series.
Neill is currently working on new projects combining dinosaurs, pirates, monkeys and numerous other Things That Are Awesome for new weekly children's comic The Phoenix, launching in January 2012.
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Hmm... love the art and set up, butmaybe the girl should have been more cutting?
Panel 2: What!? Drink with some anonymous superdork? No way...
Panel 3: Try me again when you've been on the cover of Heat.
I dunno, that sounds a bit pithy. I was kind of going for 'awkward and stilted'. (No really, I was)
Brilliantly bad (but good) in your face artwork and the monochrome and red styling just sums up the halcyon days of the Mick Anglo studio churning out this kind of stuff in 1950's London.
I like it the awkward and stilted way myself. If the girl was more cutting we'd feel the reaction was specific to her, ie she becomes a very defined character. This way, we get the sense it's pretty much the reaction he'd get from any girl.
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