Comments | zelempa: DS Comic: Speranza's "Interrogation," Part 2 (pp. 4, 5, 6)

zelempa

DS Comic: Speranza's "Interrogation," Part 2 (pp. 4, 5, 6)

Feb 22, 2010 02:57

Part 2, or "how many different ways can Ray yell at Fraser?" (And there's still more to come, people!) Story by Speranza, art by me. Part 1 here.

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alex51324 February 22 2010, 07:56:30 UTC

This looks great, Z! I love the part about Madge.

zelempa February 22 2010, 15:25:18 UTC

Me too! I love the description "crazy capitalist bag lady." (Which is I guess why I gave it so much emphasis?)

laurie_ky February 22 2010, 13:41:49 UTC

Wheeeee!

I adored comic books when I was a kid, and even when I was in college I kept a subscription to Spider Man, as relief from school work and work-work.

I'm really enjoying your adaption, and I'm going to wait to read the story until after the comics are finished. These guys are a great contrast, the way you've drawn them, Fraser so solid and steady and Ray so kinetic. Love the bracelet, nice detail.

I appreciate all the work you're doing. These are really fun to look at.

Laurie

zelempa February 22 2010, 15:27:07 UTC

Thanks! Hee hee, is reading the comic first kind of like seeing the movie first? I bet it is more suspenseful this way, since you only get to read a bit at a time! I'll try not to spoil the ending in the notes. :)

(THEY GET TOGETHER)

reflectedeve February 22 2010, 14:58:07 UTC

More fantastic body language. :D (I will get over that someday. Maybe? Also, speaking of, you're going to post that new L&E page at some point, right?)

I love how close-together Fraser and Ray keep standing. Was it really that close in the show? (Probably, huh?) I can see that I have to give the later seasons yet another watch-through. ;)

These comics also look a lot more . . . cleaned up than some of your other work? (I love your other work, but it stands out a bit.) The inking looks great.

zelempa February 22 2010, 15:35:05 UTC

Auuugh. Shhh. Yes. But, obvs, this is getting drawn instead of any new pages. (Sigh ( ... )

reflectedeve February 22 2010, 15:51:44 UTC

Ahaha, sorry. ;) And it happens - but it looks like you're keeping yourself on a tight enough schedule for these. (Oh, fandom and your broader audience. So tempting.)

Clearly I should read the story as well as the comic. Well, I keep saying I'm going to try some of Speranza's Fraser/Kowalski.

I hear you. When I was doing a lot of real people-based comics and illustration last year, I had to keep reminding myself that I am really not a portrait artist, and that if versions of characters in "my style" didn't look exactly like themselves, that was fine (even right).

zelempa February 22 2010, 16:34:29 UTC

Yeah, I mean, I guess don't need to try to capture every aspect of each guy (but I want to!) and maybe if I attempted a mite less detail it would work better for my style since I don't have the technical skill to do a straight-up superhero-type realistic portrait (but I want to!) The thing is, there's a certain stoic beauty to Fraser, and a certain catlike smooth/cute visual appeal about Kowalski, that I feel I have thus far inadequately rendered, and *I want to find that.* Each drawing is like a discovery, am I going to do it right this time? I tried to do some character design drawings before I started but I figured as long as I'm drawing them over and over I might as well just draw the comic and see what happens. Which of course means that as I go through the comic the character design is changing. So. Um. Look over there.

If Speranza's Fraser/Kowalski doesn't make you love them, I don't know what will. And the Zebra vid. Which I think I've already told you is like my all time favorite love song to RayK. He could be a gentleman! ( ... )

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springwoof February 22 2010, 16:08:01 UTC

oh, wow! I was blown away here.
you're really good at depicting that "body language" stuff, aren't you?

zelempa February 22 2010, 16:22:09 UTC

Thanks! I try. For the record, the body language, the movement, that's all there in the text-- I mean, I don't think I've drawn an action yet that hasn't been described explicitly in the story.

Take page four, for example:

Panel one: From the story: "Ray was sitting on the edge of the interrogation table, arms crossed, jaw clenched. He looked up as Fraser entered the room ( ... )

erda_3 February 22 2010, 21:51:27 UTC

That expression on Ray's face when he is looking down in panel five is so awwwwww. Actually all the expressions are getting to me.

zelempa February 23 2010, 02:44:48 UTC

On page five? Yeah, he's all, I give up. *pets him* Hee hee. Thanks, I'm glad you like it.