Random Old Commission Post Before I Get Something To Eat
Added 2023-12-09 03:55:56 +0000 UTCI don't draw the Red Skull/Baron Zemo Milk & Cheese characters anymore, because Nazis stopped being old pop culture bogeyman that you'd see getting punched out or made fun of. The pastiches appeared in a M&C-styled strip in Captain America Red, White and Blue some time back, the story was called "Der Last Time I Stormed Paris", if I remember correctly. I really enjoyed working on that one, it was editor Andy Lis's suggestion during an enjoyable and semi-memorable Ace Bar hangout in Manhattan. I don't know if I posted it here, I might have b&w line art scans of the strip. I had a lot of fun matching up old Marvel trivia to a typical Milk & Cheese search and destroy approach (and a MAD/Kurtzman overboard take on stereotypical comic book German-accented English). Getting paid to write "Jeepers, Creepers, vere'd you get dem Sleepers?" was definitely a dopamine nerd shot.
Anyway, one day I did some thinking (for a change) and realized I was not comfortable drawing them as Nazis, even comic book Nazis, even for an obvious joke. These days they're too damned real. There's plenty of other things to draw. Jah.
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Oh itβs not worth all that unless you really want to do it! I just ordered a copy of the book for these two pages πππ
Tim Kocher
2023-12-11 14:01:46 +0000 UTCI'll look to see if it's on my computer. It would be on Sarah's, but which old hard drive, that's the question. We have to go through that stuff someday -- I know at least one hard drive is broken (uhg).
Evan Dorkin
2023-12-10 22:30:57 +0000 UTC
