Vroom Socko in Deadline Magazine: Inks/Colors by Glyn Dillon (Pg 4)
Added 2023-07-31 22:05:06 +0000 UTCLast of the color pages by me and Glyn Dillon. The rest of this chapter was in black and white. Deadline often ran color pages in the front of a story, kind of like some manga, come to think of it. I wonder if that was something done in 2000 AD and other UK comics magazines at the time (Warrior, Revolver, etc). My memory doesn't recall, and I never really read 2000 AD past collections of Judge Dredd and Nemesis back in the 80s. I think the Eagle reprints of Judge Dredd were colored for the U.S. market. The 80s. Time flies.
I was really happy with how these pages came out, especially as how unused I was to seeing anyone else's inks on my creator-owned work. I was looking forward to the rest of the planned chapters, four in all.
Unfortunately things didn't go according to plan. This was a project that started off with a bang and then became a bit of a nightmare for me. A work/scheduling nightmare. A fun nightmare, but a mess nonetheless.
More on that in another post.
Comments
Cool, thanks for that information. I thought I remembered something like that back in my comic shop days.
Evan Dorkin
2023-08-01 07:37:51 +0000 UTCUK reader here, the old newsprint comics had a limited amount of colour pages so there would be a 2 page spread at the start of the story and then the rest in B&W. If you've read any of the early Dredd strips (like Cursed Earth or Apocalypse War) the first two pages of each chapter would almost always be the colour ones.
Robbie Foggo
2023-08-01 06:01:04 +0000 UTCYeah, it's very 80s NYC. Formative time/place for me. Always wanted to live in Manhattan/east or west village, would have been hard but doable in the 90s but impossible for the last twenty years.
Evan Dorkin
2023-08-01 04:24:55 +0000 UTC
