Vroom Socko in Deadline Magazine: Inks/Colors by Glyn Dillon
Added 2023-07-28 23:52:15 +0000 UTCI have to take it easy typing because of the hand (still waiting for EMG results from the neurologist), so I'll just be posting these color Deadline pages one at a time, with the backstory asap.
Anyway, hey, Glyn Dillon inks and colors over my pencils, pretty wild.
Comments
I've done a few gigs with what is, for lack of a better term, a more "mainstream" style. Predator: Big Game (which, on the whole I egregiously failed at), Fight-Man, Hellboy: Weird Tales, and to a degree Vroom Socko. Glyn, Jamie and Phil were, iirc, part of the "Worthing crowd" as some put it and also, iirc worked on each other's stuff or with each other a bit. I was told that Jamie and Phil contributed to these colors/inks to a small degree but when I asked Glyn later on at a con he said that wasn't the case. But they were clearly all influencing/pushing one another (and many others) during Deadline's heyday, myself included. It's something I miss from the Deadline and Instant Piano days, feeling part of a group, if not exactly a scene. We mostly work alone, heads down in our space. It's good to bounce off people, and bounce things off people. Even if I found it hard to deal with criticism back then, because my work was so much behind everyone else's. It sold okay (for indy work), but I was very aware of my limitations. Still am. Have never drawn Tank Girl.
Evan Dorkin
2023-08-04 02:10:16 +0000 UTCThese are so good, and totally new to me. Blowing my mind a bit to see you working with more traditional body proportions and less of a 'funny books' cartooning style. I know artists hate being compared to other artists, and maybe it's the inks/colours, but I get strong Hewlett vibes off this (who I guess Glyn could have easily been sitting next to at the time...) β have you ever drawn a Tank Girl in your long career? (Not professionally necessarily, just in general).
Jim Stafford
2023-08-01 09:38:52 +0000 UTCYeah, Glyn had a nice line and I have, well, a different line. All the Deadline artists seemed to do color work on top of inks from what I remember. No budget for separations, probably (not much budget for much of anything, ha ha), and probably the way they just were used to making art. Seat of the pants, painting and coloring over whatever was laid down in ink. Lots of art school folks in the mix, playing around and enjoying themselves. I wish I had the skills.
Evan Dorkin
2023-08-01 04:30:12 +0000 UTC
