A very visual email
Added 2022-03-18 18:17:31 +0000 UTCListener Patrick sent in this email, which wouldn't have really worked to read on the last episode, but put forth an interesting theory. Larry could easily be a FF fan. This is Pat's email, copied and pasted:
Something kept nagging at me. The black panthers. I was discussing with Discord user Jorkkeli about the possible influences of Antigua, and the story seems to be a mash-up of a lot of visual media influences - The Last Unicorn, The Hobbit, The Wizard of Oz, the Smurfs (minwads being a mash-up of Smurfs, Hobbits, and Munchkins, each with a characteristic that makes them exactly one thing), but something wasn't adding up.
The black panthers. I'd seen them somewhere.
And then it hit me - Frank Frazetta. I remembered a few of his artworks that contained women with black panthers, and found this sketch:
Bingo? I mean, sure, it's a sorceress looking woman with one black panther on a throne, sure... But... it couldn't be that, right? So I start looking up Frazetta art...
...snake around the neck...then Jorkkekli found this...
Bat-winged goblin...
Centaur and bear-like bear with extra long claws and a deformed face...
NASTY FOX!
GORDLE!
FAIRIES!!
SHARKS
GHOST WITCHES AND TREES WITH NO LEAVES!
OWLS, GORILLAS and PANTHERS (oh and a dog) and RED EVIL EYES
You get the idea. All of this.
And then we get to the narrative styling of Antigua.
What happens?
A suspenseful scene is described, what happens next? (viewing a Frazetta artwork)
*turns the page in the art book*
And then just as suddenly, it was gone.
Scenes constructed from how you read an art book.
I give you Antigua, the Land of Looking at Frazetta Paintings.
Comments
I loved seeing Frazetta's originals at illustration exhibitions, and was surprised just how small some of them are.
Veronica Fish
2022-04-18 03:54:28 +0000 UTCThat really makes sense. The Ellises are the right age to have had college roommates who hung Frazetta posters on all their walls.
Tina Tempest
2022-03-28 18:58:50 +0000 UTC
