Had a hiatus from graphic arts work due to travel and a longer-than-usual illness than debilitated my muscles to the point I couldn't gripanything or manuever a goddamn mouse. That's all in the past, let us speak of it no more. We have here another Fumetti out of archival images, featuring a possible true story of breaking the sound barrier. This is page 2 of 4, so I'll get it all up soon enough, but I wanted to mention Blambot which is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in making comics. They have dozens of creative fots with great names like "Radioactive Granny," which should be a story all of its own, but even better perhaps 1/2 of them are free. The font for this story was "Evil Genius" with "Flyboy" used for the title page, which isn't posted yet. Sometimes I just like to look at fonts and let them inspire the stories...
I have been really into aviation adventures as of late-- movies like the Aviator and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, plane museums, that kind of thing. The only great comic I remember in this vein was Ken Steacy's Tempus Fugitive, where the protagonist ends up flying different planes in different eras. I met Steacy last year and we talked for a long time about different planes, enough that he gave me a good deal on a sketch. Great guy, great comic.
Comics-wise, I've been in a less superhero, more Vertigo mood. Mere minutes ago I completed Enigma by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo, a classic slice of Vertigo with horrific violence, weird sex, and a twisting plot that doesn't really end-- just pulls the camera away at the climax to reveal a bigger picture. In its way it's more satisfying than having good guys beat bad guys or vice versa. Highly recommended.
We go from Vertigo at its best to Vertigo at its worst, which is both confusing to read and disappointing in its quality given its pedigree. Mike Carey and John Bolton did an OGN called God Save the Queen using some of the Sandman fairy characters in a metaphor for heroin addiction-- so far, so good-- but so much of the art is autographed splash pages depicting unneccesary plot elements that I have to think Bolton had random paintings lying around and he asked Carey to write a story around them. Quite a Liefeld move if you ask me. I'm keeping the book as it may be worth a second look, but mostly because all those hard covers look great on my shelf.
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