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Drawings, sketches, illustrations, and occasional musings from comic book creator Dale Rawlings.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Love is always stronger than hate!
Ruben Bolling's Tom the Dancing Bug Charlie Hebdo cartoon is brilliant.
You can view the entire strip here.
You can view the entire strip here.
Bloom County redux!
I've been reading the Bloom County Library collection from IDW recently
and enjoying it quite a bit. It reprints ALL of the Bloom County strips,
many of which have never been included in any collection before. Bloom
County, while some of the strips are indeed timeless, is very much a
product of the 1980's. So much so that the IDW collection has
annotations telling readers who various celebrities are that might go
over the heads of readers who didn't grow up in that era.
Anyhoo, I noticed a discernible difference between a strip from the 1983 "Loose Tails" collection from Little Brown (top strip) and the same strip (on the bottom) collected by IDW in 2009. I refer specifically to the first panel of both versions of the strip. I am guessing the tamer version was the one that ran in newspapers and the saltier version was what Breathed wanted to go with but changed by the syndicate and eventually printed in the 1983 collection.
Anyhoo, I noticed a discernible difference between a strip from the 1983 "Loose Tails" collection from Little Brown (top strip) and the same strip (on the bottom) collected by IDW in 2009. I refer specifically to the first panel of both versions of the strip. I am guessing the tamer version was the one that ran in newspapers and the saltier version was what Breathed wanted to go with but changed by the syndicate and eventually printed in the 1983 collection.
Monday, January 12, 2015
Some days, I get the best mail!
Every year I draw a cartoon for Airbeat magazine for ALEA's (Airbourne Law Enforcement Association) Aircrew of the Year Award. These strips chronicle the rescue an air crew has performed that earned them the award. This year the award went to the United States Park Police aircrew led by Kenneth Burchell who bravely airlifted several people to safety during the Navy Yard shootings. Sgt. Burchell sent me a lovely email thanking me for the strip and telling me how exciting it was to see himself in a comic strip portrayed as the hero. Sgt. Burchell, the honor was mine and I salute you.
As a bonus, I have posted the ALEA strip before I added the text- mainly because I was really proud of those clouds I painted in Photoshop. This was the first time I had attempted to do clouds using the paint tools in Photoshop and really liked how they came out Eventually, however, they became obscured by the text. Comics DC reprinted this on their blog and shortly afterward Navy History Matters magazine reprinted it as well. My work is now in the annals of Navy History. Wild.
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