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So over dinner yesterday I was talking to a Taiwanese guy who also lives in the house I've just moved into.
In passing he mentioned that he was a fan of Sandman, so naturally we started to talk about comics..
He said that he drew comics in his spare time, and for a joke he'd done one where all his mates were turned into ninja warriors and killed each other.
I said it sounded cool, so he showed it to me and, well, it's absolutely breathtaking.
The story's just a bit of a laugh, as you'd expect, but the art is fucking brilliant - it's easily as good as most professional comics .. it's dynamic, inventive, highly skillful and extremely cool looking.
Perhaps not quite up to the standard of Quitely/Jimenez, but he can fucking bury the guy who did that recent New X-Men annual..
His style's kind of jointly influenced by Manga and Dave McKean, to terrific effect. Flicking through his sketch book, you could stick any page on the front of a Vertigo comic and it would be as good as any cover they've done this year.
Sadly, he seems pretty dismissive of the Western comics industry (He's read and enjoyed Sandman, Arkham Asylum and Swamp Thing but hates superheroics - needless to say I immediately lent him an Invisibles Trade) and doesn't have time to draw much anymore 'cos he's an immensely hardworking medical student.
Maybe if I do his washing up and cook his meals everyday and be his best friend he might one day consider drawing one of my scripts.. |
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If he ever gets an urge to draw other peoples stories, I wanna get dibs.