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Jenny Everywhere in 'Name's Not Down'

 
  

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Regrettable Juvenilia
19:17 / 24.10.02


This is a shameless piece of spam, in a way, and as a Conversation moderator I will personally move it into the Comics forum myself in about 48 hours. However, in the meantime, if ever there was an excuse to bring something to as many people's attention as possible, this is it (in a really shallow, selfish way).

Those of you who frequent the Creation may already be aware of this thread. If not, go read some of it, at least until you get a vague idea of who/what Jenny Everywhere a.k.a. The Shifter is.

(A public domain character created by moriarty - may his name be praised - you lazy buggers who've got this far and don't know.)

It gives me great pleasure to introduce what will hopefully be the first of many tales of the Shifter, 'Name's Not Down', written by myself with art from the unreasonably talented Nelson Evergreen. It's an everyday tale of simple seaside folk, exclusive door policies and necessary violence, and we will be very grateful for any feedback you people have to offer (well, I will be grateful - Nelson is probably too busy torturing his Muse, whom he keeps in a box in an abandonned bingo hall in Hove, the cruel bastard).

I hear all the "hipsters" are into it. Hope you like.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
19:42 / 24.10.02
I read this earlier. It's ace. I want to do one now (I even tried drawing a Jenny while I was procrastinating earlier - mine has furry boots though). Ace!
 
 
Rollo Kim, on location
19:47 / 24.10.02
Will def checkitout cause Nelson's art is very, very sexy.
 
 
Persephone
19:53 / 24.10.02
We "dorksters" like it, too. Three cheers for moriarty, Flyboy, and Nelson Evergreen... and Sax and Lentil are not far behind, I ween?
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
19:58 / 24.10.02
This is fab. really fab.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
20:00 / 24.10.02
We did it for *the kids*.
 
 
Jack Fear
20:02 / 24.10.02
Well, old bastards like meself dig it too. Nelson's not just unreasonably talented: he infeasibly talented.

And, uh, you don't exactly suck, neither, Mighty Joe Flyboy.
 
 
w1rebaby
20:27 / 24.10.02
and he's got a topic abstract!
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
21:04 / 24.10.02
Lovely. Who is the terrifying staring 'Guides' T-shirt guy? He's worthy of a spin-off, IMHBCO.
 
 
Lilith Myth
21:20 / 24.10.02
dead cool, as they say oop north.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
23:20 / 24.10.02
That, my friends, rocks. Rocks nuts. And with fists of steel, too.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:34 / 25.10.02
Lovely. Who is the terrifying staring 'Guides' T-shirt guy? He's worthy of a spin-off, IMHBCO.

I can take no credit for baldilocks - he's 100% Nelson's creation. I'm sure he'll return if you *demand* it, much like every X-Men character ever.

"Dorksters" is now my new favourite word, Persephone. Cheers, and cheers for the kind words, all...
 
 
Sax
11:38 / 25.10.02
... and Sax and Lentil are not far behind, I ween?

Sax and Lentil are indeed finished and pages will be uploaded somewhere soon. ie when Lentil stops wasting his money buying presents for his other half and going on holiday and stuff and concentrates on what really matters.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
09:47 / 31.10.02
Just bumping this 'cos it's been moved to the Comics forum as promised. C'mon, sequential art specialists, tell us what's good/bad about it...
 
 
lentil
10:20 / 31.10.02
I know, I'm like some kind of teasing annoying person with my assurances of completion that are in no way substantiated by the appearance of any actual work. Sorry!
The good news is that I have reached the penultimate plateau, my pages are scanned and sitting on my hard drive like little eager greyhounds. I expect them to be made indecently available on the weekend.
 
 
Sax
10:22 / 31.10.02
Well, everyone in Club Twart is unhealthily thin and good looking (apart from the bloke in the Hot Dog Tee. Is this meant to be me?) but other than that, I personally think it's fab. Love the off-panel stuff and the pacing of the story. And the dialogue's realistic and flows as well, which is nice.
 
 
Persephone
11:47 / 31.10.02
I wonder... is it possible to see the original script? Of both of yours? That would be very interesting.
 
 
at the scarwash
15:28 / 31.10.02
Super rad, sirrah. Dialogue easily evokes personality and dialect. Nice brusy Paul-Popey things in the artwork, with also some kind of Lynn Ward scratchboardish textures. Grrreat stuff. Pop comics rock.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
15:38 / 31.10.02
I wonder... is it possible to see the original script?

Entirely possible. PM me your e-mail address - or alternatively, I could post it here if more than a couple of people are interested.

On a related note, I've now seen two of Nelson's pages from the next one of these we're doing: looks like we're both hooked...
 
 
Nelson Evergreen
17:34 / 31.10.02
Ah! Nice to hear Lynd Ward mentioned, testpattern. I spent a bit of time lapping up his illustrations for "Frankenstein" before starting my own take on the book (a commission) a couple of months back. Something dark and scratchy must have rubbed off and carried through into the comic.

For you, Sax, a close up of The Hot Dog and his friends:



I refuse to believe that the Good Doctor looks anything like this. That said, there's a few visual impressions of various 'lithers I've never met scattered about in there.
 
 
Mr Tricks
19:43 / 31.10.02
Cute story... great art...

curious to see what you're interpretation of which 'Lither lokked like.... any hints you'd care to share?
 
 
Nelson Evergreen
21:47 / 31.10.02
I've already said too much.
 
 
Mr Tricks
00:02 / 01.11.02
"doctor Who?" AWWW c'mon!!! Just a bit more YOU Teese!!!!
 
 
Persephone
02:19 / 01.11.02
I'll PM you, Fly... but I think you should post your script here, too. Because Barbelith should be like a big backstage pass!
 
 
Nelson Evergreen
10:26 / 01.11.02
"doctor Who?" AWWW c'mon!!! Just a bit more YOU Teese!!!!

Oh, that's Sax (as in "Doctor Sax", the Kerouac novel), who I now can't help but associate with the wee fellow in the above picture who's about to wet himself with the sheer joy of having a good time in public. And that, frankly, is wrong of me. I hope.

For the record, Fly's scripts are perfectly realised slabs of infectious wordsmithery which I suspect contain subliminal exhortations along the lines of "illustrate me immediately".
 
 
grant
14:06 / 01.11.02
I'd love to read the script as well.

The giant heads inside the club are preeettty.
 
 
_pin
10:27 / 04.11.02
I wanna read the script too. And I like it. I like the art. I want the art. Now. Bitch.

Err... what was I saying? It's nice. Well done. Let us see the magic so that it may become demystified and crap. Then the untalented can feel better about ourselves.
 
 
bigsunnydavros
21:59 / 06.11.02
That's great stuff. The art's very stylish and cool and the writing has a really nice flow to it.

If your up for it, I'd love to read the script for this.
 
 
Tamayyurt
00:35 / 07.11.02
That was so great! I want to see more. Oh and, I love the Barb Tees. What did Nathen's shirt say? I couldn't make it out.
 
 
Pepsi Max
14:18 / 07.11.02
Like yer style.

*Adopts whinny voice and ponytail*

It's Tank Girl meets TV Go Home on Ketamine.

Yeah. I'd like to see more of this. Preferably something a bit longer. And more needlessly violent.

One worrying thought: Your heroine looks like her from Bis.

Careful now.
 
 
Nelson Evergreen
17:58 / 07.11.02
Nathan's t-shirt reads "Dicksplash" (a common term of abuse in North Wales schools many a moon ago). He thinks he's wearing it ironically. But that's because he's a dicksplash.
 
 
Tamayyurt
18:42 / 07.11.02
hahahah fucking great!
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
19:59 / 07.11.02
Nathan Barley, I presume...
 
 
Nelson Evergreen
22:33 / 07.11.02
Likely! You'd have to ask Fly, but for the record, I was originally going to draw the tee reading "C**t", under the assumption he was barking up that particular tree.
 
 
gretchen
09:11 / 13.11.02
Funny, beautiful, and for the record, my favourite frame/s is the "Thwack"/!/flying shoes following Lex's "we are the fabulous entourage" speech. Superb comic timing.
 
  

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