ARCHIVE PAGE 11
January 2007
January 4, 2007
We had a boatload of technical problems with the web sites yesterday [and this morning]; everything seems to be working correctly now, and all that's left is to clean up and catch up.
ANIMATION
DISNEY'S THE RESCUERS
Ken Anderson was the art director and one of (the very many) script writers on Disney's 1977 animated The Rescuers. This is a film my family is very fond of, and I personally like quite a bit. Below are a few of the Anderson preliminary sketches for the Medusa character who was voiced by Geraldine Page. (The character was created by animator Milt Kahl, who did the final version of the character which appears in the film. The story often told about Kahl is that he ended up doing most of the animation work with this character in the film because no one else was able to keep the quality consistent).
You can see quite an evolution in the character design from Ken Anderson's sketches:
Wikipedia link about the Medusa character in The Rescuers.
Ken Anderson Links:
New York Times Bio
Wikipedia Bio
Disney "Legends" Site Bio
IMDB page on The Rescuers
December 31, 2006
SNAKE MAN
See you next year.
December 30, 2006
Frank Robbins and Leonardo di Vinci
[above] Frank Robbins page from DC Comics Weird War Tales #21, cover dated January 1974. Click to enlarge
More N. C. Wyeth.
[From my sketchbook: A lady on the Washington DC subway ("Metro"]
December 29, 2006
Batman Frank Robbins
[above] If you like Frank Robbin's artwork (like I do) be sure to look at my page about Robbins with 17 pages of his comic book artwork at Art and Artifice.
Van From hell
This beautiful van ("the van from hell" was written by finger through the crud impasted over the side windows) was traveling along Route 95 North going towards Washington DC. The picture really does not do it justice.
Another photo from Washington DC - the gate to Chinatown. This area used to be a peep-show/x-rated theater/pawnshop area in the 1970s and 80s. The change has been pretty dramatic compared to those days.
Below: The Pharoanic Egyptian Washington Monument. I don't know if George Washington had much feeling for things Egyptian, but that's how people in government after he passed on decided he should be honored.
Darwyn Cooke and Tim Sale SUPERMAN CONFIDENTIAL #2
I am enjoying the Tim Sales quasi-poster/comic book art for this title. It's not perfect - - I had some complaints about a few things that didn't make sense in the artwork for Superman Confidential #1, but with this second issue the only complaint I have is a plot point in the story, where Superman is endangered by drowning by lava, but then a burst of oxygen sends him back to the surface. Where did the oxygen come from? (From Superman himself?) Anyway, it's not clear to me, though maybe it is to other readers. I'm wanting to see a few more issues and write a new review on the title. Sale's artwork is as good as ever, though he seems to be in a three-stacked panel mode for most of these pages, which doesn't exactly mean a lot of story is moving along very fast.
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