Dick Tracy by Dick Locher

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Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

Today’s strip is a particularly good example of Dick Locher’s storytelling abilities.

Pay attention to how Dick has positioned the art to drag your eye from one panel to the next.

And–in true action adventure form–he ended the day on a mini-cliffhanger!

MPH
Margueritem said, 9 months ago

Professor Noll promised this to Tess and her friends. Angelorius came bursting in the Tracy’s front door telling them she was going to make them rich, and now she’s taking it away from them?
wndrwrthg said, 9 months ago

Where is the Hazmat team? Where is the bomb squad? Where are the police officers that should be securing the scene? Where is the fire crew that should still be on scene? Where is Dr. Noll and why was he allowed to enter a potentially explosive area where he could possibly disturb evidence? Why did Dick leave the scene to begin with? Why is that woman(?) wearing Kabuki makeup? If perfume explodes in the neighborhood does Tracy hear it? Do my questions upset anyone? Do I care?
JDG said, 9 months ago

I am just a plain old reader for fun! Genius?? Somebody with loftier knowledge than I has said so, I have no basis to disagree, but I don’t see it!!
tommys said, 9 months ago

MPH You’re joking.right?
Michael McMillan said, 9 months ago

Why hasn’t Angelorius been arrested? She just wandered in and made get-rich-quick noises since she entered, and only the fact that Tess is eating up the Make Money Fast stuff might save her from trespassing charges at the least.

Yes, Anthraxglorious, this is big! Would you really store this explosive perfume IN YOUR HOUSE while trying to sell it? Taking it away from the neighborhood housewife sales brigade may, in a perverse sort of way, be the first right decision made here. This stuff should be stored in special blast-proof bunkers.
LudwigVonDrake said, 9 months ago

If the house is as blown apart as it looks, the authorities would not let Nubby back in. SHEER GENIUS!!!!
HankF said, 9 months ago

It seems the real geniuses are writing comments…(Geniuses in their own minds!)
JonD17 said, 9 months ago

Matthew HanselPro says:

Today’s strip is a particularly good example of Dick Locher’s storytelling abilities.

Pay attention to how Dick has positioned the art to drag your eye from one panel to the next.

And–in true action adventure form–he ended the day on a mini-cliffhanger!

MPH

absolutely profound, I think this bares repeeting:
Matthew HanselPro says:

Today’s strip is a particularly good example of Dick Locher’s storytelling abilities.

Pay attention to how Dick has positioned the art to drag your eye from one panel to the next.

And–in true action adventure form–he ended the day on a mini-cliffhanger!

MPH
CyberV said, 9 months ago

As a gender-confused Joker insults our intelligence by pointing out the direction we should be reding the strip in, Joker ALSO goes from incompetant businesswoman to flat out evil in just two panels. At the same time, Dick manages to leave his home and return to do the job he, CSI, HAZMAT, and the Bomb Squad should have done in the first place, investigating the explosion at the house… In the span of 2 seconds. But there’s no police tape telling people to stay out, the lights are on inside the house, the door is open, and despite being the middle of winter, the trees still have all their leaves. Except the ones that cease to exist in the space between Dick and the house.

Incompetant. Utterly incompetant.
ridenslide65 said, 9 months ago

I’m still not sure why Dick and Tess would leave Antraxilicious by herself in their home. Doesn’t DT read the Snotpickers Grabbag on Sunday’s?

So, are we to assume there may be 2 criminals here? Dr. Stumps and Anthraxilicious?

The suspense builds…..
Nemesys said, 9 months ago

“Speaking of stuff”? How did Tracy hear what Jokerette was saying?

Is Tracy really Clark Kent?

As to the lack of a haz-mat team, don’t forget that the air is still full of the scent of Dick, and we know that has unpredictible effects on everyone… even Dick himself.
JoeTrom said, 9 months ago

I was thinking that maybe to get DT back on track, they should do what they did with Annie by restarting everything from the beginning and have a separate writer and artist. Too bad Jay Maeder didn’t get to write Tracy.

I miss Max Collins.

A Dick Tracy comic book series might also be a way of getting new readers (DC or Marvel).
Sydney Phillips said, 9 months ago

I’ve come to the conclusion that Dick Lochwer, never in a hurry, takes THREE panels to incrimentally take his story where most other Authors would be at in ONE panel with the aid a text box. Getting to the POINT is not his thing!
His style reminds me of the Sci-Fi movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still”.
Then, that fawning exercise in the first post has inadevtently thrown up the right name for the perfume – “LOVE SIC”. Another example of how the unintended produces the right answer. No wonder brief visits are allowed once every 6 months or so, to look at the studio and soak up “superb” vibes from a living Genious’ work station.
That’s why never tickle DL’s funny bone, something wiil come at you Pavlov style, and as you may have noticed (like LiamC) it can leave epistle Loo-ng bites on the board.

Of a more serious nature is the glacial movement of the tale. At 30 hours short of 7 weeks, readers have been milling around like the characters in the strip, very concious of the fact that nothing of consequence is happening for yet another day. Meaningful progress in Dick Tracy “stood still”!
Here is an Artist who can convey the “illusion” of movement by having someone point through the side-line of a panel and then by Friday you start to realize, NOTHING has really happenned. He has been ‘whistleing’ the same tune now for his readers for 7 weeks. NO crime, NO villain, NO suspense,(unless you define it as waiting weeks for something to ‘happen’ (?) There is NO substance and really NOTHING to peak your interest!

With his permission I’ll end the post the way Matt started his …

“Today’s post is a particularly good example of Dick Locher’s story telling abilities.”

Right on Matt, you continue to do what you do best, you hit that ‘nail’ right on the ‘head’ again! Thanks! I appreciate your insight!
James7344 said, 9 months ago

I’ve come to the conclusion that Dick Locher wants a life, and that if you draw sloppy and only advance the plot one frame per week, you can knock off a week’s worth of panels in a half hour and go out to dinner every night.
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

By storytelling abilities, I was referring to Dick’s ability to drag a reader’s eye from panel to panel using items in the panel to NATURALLY do so.

Panel to panel storytelling is virtually a lost art among the current crop of comic strip artists, who favor “cool looking panels” at the expense of getting the reader’s eye to move from panel to panel naturally.

Locher, like Gould himself, is a master at this. Chet himself was an ORIGINATOR of it and was among the best in the history of the business. I told “American Profile” as much when they interviewed me fro the 75th Anniversary of the strip.

Sadly, if you are doing it well, the fanboys don’t notice it, and you’ll never receive kudos for it (how many times have you actually heard people praise Chet for his physiclal storytelling abilities?).

One of the reasons that the ‘cut-up’ Blackthorne reprints annoy me so much is that this panel to panel storytelling is interrupted and disjointed on the page because the strips are presented in a format that they were NEVER meant to be presented in. The same goes for many of the “alternative formats” for the Sunday pages that Chet did. The rearranging of the panels screwed up the storytelling.

Locher suffers even on this page, because of the format used to present the Sunday pages. There ought to be three full tiers of panels, with the masthead, the Crimestoppers and the first panel on the the TOP TIER, not the chopped up/art director driven/doesn’t-make-sense fashion that they use right now.

I’m actually amazed that so many people who profess to be such long time readers of the comic strip as so totally and completely oblivious to the most basic conceits of the medium. Have you learned NOTHING from the decades of reading comics?

MPH
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

And–I see everybody that POUNCED on me after Liam posted–and who attempted to take me to task about RESPECTFULLY dealing with other posters–are all back with their same bleeep, dirty tricks and assaults on Dick Locher and the Dick Tracy comic strip.

So sad. So very, very sad.

MPH
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

I’ve come to the conclusion that Dick Locher wants a life, and that if you draw sloppy and only advance the plot one frame per week, you can knock off a week’s worth of panels in a half hour and go out to dinner every night.

I’ve said before and I’ll say again…there is NO POSSIBLE WAY to tell how long it takes to draw a piece of artwork just by LOOKING AT IT. NONE.

What you are doing is “mind reading” in a vain effort to look “cool” to the other fanboys.

Knock it off.

MPH
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

NotNormanChubsyUbsy says:
Can anyone (well, except MPH) explain why Angeldustius is still hanging around the Tracy home?
Anyhoo, there is definitely a nipple protruding in panel one.

If you see a nipple in panel one, you are desperate to see one.

MPH
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

For those who are “waiting” for SOMETHING to happen:

Since the start of the story:

a) Tracy has almost been run down by Dr. Knoll.

b) Tess has announced that she and the neighborhood ladies are going to sell and market their own perfume.

c) A HOUSE EXPLODED!

d) The CIA is V-E-R-Y interested in Dr. Knoll for reasons yet to be revealed.

e) Was it the perfume that exploded or was it something else? We don’t know yet. That has yet to be uncovered.

f) Dr. Knoll is desperate to get back to his lab, but why? Is he hiding some secret? Does he not want the authorities to see discover something? Is he just crazy?

g) We’ve been introduced to the character of Angelorius. We don’t know much about her yet other than she is an opportunist who seems to have taken advantage of Tess and her friends. More to be revealed.

So, don’t say that NOTHING has happened. Plenty has happened. Maybe not at the pace you’d like, but PLENTY has happened.

MPH
Margueritem said, 9 months ago

Feast your eyes with some beautiful art work-

http://tinyurl.com/6ojg4g
wndrwrthg said, 9 months ago

Interim report on case # 325980-45- Dr. Matthew H. Noll

On 12-18-08, I contacted Diet Smith of Diet Smith Industries to ascertain the whereabouts of one Dr. Matthew H. Noll, who is considered to be a “menace to society“. During the course of the next several days, I was able to discover that Diet Smith does not “keep track of ex-employees“. As I stated in an earlier phone conversation with my supervisor concerning Dr. Noll, “his last venture led to a massive explosion with injuries”. In a follow up conversation that took place on 01-02-09 I informed “Chief” Liam that “he’s out of control”, “he makes things explode”. As of this date, “we only have one small lead to his whereabouts“, “he previously worked for Diet Smith Industries“, in what capacity we do not know. “My plan is to document all explosions in the U.S., the let the computer look for a pattern and sniff out the professors hideout“.” My computer will locate the bomber”.
Report ends.
Signed,
Special Agent J. K. Cosgrove
Sydney Phillips said, 9 months ago

bassmanbob, I’m glad Liam didn’t “act” on your suggestion to throw you (and Matt) off the board. Today’s chapter was another classic. I liked the “inovation” of the interaction between Angelorious and Dick Locher. It’s the sort of welcome change or “surprise” that does not occur in the Dick Tracy strip anymore.
Speaking of Matt I’ve learned to tolorate his worship of Locher’s artistic human presentations. But the lad still worries me, and I have to be concerNed about the sort of interaction he has had with the opposite sex when he can find that nipple on the upper left hand side of a breast, and pointing in the wrong direction is normal (?) But then anyone who can call female posters here “wags”, tries to sell hair shirts and red sweaters in aisle 5 and fantacises about wife beatings must realy have a pernicious case of “insomia”
And yes, I know every one wishes he would shut up and go to sleep.

Now back to your “book”. Can I make a guess that in an upcoming chapter you’ll have Dr. Noll kidnap Angelorious and hold her captive as a Genie in a bottle(?)
Just as ‘possible’ as those Robots with WHEELS that easily negotiated steps and doors ‘half’ their height
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

margueritem says:
Feast your eyes with some beautiful art work-
http://tinyurl.com/6ojg4g

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and that is all I’m going to say.

Most definitely not my cuppa.

MPH
MrBriberysShrunkenHeads said, 9 months ago

I like today’s strip. Speaking of mind reading, DT has deduced that it was perfume that blew up, as when we last heard he was pondering why it smelled like perfume. I like how most of the action takes place outside of the strip, like Infinite Jest with less footnotes. There must have been many unused panels we are not being shown; these will be collectors items.

It been several days since the explosion and Angelodorous is scheming against Tess (in the next room) from her new headquarters in Jrs old room, with Dr Noll, with whom she shares Jr’s old bunkbed. She shares the bunkbed. Dr Noll agrees, holding with outstretched arms, two test tubes, next to her with one eye open. It will be shown again Weds and Thurs to remind us how dangerous he is. Tess wanted him to feel at home, but did have trepidation at Dr Noll bringing his chemistry set with him. Conflict!

Mini-cliffhanger indeed! What could have caused the explosion? It could not be because the mad scientist was not titratring his liquids as most chemists do, nor was he using a chemical hood. This is very dangerous and DT should be careful entering the rickety house. Too bad Traz-E could not perform this function for him. Irony!
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

Sydney Phillips says:
bassmanbob, I’m glad Liam didn’t “act” on your suggestion to throw you (and Matt) off the board. Today’s chapter was another classic. I liked the “inovation” of the interaction between Angelorious and Dick Locher. It’s the sort of welcome change or “surprise” that does not occur in the Dick Tracy strip anymore.
Speaking of Matt I’ve learned to tolorate his worship of Locher’s artistic human presentations. But the lad still worries me, and I have to be concerNed about the sort of interaction he has had with the opposite sex when he can find that nipple on the upper left hand side of a breast, and pointing in the wrong direction is normal (?) But then anyone who can call female posters here “wags”, tries to sell hair shirts and red sweaters in aisle 5 and fantacises about wife beatings must realy have a pernicious case of “insomia”
And yes, I know every one wishes he would shut up and go to sleep.
Now back to your “book”. Can I make a guess that in an upcoming chapter you’ll have Dr. Noll kidnap Angelorious and hold her captive as a Genie in a bottle(?)
Just as ‘possible’ as those Robots with WHEELS that easily negotiated steps and doors ‘half’ their height

Sydney:

I do NOT exclusively refer to female posters as “wags”. That’s a lie and you know it.

I DO NOT FANTASIZE ABOUT BEATING WIFES/WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!! I find that type of behavior REPREHENSIBLE and UNFORGIVABLE and believe that ANY MAN who raises his hand at a WOMAN, FOR ANY REASON ought to be relieved of his LIFE by an deputized agent of the law within range!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And–go look at some breasts in real life Sydney and look at them from a three-quarter profile. Google it on the internet…there are plent of pictures of disrobed ladies to look at. Especially if her breasts are man made, then anything is possible with the placement of the nipple. GO LOOK.

Mostly, I’d appreciate you removing your comments as I outlined above.

MPH
MrBriberysShrunkenHeads said, 9 months ago

We will learn much more about Angelodorous over the years it takes to complete this story. There is so much happening off-strip it makes the actual strip inconsequential. If only we knew!
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

And–once again–we have “fans” of the strip here degrading it, devaluing it, mocking it, and basically treating it with ZERO respect.

All I can imagine is that you must all be ashamed to read comics at your age and that you are embarrassed by it, so you feel the need to mock and make fun of and degrade it to make yourselves feel better.

That is a sad, sad, lonely existence.

I pity each of you.

MPH
MrBriberysShrunkenHeads said, 9 months ago

I do not intend to mock the strip but I do resent The Editors who refuse to do anything to improve the current strips limitations that force all the action to implied.
Sydney Phillips said, 9 months ago

Matt, As someone who is waiting for “SOMETHING” to happen your list of events is staggeringly small.
The first one happened “off camera” and why does it take a whole WEEK for every “pinch” of progress to materialize? Half of Cosgrove’s appearances is time wasting!
I’m almost tempted to take Locher’s strips, cut them up, and reasemble them with a few word changes. Showing how easy it would have been to have arrived at the very same point some THREE weeks ago. Try it, and learn a useful NEW skill!
James7344’s exagerated observation is quite correct. No need to go into that diversionarry “mumbo jumbo” of “treasured homilies” saying how long it takes an srtist to “draw” something. What James is saying IS, it’s taking too darned long!!
Dypak said, 9 months ago

Dypak says:
That explains alot.
Posted: 25 minutes ago Flag

So…you don’t defend your friends? Stick up for your pals? Fight for justice? Defend the underdog?

You’ve learned NOTHING from Dick Tracy, I see.

MPH
——————-
A post from yesterday. Notice the flag, Yay! I’m part of the club, thanks MPH. I consider it a badge of honor to be flagged by someone with such a complete lack of social grace.

Matty ole boy, do you hop up and down and clap your little hands together when you think of these cute little things to say? Let me explain one thing to you, listen closely now. We all learned to love DT when we were kids. When it was fun. Very few kids alive today would give it a second glance. NOT because the kids don’t understand or care but because DT, as it is written and drawn today, is boring, poorly plotted and poorly drawn. It is nothing compared to the DT of yesterday. We are all locked in our common disappointment with the strip. And you just don’t get it. When we’re gone there will no one left to care about the Dick Tracy that used to stand up for all those things that you claim to care about. You know what fellah? If Dick Tracy were a real live person he’d completely ignore your sad little self. Go ahead and flag that, buddy boy.
Jeff Kersten said, 9 months ago

Marguiritem:

I enjoyed the Pigborn link immensely. The art IS stunningly beautiful. I’ve long been a believer that the internet is the future of this business and I’m glad to see a creator who is using the medium to expand the horizons. Thanks for sharing!
Margueritem said, 9 months ago

Jeff Kersten says:

Marguiritem:

I enjoyed the Pigborn link immensely. The art IS stunningly beautiful. I’ve long been a believer that the internet is the future of this business and I’m glad to see a creator who is using the medium to expand the horizons. Thanks for sharing!

Jeff, I’m glad you liked it. Did you see his sketch? It follows the main cartoon.
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

Dypak says:
Dypak says:
That explains alot.
Posted: 25 minutes ago Flag
So…you don’t defend your friends? Stick up for your pals? Fight for justice? Defend the underdog?
You’ve learned NOTHING from Dick Tracy, I see.
MPH
——————-
A post from yesterday. Notice the flag, Yay! I’m part of the club, thanks MPH. I consider it a badge of honor to be flagged by someone with such a complete lack of social grace.
Matty ole boy, do you hop up and down and clap your little hands together when you think of these cute little things to say? Let me explain one thing to you, listen closely now. We all learned to love DT when we were kids. When it was fun. Very few kids alive today would give it a second glance. NOT because the kids don’t understand or care but because DT, as it is written and drawn today, is boring, poorly plotted and poorly drawn. It is nothing compared to the DT of yesterday. We are all locked in our common disappointment with the strip. And you just don’t get it. When we’re gone there will no one left to care about the Dick Tracy that used to stand up for all those things that you claim to care about. You know what fellah? If Dick Tracy were a real live person he’d completely ignore your sad little self. Go ahead and flag that, buddy boy.
Posted: 29 minutes ago Flagged

Which has absolutely NOTHING TO DO with what I wrote to you. Nice try with the debater’s trick.

Come back when you can play the game with the big boys.

MPH
Jeff Kersten said, 9 months ago

I didn’t check out the sketch earlier, but how he went from THAT to the final product, regardless of his employing technology to accomplish it, was impressive.

You know I’m old-fashioned when it comes to the original art – I like using the quill pen and brush with India ink and color using watercolors, but I’m wholly impressed with the results of his work. I think traditionalists biggest fear is that cartooning will devolve away from the old tools of the trade and move more towards employing technology to accomplish the result. Despite this healthy debate, I’m glad there are creator’s showing us all how effectively the internet can be used to break the boundaries we’ve been encountering in the PRINT medium for far too long.

Thanks again, Marguiritem!
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

Sydney Phillips says:
Matt, As someone who is waiting for “SOMETHING” to happen your list of events is staggeringly small.
The first one happened “off camera” and why does it take a whole WEEK for every “pinch” of progress to materialize? Half of Cosgrove’s appearances is time wasting!
I’m almost tempted to take Locher’s strips, cut them up, and reasemble them with a few word changes. Showing how easy it would have been to have arrived at the very same point some THREE weeks ago. Try it, and learn a useful NEW skill!
James7344’s exagerated observation is quite correct. No need to go into that diversionarry “mumbo jumbo” of “treasured homilies” saying how long it takes an srtist to “draw” something. What James is saying IS, it’s taking too darned long!!

No, Sydney, James made a specific reference to how long it takes Locher to draw the strip.

You cannot tell by looking at a piece of art how long it took to draw it. It is IMPOSSIBLE, even for a trained artist.

MPH
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

bassmanbob says:
Matthew Hansel says:
And–once again–we have “fans” of the strip here degrading it, devaluing it, mocking it, and basically treating it with ZERO respect.
All I can imagine is that you must all be ashamed to read comics at your age and that you are embarrassed by it, so you feel the need to mock and make fun of and degrade it to make yourselves feel better.
That is a sad, sad, lonely existence.
I pity each of you.
MPH
Posted: 2009-01-27T17:00:58Z Flag
Matthew, Is it possible I’m not trying to “degrade, devalue, mock, or treat the strip with “ZERO respect” but I’m only trying to have a little fun? Matthew, have you forgotten what it means to have fun? to be silly? to laugh? To not take everything so serious? I bet Mr. Locher still remembers.
To repeat your words as mine-
“That is a sad, sad, lonely existence.
I pity you”.
BB

If you respect something, bassmanbob, you do NOT mock and humiliate it in a public forum, or jump on a bandwagon with a bunch of basement dwellers to enjoy a gay chorus of “let’s see how much fun we can make of the Dick Tracy comic strip today”.

See, this strip is SOMEBODY’S life work. Somebody created it. For some insignificant fanboy to ENDLESSLY feel the need to mock and disrespect it, for the sole purpose of looking cool to a bunch of anonymous cowards on the internet is disrespectful.

If you have a PERSONAL relationship with the author, I might concede the point that you could have a little “fun” with him, but I know that you are not PERSONAL friends with him. You are an observe that GETS to read the strip FOR FREE everyday. If you are a fan of the strip, I would expect that you would read it and enjoy it. Comment when you think something is done particularly well. Comment, RESPECTFULLY, if you do not understand something or if something is confusing to you. BUT YOU DO NOT post day in and day out and ruthlessly disrespectful mockery of the strip.

And–I grow tired of the “it’s tough love” argument. That’s a coward’s argument. That’s a non-thinking man’s argument. That’s a easy way out argument.

Again I ask you, do you beat your wife to show her how much you love her?

MPH
Margueritem said, 9 months ago

Jeff Kersten says:

I didn’t check out the sketch earlier, but how he went from THAT to the final product, regardless of his employing technology to accomplish it, was impressive.

Two of his fans will be meeting with him at a Con in New York, next month, I believe. They will be asking about how he goes from the sketches to the finished panels. It will make for interesting reading. If you’d like, I’ll let you know when the information appears.
Jeff Kersten said, 9 months ago

I’m working that week in Brooklyn and I’m hoping to get the opportunity to visit the Con in-person. I’d enjoy meeting this guy and hearing more about his work. Thanks for the info.
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

Jeff Kersten says:
I didn’t check out the sketch earlier, but how he went from THAT to the final product, regardless of his employing technology to accomplish it, was impressive.
You know I’m old-fashioned when it comes to the original art – I like using the quill pen and brush with India ink and color using watercolors, but I’m wholly impressed with the results of his work. I think traditionalists biggest fear is that cartooning will devolve away from the old tools of the trade and move more towards employing technology to accomplish the result. Despite this healthy debate, I’m glad there are creator’s showing us all how effectively the internet can be used to break the boundaries we’ve been encountering in the PRINT medium for far too long.
Thanks again, Marguiritem!

I’ve often wondered why SO many cartoonists are afraid to use the computer in their daily production. Photoshop is a TOOL much like India ink and a brush.

There are absolute timesavers by using the computer.

I’m working on a graphic novel and it is a sci-fi book, and I have fallen in love, again, with Photoshop because it allows me to do star fields with a few simple clicks, vs. filling in the areas with ink, letting it dry, getting out the white paint and then creating the star fields.

Also, I’ve recently become a fan of Google’s “SketchUp” program. This has allowed me to “model” the spaceships and then “shoot” them from any angle I wish. It makes the ship’s appearance consistent at all times (and, I just print out the angle I need, then I lightbox it into the final art). It took some time to create the model, but now, I’m able to work fairly quickly when having to draw the ship(s).

It’s kinda like cartoonists who think that using markers is somehow lesser cartooning than using India ink and brushes. Er…um…NO it isn’t. Alex Toth used markers almost exclusively. So does Bruce Timm. So did Gil Kane and a host of others.

Hell, before he went digital, Jeff MacNelly was using ball point pens!

MPH
Jeff Kersten said, 9 months ago

NY Methodist Hospital is a client of my firm. My schedule is pretty booked all 5 days, but I’m hoping that I can get at least an hour or two a couple of day’s that week to wander.
Margueritem said, 9 months ago

Jeff Kersten says:

I’m working that week in Brooklyn and I’m hoping to get the opportunity to visit the Con in-person. I’d enjoy meeting this guy and hearing more about his work. Thanks for the info.

Brooke McEldowney is his name, and you can’t miss him because he’s extremely tall.
Margueritem said, 9 months ago

bassmanbob says:

Marguiritem, I also echo Jeff’s comments! The artwork is breathtaking! Thanks for sharing the link.

BB

My pleasure, It’s too good not to be shared. Be sure to check out the sketch, which immediately follows the finished panels.
Jeff Kersten said, 9 months ago

Perhaps I should have been clearer in my post – the hospital is a client of the firm I contract with, not a client of mine. Regardless, I’m hoping I can find time to attend the Con.
Jeff Kersten said, 9 months ago

I’d enjoy the opportunity to meet you, BMB, if we could work out a visit over coffee or dinner or something.
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

bassmanbob says:
Marguiritem, I also echo Jeff’s comments! The artwork is breathtaking! Thanks for sharing the link.
BB

May I ask exactly what is “breathtaking” about the artwork? I’m not trying to start a fight here and I’m not dissing the artist (he is obviously talented, and very proficient with Photoshop), but this is one of those instances that makes me scratch my head and go “huh”?

Describe, please, in detail, what makes this so unique? What about it, specifically draws you to it?

AND–I’m not picking on bassmanbob, here. This question is open to the board. I’m just using bassmanbob’s comments as the springboard for my comments (I hope he doesn’t mind).

I’m genuinely curious.

MPH
Jeff Kersten said, 9 months ago

As much as I truly love Chicago, the town I’ve called home now for, gosh, I guess I’ve lived here for almost 13 years now, I do enjoy the frequent visits I make to NYC. I always use my work visits for some recreation or research.
Matthew Hansel said, 9 months ago

Jeff Kersten says:
As much as I truly love Chicago, the town I’ve called home now for, gosh, I guess I’ve lived here for almost 13 years now, I do enjoy the frequent visits I make to NYC. I always use my work visits for some recreation or research.

One of these days, I want to make a trip with you. One of the great voids in my life is that I’ve not ever been to NYC. I”d love to go, and would especially cherish the opportunity to go visit the DC Comics offices, the Letterman Show, 9/11 memorial, and a few cartoonists friends that live in town.

Someday.

MPH
Jeff Kersten said, 9 months ago

It is well worth the trip, Matt. You won’t be disappointed. My biggest struggle during my visits is deciding what NOT to go and see. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the most impressive collections I have ever encountered in my life. I highly recommend it!
Jeff Kersten said, 9 months ago

Plus, NY City has some of the coolest comic book stores I’ve ever visited. Many of them take a much broader view in what falls within this category and their offerings are definitive. Even Graham Cracker Comics would be given a run for their money!