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| Well someone can't draw bandages. |
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| I love the Hippity Hop (Rapper's Delight) |
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| Snake is SO inaccurate. Why doesn't the rabbit run when it sees a 200 ft long snake coming for it? |
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| I hate side-views with a fiery passion. A fiery penis-shaped passion. |
Artists always get the question, "Who are your influences?" and I feel I've drawn (ba-dum-chhh!) from pretty much every piece of art I've seen, one way or another. Obviously Superman carving penises isn't exactly Rembrandt, but using Superman that way and there being a penis joke (originally it was going to be a fist, but then I realized I had the potential for my first dick joke) was heavily influenced by SMBC, though less well-drawn.
When I came up with the idea for the Hippity Hop comic, I definitely visualized it as a sort of Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes. Though the disproportions were due to being terrible at drawing children... One summer I checked out both anthologies from the library and read every single strip, it was fantastic. There are a couple of these, but the one I kept thinking about for this comic was this one. Obviously Rapper's Delight is not the 1812 overture, but as I always say (though in person I usually yell), all music is just a modified scale, so who cares what kind of music you like (though incidently I like both of those)?
I suppose you could say that the first comic here is in the style of Far Side, another comic I absolutely adore. I've ready almost all of those, partly through a Comic-A-Day calendar I got for Hanukkah freshman year, and partly through 10th anniversary anthology. I was emailing back and forth for a bit with the webcomicker of Skidmore Bluffs and he was saying that while you might worry you're stealing the style, almost everyone's style is borrowed from one place or another. Then he mentioned someone following in Picasso's footsteps but I didn't know who that was.
So I suppose what I'm saying is that everything every breath you take, every move you make, was borrowed in some part from other ideas, which is okay as long as it's not, "Ahoy, I'm stealing this comic and everything about it!" For me it's much more of, "Doo dee doo dee doo, working on this comic! Huh, this is a lot like blah blah blah". Also, that Police song is really creepy.
