I can't even look at a page today decided to wash my blues away with booze last night stupid idea -wish I wasn't alone all the time-my birthday is next Thursday gonna be 49 so not quite 50 just yet but you think about all the things that haven't happened and it brings me down sometimes but last couple of monthes have been very productive -and I'm happy doing these pages find some kind of inner peace when I'm colouring away - Story by Gerry "Rogue Trooper" Day Art by Mike "Darkies Mob" Western- Lover Boys story is very sad as it progresses -but here's his debut very Clark Gable and Private Walker at the same time
May start new blog somewhere else especially for my colour projects barely any views here which frustrates me I'll have to figure out where -but things have gotta change ,
How I spent last Friday -colouring this Beauty from 1981-wanted to get the Norts and Southers in as they're a bit of a orange blur in the original -I'll leave it to Mr H to explain Rogue (should be the voice of the BBC but we just see a globe -just like the old days )
Rogues the reason I got into 2000ad and thats possibly because he looked liked he belonged in Battle and Gerry Finley Day wrote many Battle stories including The Sarge which I've been colouring over these last few monthes -Here's his co creator Dave Gibbons who I saw but never met at a comics convention never ending cue -talked to Bryan Talbot, Gilbert Shelton and John M Burns instead - but a total legend so I can understand long cue but was a bit mad with him as The Originals was very mmuch like my Character Jonah Jacks and the future mod thing -although his way better drawn and written -I think I did Jonah back in 98 so way before cept barely anyone saw it lol
but interviews great nice to know Americans know about Battle and Action now,and they let Dave speak -always better to let who you're interviewing talk,,,
Really hope the Rogue Trooper movies still on -may work better as a streaming series takes a while for him to hunt down The Traitor General -sad that plotline fizzeled out -should of kept Gerry writing it although did appreciate the lovely Steve Dillion art in The Hit series but Rogue for me was Gerry writing the character.hope he got the dosh from the game that came out in the 2000's
Onto One Eyed Jack By John Wagner and John Cooper originally printed in 1975 in a comic called Valiant -With this thought I'd go back to the 70's as I'm kind of stuck in the 40s and early 20th century lately -but Jack I lived through those times although I was a bairn then -since that time seen the Dirty Harry Movies , Seen Mean Streets and Taxi Driver listened to The Ramones,The Dolls Talking Heads Television and Blondie so 70's New Yorks a mythical place to me now so seemed like a fun idea to give Jack a lick of colour
Charley deffo the sharpest cat in this pic -although appreciate Keefs tidy grunge look.
Had to post something here Noise and Sounds -working on multiple stories may revert to a page a day instead but an interesting experiment -One stories set in 70's New York the other 22nd Century (just about) whilst right now I'm trying to recapture a Sicilian village back in 1943 -actually beats been stuck on a game console all day.;Heres a sprinkling of Dredd pages I've been working on lately tried to varie styles of colouring for each story -I think Brendan McCarthy in annuals when I think Dreddocolor.
I will totally redo The first image though need the right scan as the use of Typography was better than mine -couldn't finnish page due to technical diffulculties but happy so far with the Mick McMahon pages -just need to sort out Spikes arm -but nice fun project inbetween realistic war stories.-good place to let imagination take off the Dreddverse / Millsverse
