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Re: can i get some advice?

Posted By: MACK!
Date: MON, 10/21/02, 4:55 a.m.

In Response To: can i get some advice? (chris sandford)

Hi Chris,

I remember you. I hope you are doing well. Wow, this post sort of took me by surprise. I remember when I was in high school thinking how great it would be to be able to go to the Kubert School, and it is flattering that my name has been mentioned in your class.

It's kind of a strange question for me to approach because I never begin thinking that I want it to look like me. In fact, I'd probably try to avoid doing a characarature of what people my consider "my look".

Trying to re-use some of the stuff you scrapped may be a good solution. I've found myself in that situation often. After I think something may be finished, I then assess it and look for any weak or boring or unnecasary parts, and I try to fix or eliminate them. So I have often ripped out the good parts and done away with the static stuff, and re-pasted them onto another board. Hopefully in a way that has it's own life and vitality.

The only example that I can think of my working from someone else's script is my DD story with Bendis. So if you keep with the Ellis script that might be helpful to look at. But the other thing to consider is that Bendis wrote it with me in mind.

I did a Grendal story (black/white/red) that Matt Wagner originally wrote for Jon Muth, and I inherited it when Muth got too busy. So that may be an example of working from a script that was not written with you in mind. The question being, how to communicate what is necasary in a way that best supports and breathes your own life in to the script without being a slave to the information you need to convey in a way that could make it stiff or boring.

Hope this helps.

Please give my kindest regards to Joe.

DM

: hello Dave,

: this is chris sandford. i have met you twice; once at
: NY-i gave you a painting i did of ice, and the other
: at last Philly-con.
: anyway, i have an assignment for Joe kubert, in which we
: are to ape a popular comic artist's style. i chose
: you. i found a warren ellis script at his website and
: used that. i did the roughs and showed them to joe.
: problem is i followed the script very closely and i
: guess i lost your "flair" to it. joe said
: your layouts wouldn't have followed the strictness of
: the script, that you would have made it look much
: better. which is true. i just don't know what to do. i
: approached it wrong and i need to do it again.

: i would like to know what you would have done and how i
: could better go about doing the assignment. i am
: thinking i should come up with my own script,
: something that would more directly reflect something
: that you would have done. i am pretty darn familiar
: with your work so i shouldn't have much of a problem,
: but i am running out of time and still don't know what
: to do. i have three pages to work with. what should i
: do? i don't want to straight up copy something you
: have done, i just want to do it HOW you would do it.

: i ripped up what i did. i thought of going the barron
: storey route and take the good elements from the
: destroyed work, and create something from them. i
: don't know.

: well, thanks for your time, sorry this is so long.
: i would greatly appreciate any feed back and even your
: blessing on "ripping off" your style.
: thank you

: chris sandford
: sandman

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