Aaargh. I've not slept properly for weeks and feel like a shuffling zombie. I started finally reading Paul Levitz's 75 Years of DC Comics yesterday (from over £100 down to £75 in an Amazon sale and after vouchers I'd earned, the book only cost me £30 or so, bargain!) but soon realised I have no easy way of doing so: it's so hefty it's hard to even lift so I have had to open it in an armchair and read it kneeling!
Anyway, as threatened, here's the coloured Mucha style pic and the jaguar, a quick five minute colour job...
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Nice work as always, makes me want to write a jaguar into TMSAV.
I find reading Omnibuses (Ominibi?) gives me wrist-ache and bruised knees so I dread to think how I'd cope with Levitz's tome.
I love wildlife but I'm not great at drawing them, I was stumped for something to ink at really short notice so just grabbed my current calender for desperate inspiration! :)
I've never lashed out on an omnibus (though was tempted by the Starman ones, which are coming out in softcover, and if I had the cash, space and not the issues elsewhere, I'd be tempted by the New X-Men, New Teen Titans and Davis Captain Britain doorstoppers) so don't know how tricky they are to read. (Watched some youtube clips tho and know the Marvel ones are far better produced than the DC ones).
To read the Levitz boo, I have to open it in an armchair to support it and read it kneeling from the floor...I have a drawing desk that may make more sense but I don't even draw at it so armchair it is...
I have to read an omnibus on my lap, sitting up in bed. They're too heavy to hold up as you would a normal book. I do like them though, the larger pages and (on 60s omnibii at least) old letters pages etc. I don't have many - just the Amazing Spider-Man ones released so far and the recent Untold Tales of Spidey... plus the first Captain America collection and Secret Wars II which I bought because they were really cheap at the time... though I haven't read either yet. I'd like to get the Byrne FF one but not until I've got a job!
Are the Marvel ones recoloured? The DC Archive Editions had recoloured flat colours, not full modern computer styles, and it works really well on the gloss paper(except for a few glaring horrible choices).
I think the marvel masterworks are now recoloured or maybe it's just the superior paper that looks spiffy..
Yeah, the colour has been "reconstructed" which I guess means they've stuck to the original colours but redone them because they're reworking the books from the original (uncoloured) art plates. The glossy paper is far superior to DC hardbacks though - I still can't get over how disappointed I was with the Justice League (Giffen / DeMatteis) hardbacks.
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