#72 Re: adam kubert+brian bendis+mark millar=ultimate ff4
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Adam Kubert is doing some pretty stuff. I've stolen a couple of shots from an upcoming issue. Look at the absolute clarity of the pencilled work. Some of these might as well be grey printed pages. Adam's been on my personal wishlist of artists forever. He actually did a stylistic thing on these issues that threw me at first. He's quartered every page. I was writing a standard loping kind of five panels a page, to give him room to breathe, but he came up with this formal conceit -- it's about four people, so we're doing four panels a page. He took in elements from the "hanging panels" to ensure the storytelling still worked and the dialogue wasn't floating loose, and damn if it doesn't work.
The surprises are what makes this kind of work fun. Like seeing the first pages from my first UFF arc, and finding that Stuart Immonen had pared away something like 70% of his usual linework, just razoring everything away to the best-fitting line. Which is incredibly difficult. I remember the artist Dave Harwood talking about the fondly-remembered strip GEORGETTE that Eddie Campbell wrote. Eddie showed him old comic strips by the likes of George McManus, art in the mode of Herge's TINTIN -- what the Europeans call ligne clair, the clear line. With five lines, you can fake it, suggest it, look for ways to hide the bits you don't like. With one line, there is absolutely no room to fudge it. Don't be fooled by Stuart's apparent loose and easy line. This is bloody hard work. Silly bastard.