Street Angel Parody Shocker!
Over on Shawn Hoke's
"The
Wall" forum, Jim Rugg stops by to clarify what his intention was
with
that back cover:
I'm not sure what you mean by
joke? It's really going to be the back cover of issue 1.
I once did a mini comic called StrikeForce:
Bigfoot (a color version is
available at Modern Tales Longplay) and needed 3 pages to round out the
signatures. So I did fake pinups that aped the styles of Julie Doucet,
Mike Mignola, and Rob Liefeld. People seemed to get a kick out of them
and I enjoyed doing them.
http://www.awefulbooks.com/rugg/html/notmignola.htm
http://www.awefulbooks.com/rugg/html/notdoucet.htm
http://www.awefulbooks.com/rugg/html/notliefeld.htm
For Street Angel I couldn't decide on what to
do with the back covers.
I like seeing guest pinups. So I decided to ape various cartoonists'
styles for the back covers. Issue 1 is a Jim Lee ape because Jim Lee
drew the highest selling comic of last year. Issue 2 is Dan Clowes. I
haven't decided on issue 3 yet (I draw the covers after the interiors
are all finished).
The Jim Lee maybe isn't as Jim Lee-esque as it
should be. Everyone
seems to see the Image style more than his particular style. I think I
botched the coloring.
I don't know if I'd call it a joke. Maybe some
poor, unknown
cartoonist's attempt at a cool pinup? Or how about a dedicated,
up-and-coming cartoonist trying to give his readers the best bang for
their comic-book-buying dollar? Or...maybe a...well you get the idea.
Is anyone offended by it?
Jim says that he's going to be checking back in
that thread to answer any questions people might have about Street
Angel, so stop over and chat with the man! (Me, I want to
know if we'll be seeing a basketball match between the pirates and the
ninjas. Something like that would have the potential to rival the
Comedy Gold Standard of Monty Python's soccer
match between the
Greek and the German philosophers.)
