I was a youngster back then (we had Beatlemania in my timeline, and Freddie was just a comical novelty), so I’m really enjoying this story. The colouring is brilliant: you have captured exactly how the early sixties really looked. Fab!
Thanks Ken, I looked at 60s British comics to try to get a look that felt right – a lot of them were drawn by Spanish artists and were very stylish. I can never capture their line but I tried to integrate use of solid blacks and negative space.
Carlos Gimenez was one of those Spanish artists working in a studio, his series “The professionals” is all about those years. Probably not available in English. French maybe.
17 comments on “Oof”
Andrew Hall
Shelley, I’m stealing that line any time that is said to me for the rest of my life!
Rabisch
A very good spectacle. But the enemy is the enemy! Maybe…
David Millians
In this timeline, is Freddie taller? Or is ‘Jane’ shorter than Shelley? And how tall is Paul?
Algebra and the transitive property messed me up for life.
/first time poster, long time reader
//Do more Robert Cop after this, please.
destroyhistory
I drew him taller than he was in real life because I had no idea how tall he was in real life
Alan Unsworth
Freddie was about five foot three, and slender — a perfect size for getting tossed about by John Lennon, in fact.
Chas
Also a good size for doing the Freddy.
Chas
… or the Freddie.
Joe King
Have you seen the Freddie? There is no good size for doing the Freddie.
David
Wait…what… Freddie is a real person? And you could actually “do the Freddie?” … TO YOUTUBE!
Ken
I was a youngster back then (we had Beatlemania in my timeline, and Freddie was just a comical novelty), so I’m really enjoying this story. The colouring is brilliant: you have captured exactly how the early sixties really looked. Fab!
destroyhistory
Thanks Ken, I looked at 60s British comics to try to get a look that felt right – a lot of them were drawn by Spanish artists and were very stylish. I can never capture their line but I tried to integrate use of solid blacks and negative space.
Nestor
Carlos Gimenez was one of those Spanish artists working in a studio, his series “The professionals” is all about those years. Probably not available in English. French maybe.
FilmFan1971
The stars disappearing is a lovely touch.
Phil Masters
Love the increasingly baroque ’60s British euphemisms for pizza.
(And I’ve just realised that term may be considered misleading at some level, because we’re now closer to the 2060s than to the 1960s. Oww.)
Martronicus
Freddie doesn’t seem like Shelley’s type. I mean he’s 100 lbs shy of a Bruno.
PlasticInsect
Paul objects to spectacles of any kind.
dennis
A Finnish spectacle
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