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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: TVC15 on January 16, 2008, 02:37:42 PM

Title: I want to make my own Gil Thorp-esque comic
Post by: TVC15 on January 16, 2008, 02:37:42 PM: Where do I start?

(http://joshreads.com/images/08/01/i080115gilthorp.gif)

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I’m pretty sure this is the most effort ever put into painting some kind of psychological portrait of a Gil Thorp character. Usually these demented cubist weirdoes just do bizarre stuff like cut off their legs or hit themselves in the back of the head with a stick without any obvious motivation, but for some reason we’re getting the full backstory on what makes the A-Train tick. Sure, it’s nothing ground-breaking — oh my God, a star high school athlete is kind of competitive! — but I have to admit to really liking the final flashback panel, where Andrew savagely crumples up his own paper when he discovers that his girlfriend is smarter than he is. His twisted, angry face makes it look like this is the moment when Lex Luthor decided to become a genius supervillain. “I’ll show her who knows more about American history … when I rule America! MOO ha ha!”

I can do this. I can do this and better. I think the formula is somewhere between dada and pop art. Give me some ideas here.

I was going to say I can't do high school sports because I hate sports, but then I thought, "Hey, wouldn't that mean sports are about the most anti thing I can do, thus making it rather dada?" But then I figured that I can't directly rip off Gil Thorp like that. There are always high school art fegs? Or maybe like Charlotte Simmons-inspired high school cheerleaders. That would be very anti for me, too.
Title: Re: I want to make my own Gil Thorp-esque comic
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on January 16, 2008, 02:55:32 PM: make it about people who work at a computer company called Microchinko
Title: Re: I want to make my own Gil Thorp-esque comic
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on January 16, 2008, 03:00:02 PM: actually I think a good Gil Thorp venue would be professional cheffery
Title: Re: I want to make my own Gil Thorp-esque comic
Post by: Tauntaun on January 16, 2008, 06:33:23 PM: Make it aboooot EB.
Title: Re: I want to make my own Gil Thorp-esque comic
Post by: TVC15 on January 16, 2008, 06:39:31 PM: They are really working this competitive angle. The comic is getting TENSE AND AWESOME

(http://images.chron.com/apps/comics/images/2008/1/16/Gil_Thorp.91.g.gif)

Are we about to see some sort of Gil Thorp-related school shooting? I can only hope so.
Title: Re: I want to make my own Gil Thorp-esque comic
Post by: TVC15 on January 16, 2008, 06:44:40 PM: Alright, what the fuck is this?

(http://images.chron.com/apps/comics/images/2008/1/11/Gil_Thorp.733.g.gif)

What is wrong with the dude that writes this? He has Awesome Disease or something.
Title: Re: I want to make my own Gil Thorp-esque comic
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 16, 2008, 06:53:23 PM: What is this, an all-transsexual comic? JAWS JAWS EVERYWHERE
Title: Re: I want to make my own Gil Thorp-esque comic
Post by: TVC15 on January 16, 2008, 06:54:30 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on January 16, 2008, 06:53:23 PM
What is this, an all-transsexual comic? JAWS JAWS EVERYWHERE
(http://images.chron.com/apps/comics/images/2006/12/28/Gil_Thorp.783.g.gif)
Title: Re: I want to make my own Gil Thorp-esque comic
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 16, 2008, 07:03:23 PM: ........................
Title: Re: I want to make my own Gil Thorp-esque comic
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 16, 2008, 07:34:12 PM: He's like the Rob Liefield of faces
Title: Re: I want to make my own Gil Thorp-esque comic
Post by: Junpei the Tracer! on January 16, 2008, 07:38:16 PM: He can draw better than me.
Title: Re: I want to make my own Gil Thorp-esque comic
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 16, 2008, 07:39:09 PM: I can draw better than you
Title: Re: I want to make my own Gil Thorp-esque comic
Post by: TVC15 on January 16, 2008, 08:08:02 PM: Sometimes there are perods of several days where I can't tell if the sports game I am watching is men's or women's.