Here's the last page of our interpretation of Jack London's That Spot...

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:12:39 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's the next page of the Team Sputnik version of Jack London's short story That Spot...

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:14:17 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

This is page eight of Jack London's humorous short story That Spot, written by Antonella and drawn by me...

Antonella didn't specify in the script how Spot was supposed to have freed himself from the tree. I surmised that he must have stunned a passing beaver.

Monday, May 21, 2007 10:16:28 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here we go with page 7 of Jack London's That Spot, adapted by Antonella and drawn by yours truly...

Sunday, May 20, 2007 10:00:58 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

This is page six of our take on Jack London's humorous short story That Spot, written by Antonella and drawn by me...

This page took ages to draw, but I loved doing all the different characters in the bottom frame. The most difficult part, surprisingly, was drawing the lettering on the leaves of the calendar. I only had Photoshop 4.0 at the time, which has a transform function for distorting type, but it's a bit limited. I have a more advanced version of Photoshop now and stripping in the lettering would have been a doddle, but I think in this case I like the way it turned out, and given a choice, I think I would still have chosen to draw the lettering by hand.

Saturday, May 19, 2007 10:13:38 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's page five of the Team Sputnik version of Jack London's short story, That Spot...

Quick pop quiz: who is the famous mountie depicted in frame four?

Friday, May 18, 2007 10:34:15 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's page four of That Spot, written by Antonella and drawn by me, based on a short story by Jack London...

This is the first page I'm really happy with (it always takes me a couple of pages to 'settle down' when I'm drawing a strip). The men are starting to look right and I'm getting the hang of the dog. I gradually made the two men scruffier and dirtier as the strip progressed, giving the impression I hope of them having spent years in the outback in locations with no proper bathing facilities.

The main problem I had with this strip was finding the best way to portray the dog's character. He's a chancer, a criminal type who exploits all around him and has nothing but contempt for everyone but himself. A sociopath who feels no connection with society, and has found that he can do whatever he likes because nobody can beat him. In the end I got the 'mood' of the character by channelling a bully who made mine and others' lives miserable at my school. He didn't have a facial scar (although he did smoke), but the contemptuous expression I've given the dog belongs to him. Congratulations mate, you've been immortalised as a dog.

Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:02:03 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

This is page three of our strip, That Spot, based on a short story by Jack London, written by Antonella and drawn by me...

Wednesday, May 16, 2007 12:55:51 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

This is the second page of Jack London's That Spot, adapted by Antonella and drawn by Nick...

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:53:34 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

...and here, as promised, with only a light delay due to my not being able to find the relevant files on either of our computers or any of our large collection of backup disks, is the Team Sputnik version of That Spot, based on a story by Jack London, written by Antonella, drawn by Nick, first published in Graphic Classics vol. 5, 2nd edition...

...don't worry, it gets better!

Monday, May 14, 2007 7:55:26 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0]