What are four comics you don’t only like, you draw inspiration from? #Artsky
(Calvin and Hobbes and peanuts are also givens, but like, who doesn’t say those?)
There are quite a few strips that I feel are great examples of comic strip art that sadly I just can’t get into them. Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, Pogo…all worth seeking out and studying, especially if one is new to comic strips.
True. Sometimes something works for you, sometimes it doesn’t. (I have the advantage of reading all of those strips but Pogo when they were still in newspapers. Pogo I got out of the library in the old book collections.)
I have no idea what Moomin is up to with Little My on that cover and I probably don't want to know. But he looks like he's been bullied into housebreaking with a giant snake. (I have never read the comics but I would like to.)
I fell behind on it, need to catch up, but have you read any of the Bloom County revival? It can be hit or miss, just like Berkeley's work kinda is in general, but I enjoyed it, and LOVED the Calvin and Hobbes crossover arc.
It's interesting in that, instead of following up on Opus, it instead goes for like, a time shift forward, letting Outland and Opus exist in their own branch. Which is fine with me, because while Opus was a mixed bag (and Outland was largely bleh), it had a pretty sweet little ending of its own.
Right, right! So the new Bloom County is like, an AU, where the original cast get transported from the end of the 80's to the mid-10's onwards. Berkeley's actual reason for coming back to it was actually in reaction to his disappointment with the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, his favorite book.
