Sunday, December 17, 2006

Smogy Boy





Long time ago I did this one ,it was somehow autobiographical-graphical approach to
film noir .The hero was rat in rats land and it is the story of diplomatic immunity ,love ,
cannibalism and very dark inking with Windsor & Newton series 7 brushes . People like it.
It was darkly funny and somehow my life in Zagreb ,Croatia ,former Yugoslavia was described
there. At that time I worked in social security company translating the files of injuries at
work to the numeric codes for the electronic files. Sometimes it was almost like Kafka ,
for example : in the factory restaurant somebody accidentally put spoon in his eye ,
or one factory worker is living in deserted bus near the factory .It was three of us in the office ,
all heavy smokers ,litres of black Turkish coffee. Me ,aspiring comic book artist ,older lady ,she was knitting all the time and skinny ,nervous guy reading sports journals all the time ,
he had his vocabulary ,the cigarettes were smoking sticks ,the coffee was black good smelling liquid ,he telephone was talking box etc.
The work was easy and I had some time to develop this.
It was published in eight countries ,sharing is everything .

4 comments:

DELA said...

Skoro se dogodilo ,ali nesto zapelo oko ljudskog faktora.

Andrew Glazebrook said...

Brilliant work as usual !

DELA said...

Andrew, Thank you very much

Anonymous said...

Hi, I always have been a fan of that comic...did you ever finalize a sequel? The pages on this page look new to me....! Best regards from Germany, Frankfurt...the Comic was brillant!