Awesome and excellent, wow...
Note: Whilst simultaneously finding it "excellent & awesome,"
Uh... as Harvey Pekar liked to say, hahaha. 😅
Mate!
Give me your favorite Dabeull tune right away... please?
Thanks. *phew*
It's a GIMP function, a counterpart of an identical PhotoShop tool.
I forget the exact name of the tool, but you start by conceiving a trapezoid, then keep dragging the corners around until things finally look 'square / rectangular.' You also have to adjust for 'fisheye,' normally.
I used to reconstruct backglasses for the virtual pinball scene, and GIMP was precious for this kind of thing.
Somewhere in the archives I believe I have more of the 'Abbey Road' pics. I even have a song to go along with it, if you like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu3kuiChAh8
(Wagon Christ -- Saddic Gladdic)
I simply cannot understand it.
So, this was a person who's just sort of screwing around, branching out, having fun at the time..?
You know, I like to consider myself an "artist" at the peak of times, but in fact I'm just a little boy when I look at Giraud's stuff, right when he's got it going on. He's just.. astonishing.
Oh! Would you mind possibly sharing that cleverness?
Is it like an instance-type issue, or..?
Haha, I think maybe I feel you on that.
Filmation worked so much better when it came to shades of comedy & farce, and for me, there was a tonne of understated comedy & farce in He-Man, hearkining back to lots of H-B farce. (never watched Godzilla personally, have no interest at all, sadly or unsadly)
So Filmation to me were mostly disappointing (and again, the damn limited budget) when it came to TAS, but they also had to walk a sort of line, just like Rankin-Bass with The Hobbit, and then the "Return of the King."
The first one was fairly charming (and the songs were absolutely awesome), based on a children's book, but the latter?
Yeah, that shizzle just didn't work for a serious fantasy epic. Okay, I'll admit it had its points, but Rankin-Bass was so *not* the animation studio to do RotK, other than bringing back the super-charming... Glenn Yarbrough (sp?) as the narrator-singer.
Like this one: https://ampton.wordpress.com/2019/01/10/ampton-reads-tintin-in-the-congo/#more-61
Dang, that's a hell of a Tintin book to cite. In the colorised / updated version, there's so much charming ligne claire to admire, yet at the same time, so much cringe-worthy stuff to suffer through. It's hard for me to think of any other Euro comics where I felt the same way.
Well... for example, I guess with some of Gimenez' stuff in which he's both writer & artist, I sometimes have no idea what the hell's going on with the plot and story-telling, but at the same time I'm utterly awestruck by the art. That's not nearly how conflicted I feel about Congo, but the rough point is made...
Well, if he does we need to “recruit” him immediately!
Haha, yes. What also blows my mind is that he was in his early-to-mid 20's when he wrote that series (Btw, he reviewed Asterix, too), while also pursuing his masters / doctorate. Such a super-smart, cool dude.
However, my point is that a drawing of an American bomber, scaring a Japanese civilian, is a really edgy joke, considering the fire bombing and also nuking of Japanese cities full of civilians during WWII by the American air force.
Right, gotcha.
Makes me so sad, and... yeah.
Just... fuck.
(oh god, please tell me I didn't accidentally trigger the Haiku-bot just there!!)
Very interesting. I would love to see some examples!
My old friend "Lil' Ampton" is an absolute genius about this stuff. Haven't heard from him for a couple years, unfortunately. Last I remember, he was fast-tracking his archeology doctorate, and didn't have time for Tintin analysis anymore.
Anyway, here:
https://ampton.wordpress.com/
We love you, Ampton! <3
Come back one day...?
edit: Hergé you cynic mfer, you´re as cold as ice! It really is the (slightly altered) Enola Gay, scaring a “japanese” Tintin and Snowy! WTF is wrong with you Hergé?!
I dunno, matey. Other than them both being bombers, I see very little similarity in scale, shape or logistics. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But you're right-- that one was not in good taste, and I regret sharing it.
Indeed, despite Hergé classically constructing Tintin as 'young adult fiction,' he would occasionally depict some bleak things going on in the background.
At the same time, he was a smart, complex man, who went through a lot in WWII and post-WWII, but also regretted how naive he'd been when he was younger. Now George Lucas is a guy who pointlessly keeps re-working his old movies, but Hergé is a guy who reworked much of his Tintin stuff, very much for the better.
Sure!
And thanks so much for posting this. <3
I've added it to our master index of course, and I also hope we can explore more of Mawril's work.
Personally, the one about the little East Berlin boy finally getting to visit West Berlin (just when the wall was falling) had me in near-tears and applause.
No no no, that colossal idiot can sod right off.
Like-- when I'm up on stage, there's a fine line betwixt balancing any little talent I might possess versus showing off, like that moron tried to do just there.
Goodness, that "song" absolutely blows chunks,
And Yes-- I get the joke. I get the joke, I get the joke and... I GET THE JOKE.
Sorry mate, but I feel like that dude is a complete idiot when it comes to that song. I do enjoy his other stuff, tho.
EDIT: And never heard of Andy Warhol, is it not?