Bill Peckmann &Comic Art &Disney 09 Dec 2011 06:36 am
Ben & Me – Comic Book – 2
- Here we have the conclusion to the comic book version of Ben & Me. Part 1 here.
Al Hubbard was the artist behnid the work; beautiful brush inking and great compositions. The material came from Bill Peckmann‘s collection for which I’m enormously grateful. Any notes from here on come from Bill:
- Whenever Al Hubbard adapted Disney feature film characters to comic books he always gave them the authenticity they deserved. His style is deceptively loose and simple but he was always on model and his drawings are full of life.
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The back cover
Here’s a neat way to show off Hubard’s formidable lay out ability, it’s by showing the pages in the gray scale mode so the coloring doesn’t get in the way. (Luckily the colors transform well into gray values. Let your imagination do the coloring and it also takes on the somewhat wonderful look of a production storyboard.)
His page and panel layouts are terrific. They are well designed, move the story and hold your interest. All wrapped up solid acting poses.
(Here are 3 gray scale pages.)
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on 09 Dec 2011 at 12:05 pm 1.Peter Hale said …
“Isn’t that young Ben Franklin?” says Governor Keith on page 19. And in the film he is young – with brown hair (and some on top!).
The hair is all there on the comic’s front cover, albeit coloured grey, but throughout the comic it is the old, balding, white-haired Franklin that is depicted. I know that this is the most recognisable image of him, but if I’d read this comic as a child the discrepancy between the story and the pictures would have really bugged me!
on 24 Apr 2017 at 1:06 am 2.Chris Sobieniak said …
I wouldn’t blame you Peter for thinking that. I suppose for consistency sake they went with it that way rather than to remember which color to give his hair and on what page/s.