Whitechapel - REMAKE/REMODEL -- LITTLE NEMO (TWO WEEK CHALLENGE)

REMAKE/REMODEL -- LITTLE NEMO (TWO WEEK CHALLENGE)

2011-10-10T02:44:38-07:00

The REMAKE/REMODEL meme is one of my favourite things. Generally we’ll have a fresh one every Monday (unless a particular subject demands an extra week). Artists need a place to show off and Whitechapel should always be It. A handful of entries will be showcased on http://www.Bleedingcool.com at the end of each challenge.

THE RULES:

This is for ART ONLY. Any pen-portraits, or crappy scribbles padded-out with words, will cause a deployment of the newly-trained Urethral Attack Maggots. And a banned account.

No stock-photo manipulation. No half-arsed bollocks. Anything deemed to be piss-takery will be nuked from orbit. Original photography is fine.

No more than ONE submission by any one person.

INSTRUCTIONS:

LITTLE NEMO

To mark this year’s New York Comic Convention – and the disruption-of-service-while-I’m-away-getting-pissed it represents, and the slumber-knackering jetlag I shall inevitably suffer – I thought I’d set us a 2 Week Challenge of a particularly delicious, somnambulistic and comic-centric nature.

Little Nemo was quite simply one of the Best Things Ever. Quite apart from being an early explorer of the narrative medium, the amount of sheer invention, humour and creepiness pumped into it by Winsor McCay means it’s still a rollicking read today. And it’s fucking beautiful to look at. The bar, my friends, is High.

Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay that appeared from October 15, 1905 – April 23, 1911 and April 30, 1911 – July 26, 1914.
The strip related the dreams of a little boy: Nemo (meaning "nobody" in Latin), the hero. The last panel in each strip was always one of Nemo waking up, usually in or near his bed, and often being scolded (or comforted) by one of the grownups of the household after crying out in his sleep and waking them.

So we’re in super-high-concept territory here. It’s about the world of the subconscious, the slithering Id, the subliminal empyrean dragging-off a child’s brain for romps on another plane. It’s Narnia with teeth.

In the earliest strips, the dream event that woke him up would always be some mishap or disaster that seemed about to lead to serious injury or death, such as being crushed by giant mushrooms, being turned into a monkey, falling from a bridge being held up by "slaves", or gaining 90 years in age. The adventures leading to these disasters all had a common purpose: to get to Slumberland, where Nemo had been summoned by King Morpheus, to be the "playmate" of his daughter, the Princess.

Full article – including some of the creepy motherfuckers this poor little kid shared his dreams with – is Here.

So let’s do some reading between the lines, shall we? We’ve got a desperately unhappy kid, roundly loathed by the adults in his life, whose only escape from the dreariness of existence is to fling himself into a kaleidoscope of psychedelic experiences, quasi-racist lunatics and lethal fuck-you-uppery, all with the ill-defined goal of becoming the pliable Plaything of an imaginary girl. Uh-huh.

Usual rule applies: we’re RECONTEXTUALISING. The hows and the whys are up to you – maybe this is a contemporary version of Nemo, maybe it’s the original at the end of his life, maybe it’s something completely different and weird – but we want modernity, we want novelty, and we want cleverness.

On a personal note: Little Nemo is a work of beauty and inspiration which has changed the way that a lot of people in this industry – myself included – regard the tone and nature of narrative comics. I’m not going to stop you being as creepy and weird and nasty as you like, but – please – do so in the knowledge that the source material is as important as it is wondrous. Change it, evolve it, reclaim it… but don’t disrespect it.

You have two weeks.

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2011-10-10T05:13:48-07:00

Very interesting choice for the R/R !
A famous italian comics author did his own erotic iteration Little Ego

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2011-10-10T06:20:52-07:00

Challenge accepted. THIS is going to be interesting. Thanks Si...

PS: Little Ego is amazing, I own the collection. Sexy and mind-blowing.

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2011-10-10T06:49:09-07:00

MAN! I love this topic, I haven't been able to do these past R/R threads but this one is too tempting to pass! I have a collection of Winsor McCay strips and that man was a full-blown genius.

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2011-10-10T07:07:12-07:00

They don't make comics anymore like those old Little Nemo strips. Rarebit fiend is fun too.

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2011-10-10T09:34:28-07:00

Ariana -- fair enough.

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2011-10-10T09:43:28-07:00

Brendan, that's swell and all -- but this really isn't the place for all of that. If one of those images is your entry, edit that down -- otherwise, stick them in the artist's thread.

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2011-10-10T11:18:31-07:00

I'm just wondering if we'll get thru this without any clownfish. :)

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2011-10-10T14:28:45-07:00

Sadly, the anime version of Little Nemo is horrible beyond imagining. Hayao Miyazaki worked on it for a time before quitting in disgust, and called it "the worst experience of my professional career." It's *pretty*, but the storytelling is wretched. Strangely, I own a cel from this movie, as a prize from a gameshow at Anime Expo 94. I keep thinking I need to sell it, as it's got three of the main characters (Nemo, the clown guy, the squirrel) in it, which supposedly makes it sorta valuable.

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2011-10-10T18:21:30-07:00

Oh lumme, all I've seen from Little Nemo is the MAD parodies of it. I'll have to think very hard about how to tackle this.

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2011-10-10T20:21:18-07:00

Oooooh really looking forward to seeing the results of this!

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2011-10-12T02:58:50-07:00

I know exactly what I'm going to do for this- but it'll have to wait for now. Naturally, I will melt the mind of anyone that draws the same thing first.

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2011-10-12T03:03:41-07:00

I first heard of Little Nemo through, of all things, Genesis' 1978 "Scene's from a Night's Dream". It did lead me to the strips, though...

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2011-10-12T06:14:19-07:00

I know exactly what I'm going to do for this- but it'll have to wait for now. Naturally, I will melt the mind of anyone that draws the same thing first.

I actually see that as a plus, not a minus. We've got such a strong brain-trust here, I'd love to see different takes on the same idea. You got the skills, Matt, bring it and bring it well, friend! No brain melting required!

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2011-10-12T19:09:37-07:00

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2011-10-12T19:55:08-07:00

^hahahahaha!

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2011-10-12T21:28:58-07:00

okay I think I have to try this given how large Nemo looms in my personal artistic development.

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2011-10-13T04:10:43-07:00

Wow. That is so wrong. Well done.

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2011-10-13T05:34:54-07:00

Not so Little Nemo in 2011

Tim Hamilton

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2011-10-13T06:10:58-07:00

To: Everyone
Re: Zlatan Maric

I've slept with him. He's drawn porn comics for me. He held back on this. :)

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2011-10-13T07:09:48-07:00

Jason: Thanks for the backstory.
Tim Hamilton: You are really good.

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2011-10-13T11:37:47-07:00

Gargantuan version here.

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2011-10-13T12:03:32-07:00

AAAAAAAH this is my 2 year old son's favorite movie! Wish I didn't suck horribly at art or I would contribute.
edit: alright, breaking out the tablet, I owe it to myself to try my hand at it.

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2011-10-14T20:07:06-07:00

Man, this one's like getting laid for me. I want to do it so badly but can't even guess how i'm supposed to start.

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2011-10-14T20:48:34-07:00

Might I suggest sleeping on it? :)

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2011-10-14T21:15:40-07:00

I've got an idea, but I need a guy to be asleep.

...but then again, I guess I could just use myself or something.

Regardless, I need to be VERY careful because this comic was and still is a huge inspiration for me.

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2011-10-15T00:47:31-07:00

@richard basey Yes, let the subconscious work on it. I had some difficulty getting an idea but I'm finally getting something. I'll see about putting it together this week.

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2011-10-15T06:48:40-07:00

@oldhat -- Do you just need a reference photo or do you have something completely different planned?

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2011-10-15T07:45:16-07:00

@Zlatan--Amazing.
@Tim Hamilton--Flawless.
@Oxbrow--Eloquent.

"I'm just wondering if we'll get thru this without any clownfish. :)"

@Jason A. Quest--No.

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2011-10-15T09:03:29-07:00

In the last few months I've had a variety of ideas for a 21st century Nemo series. This isn't one of them. I couldn't distill any of those ideas into a single image that made any sense. So I let my subconscious go to work and this is what showed up. What it means, I leave up to your interpretations.

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2011-10-15T09:51:49-07:00

@DLI: ZOMG! I <3 Nemo so much!!! [squeee!] .... [ahem] Sorry, my inner 12-year-old girl takes over once in a while.

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2011-10-15T13:03:38-07:00

Hey all! It's been a while since I last joined in. Here's my Little Nemo:

Here, Nemo is the son of a junkie--a mother who is often affectionate but thoroughly unfit, very much in the grip of addiction. In his dreams she is both the monster and the princess he fights to rescue.

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2011-10-15T13:43:26-07:00

Holy shit, Neil...

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2011-10-15T14:31:41-07:00

Cannot get enough of Windsor McCay. Thank you so much for what you have given us. Here is the only thing I came up with. Very good challenge. Totally un original piece.

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2011-10-15T16:35:42-07:00

@neil, fuck, just...fuck me...that's amazing. hoping to get mine up this week.

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2011-10-15T16:41:49-07:00

@Alan, @RandomEntity, glad you liked it. It's not that great really. As usual with an R/R, I go with the first idea that came to mind (guess who's been playing a shitload of Dark Souls this week?)

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2011-10-15T17:01:32-07:00

@neil that's.. absolutely amazing. I'd love to read that story.

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2011-10-15T17:19:36-07:00

Struthersneil: Nemo in Boletaria?

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2011-10-15T18:29:09-07:00

Slumberland Reconfigured
He slept on, dreaming within dreams. Glimpses of stars leer down. With daddy gone, the princess no longer waits for her long lost playmate. The planets spin and launch on hypnagogic waves. Another dream washes over him and he slips further down. Buildings tremble as the moon passes in worry. If Nemo doesn't wake up soon, then no one will ever sleep again.

8.5x11
Pen on Paper

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2011-10-15T20:08:22-07:00

Here's mine, although after the last 2 I'm kind of ashamed of it.
Justice League Slumberland.

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2011-10-15T20:56:42-07:00

Not sure what was running through my head; thought of who I'd like to see running around in a dreamtime kingdom.
Great stuff so far, folks, it can only get better, right? I'm so glad to see everyone so nervous about doing this one right.

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2011-10-15T21:13:34-07:00

@Paul Sizer - I think you may need professional help. But until you get it, I'll continue to enjoy your R/R 's :)

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2011-10-15T21:39:49-07:00

@Sizer, there's something charmingly Hergé about that.

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2011-10-15T22:37:23-07:00

@Paul:

Jaw drops so far and fast it bruises my nads.

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2011-10-15T22:38:29-07:00

@Paul -- great job and fuck you!

Not seriously, but I was doing a Little Warren in Arse-Eel Land up until I saw this.

Shit.

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2011-10-15T23:52:19-07:00

Ideas for this challenge took a while to get going, but now they're really coming! My favourites so far are from David Lee Ingersoll and Struthersneill. I hope I can get mine up soon.

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2011-10-16T01:41:34-07:00

I started with this:
Brendan McCarthy study. Mixed media. Candy colored clown. William Burroughs strung out on bug juice. Needles in his arm. Drip reality. The defiant dreamer. The messiah of slumberland. The Princess of madness. A bag full of her drawings that she wants to show you. Mayan sun dial. Type-writer strapped to back for propulsion. Dreams, the never ending fuck cannon.

And ended up here:

It's fun to noodle on Nemo for a bit.

@neil: Holy shit. The concept is almost as good as the drawing. Almost! I would read a book like that.
@Paul: You talented bastard you

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2011-10-16T05:44:18-07:00

@Paul -- great job and fuck you!
Not seriously, but I was doing a Little Warren in Arse-Eel Land up until I saw this.
Shit.

Seriously, I would kill to see your version, Richard. You've been on fire with your stuff lately. Don't let ME stop "The Pace"!

@Dorkmuffin: thanks, I did a few different things here to emulate McKay. Simpler line work, and flat colors. McKay did do some shading in his work, but for the most part he worked with flat tones, same as Hergé did. If I'm anywhere in within a hundred miles of either of those two in execution, I'm honored. Thanks. My biggest technical challenge on this one; trying to figure out if Warren still has a clean shaved head. Photo research yielded inconclusive results.

@ScottS: OF COURSE I NEED PROFESSIONAL HELP. That's why I hang around here!

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2011-10-16T06:06:53-07:00

@struthersneil, brilliant. Sort of reminds me of Pan's Labyrinth.

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2011-10-16T19:30:36-07:00

@Paul, is that kind of comic pages you read with a smile in your face : )

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2011-10-17T16:54:00-07:00

@Jason A. Quest--Sorry, more clownfish:

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2011-10-17T17:29:06-07:00

Hey, it's all good!

Just no diminutive submarine captains, OK? ;)

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2011-10-17T21:08:46-07:00

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2011-10-18T01:45:27-07:00

That's very cool.

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2011-10-18T07:34:10-07:00

@ Tim Hamilton – Great drawing
@ struthersneil – Your inking is incredible
@ bbrian021 – Very much in the spirit of the original!
@ mothbot – That is insane! Bravo!
@ Paul Sizer – I am at a loss for words at how awesome your comic is!

Here is my take… complete with rotation, to avoid those embarrassing head stands to see the complete piece!

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2011-10-18T10:21:56-07:00

Wow, DBeb, my head just exploded. WIN on so many levels.

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2011-10-18T10:25:42-07:00

Seconded!

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2011-10-18T10:30:12-07:00

Thirded, if that's allowed. Wow, just... wow!

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2011-10-18T11:16:45-07:00

Thanks, guys!

Here are some links to more detailed, giant versions of the "Nemo Orientation" and the "Owen Orientation"

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2011-10-18T13:23:26-07:00

You sneaky bastard, I didn't even catch the NEMO/OWEN type flip thing! Too clever.

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2011-10-18T13:35:02-07:00

@ Paul - I put WAY too much thought into this

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2011-10-18T15:43:20-07:00

"Sue E."

LOL

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2011-10-18T15:55:37-07:00

Nemo / Owen is a very interesting and disturbing concept.

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2011-10-18T22:06:25-07:00

@DBed - my head is still spinning.

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2011-10-19T01:53:08-07:00

Here's my Nemo:

Great entries so far!!!

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2011-10-19T03:53:59-07:00

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2011-10-19T13:22:35-07:00

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2011-10-19T14:27:46-07:00

@EvilGeorge Love the strong black on white!

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2011-10-19T14:46:16-07:00

Great works everyone, here is mine:

What would series looked like if H. P. Lovecraft was script writer for Winsor. Color will come later.

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2011-10-19T19:15:49-07:00

Heh - -they say great minds, Clone Artist.

Well, fuck -- that's two riffs I was working on scuppered! That's what I get for being so busy.

I think i might just scrap working on this one.

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2011-10-19T20:04:23-07:00

@DBed: WOW / MOM

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2011-10-20T06:09:30-07:00

@ robb: Ha!

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2011-10-20T08:00:03-07:00

@ Richard Pace: I felt the same way when I saw mojokingbee's Baywatch version of "Jenny Greenteeth" 2 weeks ago. In the end I decided to put my version of similar idea, picture was almost finished and I really did not had any time to start something new, so what the heck...

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2011-10-20T19:02:09-07:00

Click to embiggen:

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2011-10-20T19:43:08-07:00

@DBed - I must disagree. Not a bit of thought that you put into that was wasted. Wow.

@Sizer - Until DBed posted, I thought you'd nailed the bar impossibly high. No, I was right - you did put it impossibly high. DBed somehow raised it further.

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2011-10-21T05:02:57-07:00

The bar is high enough now that I should be able to just walk under it, but I can't move my legs for some reason.

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2011-10-21T09:50:09-07:00

I love the fact that these challenges kick everyone's asses to jump over increasingly higher bars. I SO need that kind of creative stimulus.

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2011-10-21T13:51:27-07:00

@ Sizer: Ditto

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2011-10-21T15:23:02-07:00

Well, physical and mental state hasn't left me around for a while, but some nagging call drags me over and i find this with only 2-3 days left on it? Oh, damn. Must crawl to graphics tablet...

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2011-10-21T17:54:28-07:00

There you go...

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2011-10-22T01:06:14-07:00

Here is mine. Little Nemo with a modern flavour and a bit of a twist.

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2011-10-22T05:53:53-07:00

Really want to spend more time on this- but I can't justify the time. Sorry!

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2011-10-22T10:04:42-07:00

Gods almighty! I think everything I would've wanted to do with this was already done before it began to coalesced in my mind. And done better than I could've. Fantastic and wretched at once. Nice work!

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2011-10-22T17:30:21-07:00

I think this run deserves some kind of award.

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2011-10-22T17:46:43-07:00

@Axel: Whoa.

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2011-10-23T01:46:54-07:00

@gnilleps Cheers mate. What I really mean is that I wanted to pull back to show more freakishness. And also his Y-fronts. But that would've meant spending a lot more time than I currently have.

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2011-10-23T04:57:40-07:00

@david..nice Cd cover approach.
@struthersneil...lovely line & work really well b&w.
@paul...firing on all cylinders, mate! Awesome!
@Dbed...wonderful concept&execution...love the colours too.
@evilgeorge..nice touch on his expression.
@matt...freaky..like.it.

Finally got around to this...slightly off my game...again...better than last week's attempt though.

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2011-10-24T10:24:24-07:00

Ack! New challenge up. Screw not being done yet - here's what i managed in the time i had:

(Bigger)

It'll probably help if there's any old Emo fans in the audience. And i leave it to you to decide whether the bed in panel 8 is empty due to his breaking the fourth wall in panel 7 (sorry - no numbers, ran out of time) placing him at that spot in the comic, or if he missed.

And i have no idea what happened to the second paragraph with comments in my last post, but i'm upping this now before it gets locked away instead of trying to recreate them now.

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2011-10-25T22:16:01-07:00

Well, who makes it to BleedingCool this time?

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2011-10-26T12:37:01-07:00

A selection on BleedingCool. Fucking tough to pick, this one.

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2011-10-26T16:13:15-07:00

Also, IO9 pimped the thread... crediting it (mostly, and in the title) to Warren. Oops.

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2011-10-26T16:53:51-07:00

Also picked up by SUPER PUNCH Hot damn!
Thanks for picking some choice subjects for us to screw with, Si. Really appreciate you keeping things lively around here. : )

REMAKE/REMODEL -- LITTLE NEMO (TWO WEEK CHALLENGE)

2011-10-26T19:18:33-07:00

I know, too damn late. I had no idea what to do until the very end.

REMAKE/REMODEL -- LITTLE NEMO (TWO WEEK CHALLENGE)

2011-10-27T11:11:01-07:00

HOLY SHIT, HUSSEIN!

REMAKE/REMODEL -- LITTLE NEMO (TWO WEEK CHALLENGE)

2011-10-27T16:33:54-07:00

Seconded, Hussein. You had the balls to do the hand drawn word balloons; I punked out and did vector ones.

REMAKE/REMODEL -- LITTLE NEMO (TWO WEEK CHALLENGE)

2011-10-27T18:48:44-07:00

Yikes, and nailed the letter style, too.

I made a McCay font ages ago but it wants some kerning.

REMAKE/REMODEL -- LITTLE NEMO (TWO WEEK CHALLENGE)

2011-10-27T18:49:28-07:00

Damn!

Double-damn, Hussein!

REMAKE/REMODEL -- LITTLE NEMO (TWO WEEK CHALLENGE)

2011-10-28T11:09:43-07:00

That's a damn shame to not get included...

REMAKE/REMODEL -- LITTLE NEMO (TWO WEEK CHALLENGE)

2011-10-30T02:34:24-07:00

Herr Hussein -- that's beautiful. Very sorry it's too late to be included.

I kept expecting Nemo to sit bolt upright and declare "CHEAP iPHONE 4 FOR SALE".

REMAKE/REMODEL -- LITTLE NEMO (TWO WEEK CHALLENGE)

2011-10-30T14:12:27-07:00

Thanks, guys. You kind words mean a lot to me.
@Paul, if you and DBed hadn't raised the bar first and showed me what was possible here, I would never even have tried to jump. You made me do my first comic page since '88.

The important thing to me is this forum here, not bleedingcool.com.
Thank you Si, for keeping the thread open.

REMAKE/REMODEL -- LITTLE NEMO (TWO WEEK CHALLENGE)

2011-11-01T21:40:44-07:00

You folks saw yourselves on io9, right?