Please critique these pencils. Vampire and superheroes included. - Page 5

TimR · 04-29-2012, 08:36 PM

"an egregious act of thread necromancy" - very amusing.. should be interesting to see how you script these pages..

I wonder what your patients would say if they knew their doctor had this kind of wild imagination.. ha..

But no, it is very renaissance man and all. I bet tons of publications would see you as a feature story if they knew about it - "Surgeon draws wild comic about metahuman hospital in spare time (+ fat vampires)"

It could be good publicity for your comic, at least!

I recently read (some of, didn't finish) a new re-release of an old Henry Miller book called "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare". One of the chapters is about a Lousiana surgeon he met who painted in his spare time. But Miller rates him highly, both as surgeon and painter. I dunno, might be of interest.

And while on the subject of doctor-artists, might as well throw in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Of course, his medical practice didn't do very well for some reason (not sure why, you'd think the Victorians could've used as many doctors as they could get) so luckily he was able to fall back on Holmes for his sustenance.

Reiniger · 04-30-2012, 05:44 PM

TimR - thanks for the comments, and the interesting thoughts. I didn't realize Sir ACD was a physician. It would indeed be nice to see these finished and published some day - any suggestions on who might be interested in such a thing (including the "mad doctor-creator" hook, of course)?

TimR · 04-30-2012, 09:11 PM

Yep, ACD was not only a physician, but he supposedly based Holmes on a renowned medical instructor he studied under. Just like Holmes, this instructor would deduce wildly obscure information about complete strangers, based on the mud on their boots, stiffness of posture, etc. Of course, one assumes ACD romanticized somewhat in the transition to literature...

Sorry I don't know which publishers to contact. You might send out press releases to local media + comics media (do a search to find how they're written) playing up the doctor/artist angle. Then if you get any press attention, make sure they include in the article that you're looking for interested publishers. Publishers will be more interested in something that's getting media attention than something that's not, I reckon... my 2 cents.

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04-29-2012, 08:36 PM	#61
TimR Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Birmingham, AL Posts: 734	"an egregious act of thread necromancy" - very amusing.. should be interesting to see how you script these pages.. I wonder what your patients would say if they knew their doctor had this kind of wild imagination.. ha.. But no, it is very renaissance man and all. I bet tons of publications would see you as a feature story if they knew about it - "Surgeon draws wild comic about metahuman hospital in spare time (+ fat vampires)" It could be good publicity for your comic, at least! I recently read (some of, didn't finish) a new re-release of an old Henry Miller book called "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare". One of the chapters is about a Lousiana surgeon he met who painted in his spare time. But Miller rates him highly, both as surgeon and painter. I dunno, might be of interest. And while on the subject of doctor-artists, might as well throw in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Of course, his medical practice didn't do very well for some reason (not sure why, you'd think the Victorians could've used as many doctors as they could get) so luckily he was able to fall back on Holmes for his sustenance.

04-30-2012, 05:44 PM	#62
Reiniger Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 90	TimR - thanks for the comments, and the interesting thoughts. I didn't realize Sir ACD was a physician. It would indeed be nice to see these finished and published some day - any suggestions on who might be interested in such a thing (including the "mad doctor-creator" hook, of course)?

04-30-2012, 09:11 PM	#63
TimR Registered User Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Birmingham, AL Posts: 734	Yep, ACD was not only a physician, but he supposedly based Holmes on a renowned medical instructor he studied under. Just like Holmes, this instructor would deduce wildly obscure information about complete strangers, based on the mud on their boots, stiffness of posture, etc. Of course, one assumes ACD romanticized somewhat in the transition to literature... Sorry I don't know which publishers to contact. You might send out press releases to local media + comics media (do a search to find how they're written) playing up the doctor/artist angle. Then if you get any press attention, make sure they include in the article that you're looking for interested publishers. Publishers will be more interested in something that's getting media attention than something that's not, I reckon... my 2 cents.