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And there you have it!
Be sure to DOWNLOAD the pages and run it through your own browser while listening to the song... like a Read-A-Long...
My next Musicstrip will be Led Zeppelin's STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN....
( look for that in about....what? 3-4 years from now??? Sheesh.)
And there you have it!
Be sure to DOWNLOAD the pages and run it through your own browser while listening to the song... like a Read-A-Long...
My next Musicstrip will be Led Zeppelin's STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN....
( look for that in about....what? 3-4 years from now??? Sheesh.)
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Comics
Species Wolf
Size 928 x 1200px
File Size 301.9 kB
I had a sort of "cinematic" vision swaying over my layout designs, based on my affection for classic "widescreen" epic films, and decided to approach the subject as if it were a storyboard for an actual music video.
I'm curious what differences your interpretation would have?
I'm curious what differences your interpretation would have?
More human & less furry (sorry). More multiple stories to the hotel, which would have a LasVegas Holiday Inn flavor. (Your hotel is better.) I saw my visuals as being about self-entrapment -- choosing to believe that you can't leave that vision of California (that is no longer true -- if it ever was true).
My limits were in not thinking it out as a visual presentation with its own visual story -- which is what you did . I'd visualize images and say to myself "this represents this or that cultural thing" -- but a narration or commentary (like footnotes) isn't warranted (or a help) in a graphics presentation of the song. Maybe OK for myself while listening to the song, but not a good graphic presentation for an audience. Your fully-realized satan/cult/vampire dream-story is very good graphic story-telling.
My visualization did not do the specific vampire bits, but you hit the same psychic/oppressive tone and turn of mood from nostalgia to entrapment -- and supplied stronger images than I had, like making the sexual pairing clear, and the strong images in your version of the 'feast'. (Very effective.)
My limits were in not thinking it out as a visual presentation with its own visual story -- which is what you did . I'd visualize images and say to myself "this represents this or that cultural thing" -- but a narration or commentary (like footnotes) isn't warranted (or a help) in a graphics presentation of the song. Maybe OK for myself while listening to the song, but not a good graphic presentation for an audience. Your fully-realized satan/cult/vampire dream-story is very good graphic story-telling.
My visualization did not do the specific vampire bits, but you hit the same psychic/oppressive tone and turn of mood from nostalgia to entrapment -- and supplied stronger images than I had, like making the sexual pairing clear, and the strong images in your version of the 'feast'. (Very effective.)
Thank you for sharing this!
I do recognize some basic plot techniques I hammered out in my head mostly by feeling the story playing in my mind, then scratching it down into tiny thumbnails, but I now see what else I had done that I never knew and was lucky ( I guess) that it worked effectively, according to what you had just observed here. I say that I was lucky because I did this out of pure "want" of doing the song I wanted to see it as, and not deriving from any special writing ability or taught drama theory from school...( I would also guess this would apply to ANY Musicstrip I do... for the result of what I envision is not academic but emotionally gratifying due to said affection for the visual acuity of cinema--- It just means I'm imitating the movies... )
I do recognize some basic plot techniques I hammered out in my head mostly by feeling the story playing in my mind, then scratching it down into tiny thumbnails, but I now see what else I had done that I never knew and was lucky ( I guess) that it worked effectively, according to what you had just observed here. I say that I was lucky because I did this out of pure "want" of doing the song I wanted to see it as, and not deriving from any special writing ability or taught drama theory from school...( I would also guess this would apply to ANY Musicstrip I do... for the result of what I envision is not academic but emotionally gratifying due to said affection for the visual acuity of cinema--- It just means I'm imitating the movies... )
Comic strips get views & pacing from the movies & videos -- but movies are also supposed to have picked up timing and points-of-view from the comic strips (and also paintings & stage-plays). And that's why the movies like to hire cartooners for story-boards....
The school-learning of structures & words is mostly to have additional tools or a pre-made structure to build on. (Or even just having common labels for comparing with co-workers). And you've found the great division between academic analysis of construction, and the style of creating by inspiration. One can get by with only one or the other, but it can be useful to have both sets of tools available.
And inspired art is more inspirational, anyway.
The school-learning of structures & words is mostly to have additional tools or a pre-made structure to build on. (Or even just having common labels for comparing with co-workers). And you've found the great division between academic analysis of construction, and the style of creating by inspiration. One can get by with only one or the other, but it can be useful to have both sets of tools available.
And inspired art is more inspirational, anyway.
It is to say, dear Michael, that a complement for the Devil's pride can hold sway over his footsteps. I had a notion that doing an illustrated effort of a well repeated popular composition would attract some angst, that it was in those good efforts that bridged the gap between casual loathing and revisionary acceptance makes this contrivance all that more satisfying...
-in other words, sir... thank you very much for the comment!
-in other words, sir... thank you very much for the comment!
Ah, that's just wonderful! Your visualization of what is going on there! I'm one of those who just listen to a song and don't really pay that much attention to the words. Just hum along and enjoy the tune. So you've brought me a whole new level of enjoyment for this old favorite of mine! Thanks a lot my friend!! :)
Thank you very much. ( ...I kinda knew you'd like the ending twist of it ) It is gratifying to read that I'm cause of such new perspective awareness. I also had the benefit of no one approaching this song in a furry sense... still, it was 20 years ago I decided to actually put down on paper such vision.
........20......years.
Time? I hate you....
........20......years.
Time? I hate you....
You knew right, and somehow I had a glimmer of the future with the frame of her head on the pillow with her eyes cracked open. I thought to myself...there have to be fangs behind those pretty lips! Maybe that's even the tip of one I see there...
Time is THE enemy. All our woes can be attributed to time one way or the other, the way I see it.
PS...portrait of Charlie......or would that be Saint Charlie?
Time is THE enemy. All our woes can be attributed to time one way or the other, the way I see it.
PS...portrait of Charlie......or would that be Saint Charlie?
http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/2011.....lian-car-crash
I hadn't even though about him for years. I saw it on Yahoo...
I hadn't even though about him for years. I saw it on Yahoo...
There's a bit of that going around, 20-year-old stuff that makes folks go eek!
Like this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5031032/
Like this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5031032/
Apologies if I'm repeating things discussed earlier.
First: I've always pictured my own little video/movie to this song, and your two opening pages & final closing page are eerily similar to what I've had in my head for decades -- desert, convertible, pulling in on the driver in the beginning, pulling back from the hotel into a skyview, etc. Wow.
I love the "widescreen format." It's like I'm watching a movie, instead of a simple music video.
I very much enjoy the pencilled/charcoaled look. It adds to the uncertain, dreamlike mood of the song much better than sharp black & white inking would.
Great how everyone's staring at/watching the subject, adding to the paranoid feeling of Something's Not Quite Right.
I wasn't expecting the vampirism at all. I expected something dark, of course, but this was still a nice surprise.
First: I've always pictured my own little video/movie to this song, and your two opening pages & final closing page are eerily similar to what I've had in my head for decades -- desert, convertible, pulling in on the driver in the beginning, pulling back from the hotel into a skyview, etc. Wow.
I love the "widescreen format." It's like I'm watching a movie, instead of a simple music video.
I very much enjoy the pencilled/charcoaled look. It adds to the uncertain, dreamlike mood of the song much better than sharp black & white inking would.
Great how everyone's staring at/watching the subject, adding to the paranoid feeling of Something's Not Quite Right.
I wasn't expecting the vampirism at all. I expected something dark, of course, but this was still a nice surprise.
Thanks for the comments! Repeats are as good as the first in this regard...
- I'm sure a lot of people throughout the decades have visualized the same scenarios here and there... my influences were of what the lyrics were telling me and the long exit music naturally felt like a montage of referential scenes...
- I have a great love of "epic" cinema presentations... Panavision, Vistavision, 70mm and the like. When I thought of doing this, I wanted the feel of a "widescreen" experience, or at least a storyboard of one.
- Pencils were fast enough for me at the time to submit it before the deadline of the APA Rowrbrazzle I was in which had a "Music" theme that particular issue. The Furrologh Issue that has this has WAY better pencil definition than what my scanner could produce...
- gives you that "Twilight Zone" anxiety, huh?
- Vampire stuff has always been a fascination of mine... and a constant recurring theme in some of my comic strips.
- I'm sure a lot of people throughout the decades have visualized the same scenarios here and there... my influences were of what the lyrics were telling me and the long exit music naturally felt like a montage of referential scenes...
- I have a great love of "epic" cinema presentations... Panavision, Vistavision, 70mm and the like. When I thought of doing this, I wanted the feel of a "widescreen" experience, or at least a storyboard of one.
- Pencils were fast enough for me at the time to submit it before the deadline of the APA Rowrbrazzle I was in which had a "Music" theme that particular issue. The Furrologh Issue that has this has WAY better pencil definition than what my scanner could produce...
- gives you that "Twilight Zone" anxiety, huh?
- Vampire stuff has always been a fascination of mine... and a constant recurring theme in some of my comic strips.
still a wonderful classic. I also love your interpretation.
a german radio station I listen to translates interestign sonmgs every now and then and either broadcasts the lyrics along with the music or posts them on their web page.
the translation of these lyrics without further pics seem to hint at drug abuse until you reach a point where you get caught ina trip never to return. I wonder what The Eagles' original meaning was?
a german radio station I listen to translates interestign sonmgs every now and then and either broadcasts the lyrics along with the music or posts them on their web page.
the translation of these lyrics without further pics seem to hint at drug abuse until you reach a point where you get caught ina trip never to return. I wonder what The Eagles' original meaning was?
I'm sure someone has the notion to that.
And this just occurred to me... how did those guys that made the animated movie "Yellow Submarine" interpret those Beatles songs the way they did.... were they trying to be "artsy" or trying to follow the lyrical meanings (however vaguely...) When I do projects like this, I try to put down as visually as I see it in my mind what the lyrics tell me, and put it in a logical manner. Some songs are just impossible to interpret in comic format, however strongly I can feel in my mind about doing them that way...
And this just occurred to me... how did those guys that made the animated movie "Yellow Submarine" interpret those Beatles songs the way they did.... were they trying to be "artsy" or trying to follow the lyrical meanings (however vaguely...) When I do projects like this, I try to put down as visually as I see it in my mind what the lyrics tell me, and put it in a logical manner. Some songs are just impossible to interpret in comic format, however strongly I can feel in my mind about doing them that way...
judging by the colours they used they probably were abusing forbidden substances. :)
yeah, some songs like "Bohemian Rhapsody". Freddie Mercury never told his pals what the story was supposed to tell, so nobody knows...
I have been pondering making use of Mike& The Mechanics' "Another Cup Of Coffee", if I ever get around to do it...
yeah, some songs like "Bohemian Rhapsody". Freddie Mercury never told his pals what the story was supposed to tell, so nobody knows...
I have been pondering making use of Mike& The Mechanics' "Another Cup Of Coffee", if I ever get around to do it...
wow i recalled seeing this for the first time in a magazine showed to me by an older friend 
derf_dragon and now whenever i hear the song i recall the comic page per page. the style was so fitting of the song. Kudos!
derf_dragon and now whenever i hear the song i recall the comic page per page. the style was so fitting of the song. Kudos! 
Just found this great work .. :)
Read along as I played the song.
Rumor I read this song was inspired by
By the bands stay at a hotel were a
A fan con was going (not sure if it was a sci fi or comic ) in there early years.
But it's a great story behind the song.
I attended a con in denver were a small group was playing
The song in the main area of the con sorta of an impromptu
Show and we were watching .
Read along as I played the song.
Rumor I read this song was inspired by
By the bands stay at a hotel were a
A fan con was going (not sure if it was a sci fi or comic ) in there early years.
But it's a great story behind the song.
I attended a con in denver were a small group was playing
The song in the main area of the con sorta of an impromptu
Show and we were watching .
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