Wow the year I was born, =O

Same here. o.o

... and my first reaction was, "I remember this one!"

gitoffamylawn.

Very nice!

I like this cover!

Dining al-fresco.
The scotch tape holding the window pane together is invocative.
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This is a damned fine pic.

That's a really nice cover. I've seen this one so many times going through back issues of Critters at the comic book store. I really miss that title.

Love this.

still want a comission from you. :)

This was my first Critters issue.

oooh it must be cold out... *stares at nips*

Those two were so cute! I think I read their story in a collected edition of some sort, I forget. But I remember their faces.

I don't know why, but I like that there's tape on the window.

Wow, just noticed that "four more years" billboard for the first time. Nice. :3

I had to throw away my last box of Animal Crackers. It said "Do Not Eat If Seal Is Broken." The giraffe was OK, the elephant was OK, the lion was OK, and the bear was OK. But I got to the seal, and wouldn't you know...

I really loved that couple from the few stories you had of them.

This comic made me want to write comics.

The even tones of the characters versus the bleeding of the red in the bricks makes me wonder if the characters weren't on a separate acetate layer and placed on the background painting?

The background was painted with Marten Dye, the figures with cel vinyl, but they were painted on the same board.

The blue line process was a way that allowed you to use full color and retain a solid black line (as opposed to having the color and line screened together.) You shot a line negative of the black art. Then you used the negative to make a blue contact print on a piece of hot press board. You painted the blue line drawing in full color. Then the color painting was photographically broken into C/M/Y screened negatives. The original line negative was used for the black (aka K) plate. What you're seeing in this scan is the color blue line painting with the reference film positive (of the line art) laid over it. The film positive shrunk slightly with age and is a little off register. Sharp-eyed readers may notice traces of the blue line behind the black line.

Some of the best comics ever...

cute faces

Now I miss Captain Jack a billion times more...

My fave Cap'n Jack moment is still Hrman quoting from a VW maintainence manual at a beatnik bar poetry reading.

Easily one of your Best Things Ever, that book.

I don't think I know the expression "blue line painting."

See my reply to Flinters, a little ways up.

I remember this issue!

Will do... but after a bit of thought, I suspect you mean you painted this over a blue pencil drawing.

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Geez. That was much more complicated that I expected! I would have probably just xeroxed a copy and coloured over that, though I admit it would mean a flimsier finished product. But, then, I never used wet colours...

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Too bad about Fantagraphics printed along the bottom. I'll just have to photoshop that out! Bwa ha ha ha ha...

Was Captain Jack ever collected in one big book? 'Cause now I miss him, too!

I got this from directly from you in 2001, still treasure it along the letter

I'd also like a book with all of the stories collected, plus printed on good paper....i can literally see through the pages of my issue of mean green bondo machine

About 15 years ago I worked with a smallpress publisher on some reprint books of Captain Jack. We only got through the first two volumes before the whole thing went south.

nice work :3

I'm afraid this comic has never worked for me, perhaps because the ending of the actual Adventures of Captain Jack seemed a beautiful finale in itself: whole, self-sufficient, with everything that needed to be said, said, and all the rest implied... hauntingly.






Mark