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Roger Langridge@hotelfred.bsky.social |
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Cartoonist. Epitaph will read "Drew the Muppets and died". Immigrant.
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Roger Langridge
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I think it's partly to do with how a lot of comic artists taught themselves to draw. They learned from studying published comics, which were inked and tight-looking, so they copied that look. (I went through a phase of that myself, though I'm a really sloppy penciller these days. Disgracefully so.)
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Roger Langridge
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I was not super familiar with Ploog and have only discovered his work fairly recently. Boy, that early stuff was really influenced by Eisner, wasn't it? And it looks like the writers were leaning into that. This could easily have come from a Spirit story.
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Roger Langridge
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True!
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Roger Langridge
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The only thing I’ve found to be foolproof is to set my alarm earlier than my son’s and nag him incessantly until he gets out of bed. He tends to sleep through his own alarm (I’m often the one who turns it off after it’s been going for 15 minutes).
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Tamara Bumpdeeay
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Oi. Venues. Listen up. You know you do relaxed performances for Autistic and ADHD people? Can you do strict performances for the other sorts of ASD people who need everyone to shut the fuck up? One sweetie wrapper rustle and you are ejected? Chatting leads to being taken out and shot. Yeah?
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Roger Langridge
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Thank you Gil!
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Roger Langridge
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Sometimes way more effective. Or draws focus to the characters when it’s needed there more.
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Roger Langridge
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That definitely works for parodies and for alternate versions, for sure. Although it feels wrong on the original (to me).
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Roger Langridge
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I think the consistency of Superman's costume is a character element. He's supposed to be the anchor everyone can depend on, always constant. Changing his costume, even changing his logo, goes against what his character represents, I think.
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Roger Langridge
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Lots of evidence linking between proper nutrition and ability to concentrate and understand things. Hungry kids find it harder to learn.
www.unesco.org/en/health-ed...
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Roger Langridge
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Yes indeed - I’ll be getting one out for LICAF/Thought Bubble. And thank you!
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Roger Langridge
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All set up at London Film and Comic Con! Kind of a weird day to be doing this.
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Joonas Linkola
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There are some things that still unite people on social media. #UKElection
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Roger Langridge
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I’d love to stay up and watch several ghouls disappear, but I’ve got a convention tomorrow and I’ll be a wreck. Contenting myself with the knowledge that anything especially juicy will be on social media on a loop for several days afterwards.
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Roger Langridge
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Arguably she took the anti-monarchist stance to its logical conlusion, mind
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Roger Langridge
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Maybe! I might become the only artist who can bring down the value of a comic by signing it.
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Roger Langridge
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I tend to use media for sketches that even the modern covers struggle with (e.g. brush pens filled with watercolour), which is my own fault I suppose, but that stuff works just fine on actual drawing paper!
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Roger Langridge
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It *has* improved, however marginally. Still far from ideal, but the first ones I did way back when were like drawing on a door.
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Roger Langridge
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Pigs and accordions! I do believe I’m on board. Hope things are good.
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Roger Langridge
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Pretty much. I want the Tories out first, despite disagreeing with Labour’s direction of travel, because I think they’re marginally more likely to engage with pressure to change than the current lot and they’re our only other realistic option. I would like better options, personally.
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Roger Langridge
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Yeah, no argument there
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Roger Langridge
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I don’t know what Starmer thinks but I don’t think the EU would have us back for a generation, regardless of what any government of the day would like to happen. It’s kind of a moot point. I’d love for it to be otherwise.
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Roger Langridge
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Sorry, Ned - do what you have to to look after yourself.
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Roger Langridge
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Bumpety-bump
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Getting the Tories out isn't the endgame after which everything will be rosy; it's very much Step 1 in a much longer process. But it's an absolutely necessary Step 1, and not to find any joy in it is very much Making A Choice.
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Steve Lieber
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Keeping myself centered by thinking about Hulk skanking to the heavy heavy monster sound of Madness.
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Roger Langridge
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I love that Schaffenberger leaned into the Batman house style for Bruce Wayne and made him look as much like a Sheldon Moldoff drawing as possible.
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Simon Bowland
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I’ve been massively let down on a major project and I now have a large hole in my schedule (and finances) from July onwards. Anyone needs a letterer with 20+ years skill + experience, please get in contact. Currently working for DC, 2000AD, Boom, Dark Horse. Reposts very much appreciated!
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Roger Langridge
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Oh yeah, I think he’s totally forgotten why he started.
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Roger Langridge
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Fun, I think, at this point anyway. He’s clearly having the time of his life.
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Rotating Cast
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Roger Langridge
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And that it's chore to be got out of the way instead of one of life's greatest pleasures.
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Roger Langridge
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Depends on your style, of course, but a big appeal of cartooning is that you can fudge this stuff quite a bit, in ways you couldn’t in (e.g.) a movie. It’s slightly more divorced from reality. We’ve all agreed that these marks arranged in a certain way represent certain things.
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Roger Langridge
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Not to be confused with a croquette, which is a lady frog
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Roger Langridge
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Yeah, his management role is not irrelevant.
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Roger Langridge
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Best take on this whole brouhaha I’ve seen so far
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Roger Langridge
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Draw a man a fish, he'll have a drawing of a fish. Teach a man to draw a fish...
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Roger Langridge
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Thank you, Captain!
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It's quite uneven early on as it fell behind schedule almost immediately. There's some really rushed work in the first few, which is possibly why it only lasted a year. It got better later on, by which time nobody was buying it.
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It was a kids' series for DC called Gross Point, 1997ish. Waid & Augustyn wrote the first issue (and developed it, I think?) and it was later written by Dan Slott and others. The original penciller dropped out early and Joe took over; I ended up taking over the art entirely towards the end.
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Roger Langridge
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That's right (I was/am a big Staton fan since Charlton E-Man days, inked him for a year or so and almost wet myself). He was credited as "Joe Stanton" in the GL-GA he drew.
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Roger Langridge
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Having grown up in New Zealand I sometimes have a problem appreciating some very British things that I think are objectively good (Royle Family, Tony Hancock) but just… don’t connect somehow.
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Roger Langridge
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All super-heroes are magical. It's magic with "science" painted on the outside, that's all.
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Roger Langridge
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I don't know if this character from Kirby's DINGBATS OF DANGER STREET was a fart joke or just unfortunately named.
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Roger Langridge
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Oh! Well, off the top of my head, Metamorpho (with full supporting cast, natch - they're the most interesting part) and Mister Monster. There are some others I love but I don't think I'd be especially right for, like Captain Marvel (Fawcett version).
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Roger Langridge
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Mmmaybe?
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Roger Langridge
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(Raises hand) two people. Cards on table, Plastic Man is one of (counts on fingers) maybe three superheroes I would ever have any interest in working on.
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Roger Langridge
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Roger Langridge
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I'm currently doing an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit to promote the Darkwing Duck Kickstarter, if anybody feels like joining in. (watches tumbleweed roll by)
www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks...
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Roger Langridge
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You've read my evening posts, then
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