DANNY DJELJOSEVIC
WHO
DANNY DJELJOSEVIC is a comic book writer based in San Diego, CA.He created the webcomic THE GHOST ENGINE with Eric Zawadzki and is Co-Managing Editor of COMICS BULLETIN.
He posts about comics, movies, and weird stuff.
WHERE
Frank Quitely, the best superhero cartoonist in the world. Ten years ago, he redesigned the X-Men and made drew some brilliant scenes in the series NEW X MEN. Above is the introductory scene from his final issue on the series, “The Prime of Miss Emma Frost.”
Quitely’s panels tend to move in two directions at once: one-point-perspective, pushing our depth view straight back and straight across our field of vision from left-to-right. The result is a dizzying sense of motion and an immersive sense of space and movement.
My favorite panel above is where Beast (blue guy) has rescued the car passengers and turns to see the flaming guy (Hermann) continue to run down the road. There’s so many different things happening in that panel and all of those things are moving or defined by their lack of moving. Beast and the passengers are still but a raising smoke and dust cloud from Hermann who continues to race away gives the right-hand side of the panel some movement. So as the eye travels from left to right, we see a still scene which gives way to a motion scene. All in the same panel. It’s brilliant.
The panel in which Cyclops skids the car in front of the gas station is also brilliant. It gives me the chills, it’s so good. We read from left to right but the car is moving from our right to left, and it’s trail of telltale motion signs (exhaust fumes, tail light distortion) points away from our reading orientation. These competing stimuli make us read that particular panel both backwards and forwards at the same time. It’s magnificent.
“The Prime of Miss Emma Frost” can be found in volume 4 of NEW X MEN, “Riot at Xavier’s.”
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NEW X-MEN changed my life as a teenager.
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These are 2 pages from my new comic, This Was Our Pact.
The full comic is only available here through Gumroad as a high resolution ebook
cameron-stewart
My contribution in full to the #bartkira project. This was tons of fun to do.
Cameron Stewart drew AKIRA-esque Simpsons manga. FUCK.
PLUSH ROOM
Comic based on a dream I had one night of March. Freud would have fun with this…
Love the style, love the colors, love the sequential storytelling. LOVE. IT.
SO. I wrote a four-issue comic called The Ghost Engine, drawn by the tremendously talented Eric Zawadzki. We put it online as a webcomic, which you can read from the beginning right here. The final page went up last Friday.
We’re already hard at work on our next project, which we’re announcing on April Fool’s because we thought you needed some realness in your day.
It’s called Panic Kids and you can expect it in 2014:
I have to admire that kid’s bravery - he clearly knows who Judge Dredd is and yet he still vows to defy him. That’s some real brand loyalty that Sega have built up there.
Judge Dredd vs. Dudes Who Really Love Sega is my favorite Judge Dredd story.
Excerpt from a recent comic drawn for Benn Ray at Atomic Books.
saint george (the legend and the other legend) for this slow youth zine coming out for MOCCA next month
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