Here's a blast from the past...Filber! A rather shameless rip off of Gary Panter's 'Jimbo' strip, started one Christmas eve while sitting waiting to go home from the TSB! A lot were drawn on the fly or even on the road, hence the slightly rough feeling to some of them. It allowed me to do a quasi-continuing strip, but experiment with different drawing styles. Lots of different influences here….Apart from Panter: Frank Miller, Biff, Ian Wright, Andy Dog, Moebius, The The, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The KLF, The Jam, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Clash…The list goes on.
The offset of images against ridiculously over the top or over romanticised prose is a direct steal from Jimbo (though nowhere near as good), but I remember that Fred Previous (where are you now?) loved it.
Of course looking back it’s a load of self-indulgent twaddle, but this was a time when I was most productive artwise, and I'm surprised how much of this stuff I produced!
Anyway, at number 50, it was time to call it a day! The full album is here:
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