Shaenon: Another doodle I sent to Jeffrey. Tip's dress is based on a costume Kevin O'Neill drew on Mina Murray on one of the covers for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a much more effective (not to mention better drawn) secret government organization.
Channing: For a while, I was actually attempting to work up a promo campaign for the comic based on this sketch. Unfortunately, it fell through, in part because I lack the confidence to engage in self-promotion all that much. The promotional strategy that was eventually enacted was -- as you may know -- posting about it in our respective blogs on launch day and then running away and hiding for a while. Arguably not the most effective strategy, but hey, if you're reading this now, it worked on you. Take that, artistically-confident people!
14 comments:
Alycia Shedd (leeshajoy) says:
This demands to be made into a full-color poster. DEMANDS, I say.
Cameron Nielsen (cameroncn) says:
Sweetheart with shades=ADORABLE.
OK, I'm ashamed of myself. I saw Sweetheart in shades and the first thing I thought of was "Reservoir Dogs".
Does Unity feel the same way as Mell about wearing hose? Or does she have custom-made stiletto heels, with real stilettos?
Elaine Corvidae (elaine_corvidae) says:
Tip is adorable. I agree with everyone else--this must be a poster! Come on, let us minions do some of the promo work for you.
Hmm... as Martha noted, Tip is usually not that flamboyant, and especially that fan-and-eyelashes pose doesn't suit his personality(*). Of course, he could certainly dress up for a poster shoot.... Where did Sweetheart's muzzle go? And yow, Mustachio is BIG!
*: Which, on consideration, is quite well-considered. As a TS once told me, "once you've gone out in public wearing a dress, there's nothing left that can scare you". (YMMV, especially if you were born female. ;-) )
N La Teer (zapatos) says:
I (what are we at now? Fourth? Fifth?) the notion that this MUST become a poster. It is too awesome not to. And Tip looks absolutely fabulous in that dress.
Edwin Quantrall (reynard) says:
Yes! Yes! Either a poster or a wallpaper! Or both!
Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) says:
Tip can be very flamboyant depending on his mood. He's always a model of class and style, of course.
Nick Christensen (incidence) says:
I would so buy a poster of this, best doodle yet.
Justin Grubbs (the_purple_knight) says:
Is anyone going to make an attempt to read what it says on the other side in case it will give us hints on future comics?
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