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Brennan Voboril
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Posted: 11 March 2018 at 9:25am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

John were these sort of warm-up sketches for this project?  

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Not as such. Like I said, Chris brought this up just a month or so back. Those doodles are several years old.
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Wallace Sellars
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Posted: 11 March 2018 at 10:37am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

I dig the "cartoonier than normal" style shown here. It would be nice for books
featuring characters like Captain Marvel, Metamorpho and Plastic Man as well.
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Michael Penn
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Posted: 11 March 2018 at 10:52am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

I detect (pun) some Victor Mature in your Dick Tracy, JB. 
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Shane Matlock
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Posted: 11 March 2018 at 12:20pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

This looks amazing. 
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Bill Mimbu
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Posted: 11 March 2018 at 12:22pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

DARN!

I would have enjoyed this.
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Rebecca Jansen
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That looks great! Maybe because I've never actually liked Dick Tracy, don't know why. I recognize it as historic and influential and all but for me the best things that came out of it was the Fearless Fosdik takeoff and an obscure Ventures song for a tv series. Although there was a run of minimalist sawdust comic strips within the comic strip I saw that was entertaining to me.

I'd love to see a lighter premise John Byrne comic accessible to all ages. There used to be such a variety of adventure and fantasy things from Johnny Quest and The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew to the Krofft creations, and back in the golden age Donald Duck and a fantasy based cartoony Captain Marvel were the biggest sellers. Maybe Scholastic or some publisher not known for comics that would have distribution outside collector shops? Something involving actual science perhaps?
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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 11 March 2018 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Shoot--I would buy a Byrne DICK TRACY coloring book of just pin-ups!
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Matthew Wilkie
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Posted: 11 March 2018 at 4:16pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

So this has cleared time in your schedule to do The Conclave, right? 😉
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Wallace Sellars
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Matthew, don't do that to me, maaaaaan!
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Wilson Mui
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Too bad it didn't work out. It would have been a fun
book.
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Matt Hawes
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Cool art!
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