Friday, February 17, 2006
The Wakeman periodicals
In the "armageddroid" episode we wanted to stylishly reveal some of wakeman's back-story, but we wanted to do it in a way we hadn't seen done in a cartoon before. Rob and I love old sci-fi pulp magazine covers, so this seemed as appropriate a place to pay tribute as any. A simple enough idea that turned out to be one of the most labor intensive and time consuming undertakings of the entire series. Too many artists contributed to these images to list them all here, but the results were beautiful and I remain very proud of the sequence. I'll try to get the rest up soon.
Magazine designs are so impressive!
ReplyDeleteVexus vs. Wakeman:
http://espanol.geocities.com/wichobot/gif/wakemanb.gif
Both fighters are quite good ;)
wichobot - www.teenagerobot.tk
Amazing as always, guys! I think we need another "Art of" book; This time in *COLOR*!
ReplyDeleteThe first time I saw that sequence it amazed and made me smile at the idea of Wakeman being such a heroine ^_^ the art is of course simply astounding!
ReplyDeleteAnd I have to agree with Chris Battle; an Mlaatr art book in color would be awesome ;D
Oh, by the way, thanks for all the images you've been uploading ;) hope to keep seeing more ^_^
Sincerely - J.R.
Thanks for posting!
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame we'll never get to see more of Wakeman's past, though.
wow those t-cards are genius...pure unadulterated genius....
ReplyDeleteThe back Story of Nora Wakeman was amazing to put it mildly. I had wondered why you had chosen the art deco style of the 1930s as your graphic form, besides to honor Max Fleischer. Now I see it wasand is a homage to pulp Sci Fi as well. Kudos to you, as I am a devotee of classic Sci fi of the 50s, especially Heinlin and Asimov.
ReplyDeleteI could not, as any outsider could not, realize that it would be so time and labor intensive, to produce the back story and the Title cards but they gave a whole new perspective to Dr wakeman and the development of the XJ series.
Interesting that she was a redhead, as most Sci Fi heroines seem to be! (Heinlin's widow Virginia is a titian beauty and no doubt an inspiration for many of his leading ladies)
I agree that another "Art of MLaaTR" book would be welcomed, as I have the first, and since there is a dearth of merchandising, it would be very well received.
As a side question, why is every piece of merchansise that IS offered,(ala Frederator) showing Jenny in Black siloutte? Is there some copyright issue about showing her in color?
Please keep up the good work.
I shall contact Nick and Viacom and Frederator again about getting the licensing rights released for a fourth season to WB, or Cartoon Network or even Disney. This show is too good to go down without a fight!
I loved that episode. I loved the thoght of seeing a complete antonym to what most would think Wakeman's past was like.
ReplyDeleteAWESOME! I thought those covers were really cool! :D
ReplyDeleteso very very beautiful. so great. so wonderful.
ReplyDeleteim speachless. these covers KILL me ! the one that looks like a tales of combat/kurtzman war comic especially.
such great work. i am in complete awe. pleas post hte reast !
dany
www.danyboom.blogspot.com
Hey, you got a copy of that Science Friction magazine?
ReplyDeleteEveryone around me: O.o; [slowly back away]
...what?