Other awesome things online from last week that I’ve missed: Stuart Immonen shows how he would have redesigned the Archie characters. He explains why, later:
I’m fascinated by this, actually. Archie’s one of the few remaining comic companies with a house style– At the beginning of Archie (the character)’s development, there was a lot of variation, and even through the sixties, you could readily tell a Schwartz from a DeCarlo. Disney manufactures a variety of versions of their characters (Winnie the Pooh, for example comes in at least three distinct “styles”, one being based on Shepard’s art) Many anime and manga use chibi versions of characters — usually in the same context as the “regular” versions– and no one bats an eye. The intended audience for Archie comics is still kids, isn’t it? Without preconceived notions of what Archie “should” look like. The B&V art is just fine, IMO. On par with anything else the company publishes.
Immonen’s really one of the best artists around these days, isn’t he? I hold out secret hope that he’ll do a Scott McCloud and come up with his own version of Understanding/Making Comics one day… Meanwhile, Drawn points you in the direction of even more Archie revisions…
