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WORLD OF HURT – The Thrill-Seekers Episode 3: “Never Volunteer Information”
This was the first time the readers got a good look at Pastor, so I wanted to make it big and memorable. The great Al Williamson (“Secret Agent Corrigan”) excelled at creating evocative close-ups in his strips. I was really trying to ape Al Williamson’s approach to rendering here, but I’ll leave it up to you to determine if that was successful. Also, I was unhappy with the way I initially drew and inked the face. I don’t know if you can tell from the scan, but, in the first panel, the area between the bridge of Pastor’s nose to his bottom lip is a paste-up job of cut-out Bristol board over the original inks on vellum. Hopefully, my fellow process junkies out there find that kinda interesting.
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- Jay Potts
