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“The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (page 1) pencils” by Carson Grubaugh and Dave Sim

Artists: Carson Grubaugh (All) , Dave Sim (Writer)

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“The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (page 1) pencils” by Carson Grubaugh and Dave Sim Comic Art

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Title:	“The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (page 1) pencils” by Carson Grubaugh and Dave Sim
Artist:	Carson Grubaugh (All)
Artist:	Dave Sim (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	623
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	11/20/2021
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“The Strange Death of Alex Raymond (page 1, ‘pencils’)” (2021)
by Carson Grubaugh (1981- )
10 x 11 in., 8.5 X 11 in., pen ink on paper
Coppola Collection

In The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, Dave Sim, legendary creator of Cerebus the Aardvark, and Carson Grubaugh, talented and creative artist across multiple media, explore and examine the line-making techniques of some of comics' greatest photorealist creators.

The story of this graphic novel is as twisty as the Büyük Menderes River (in Turkey, from which we get the word “meander”). But I digress; the artistry is straightforward and impressive. And thanks to work of master production designer and line-smith, Sean Michael Robinson, the integrity of the printing and reproduction is truly unmatched.

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is self-contained in a 320-page, 8.25x12 inch oversized hardcover book.

This is the preliminary version of the art created for Page 1 (I mean, really, how can you pass up page 1?).

From Carson: These are the "pencils." I started by tracing everything on the computer in contour lines, then printed it out and did one pass of "pencils" with micron pens to get a sense for how I wanted to approach the inks. That is what these are. Then I scanned them in, printed it back out in blueline, and actually inked it. Lots of steps conceived by me before I had enough confidence to just print out the initial contour trace and go right to it with my brush without the “pencils” step.

The final image of the SDOAR pg1., brush and ink on bristol board, 11" x 17" is included in the Additional Images.

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Posted on 11/21/2021

Awesome! Can't wait to get my copy of this labor-of-love tome

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