{"id":2987,"date":"2012-05-21T23:22:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T11:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:04:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:04:49","slug":"dragon-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2987","title":{"rendered":"Dragon: 01"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am delighted to have finally scanned in a comic I made waaaay back when I was 10 years old. (If I remember right, I completed these early episodes at the start of the year, before my birthday.) Here begin the adventures of Nogard the Dragon!<\/p>\n

\"Dragon<\/a><\/p>\n

This was, I think, the first strip comic I ever created and it actually shows some ability to work with panels and pace gags. Any semblance of technique was of course hoovered up from the comics I was reading at the time. These were Marvel’s Avengers<\/em> (at this point, deep in the Roger Stern era<\/a>) and IPC’s 80s revival of Eagle<\/a><\/em> (firmly into its decline), of course, but of more relevance: the legendary British humour comic Oink!<\/a>, whose humour I was eagerly trying to emulate, and the backmatter strips in the gamer mag Dragon Magazine<\/em>: Larry Elmore’s Snarfquest<\/a><\/em> and Dave Trampier’s Wormy<\/a><\/em>. If you’re gonna steal, steal from the best.<\/p>\n

Note that some skills weren’t picked up so readily: for example, I couldn’t draw or letter for tuppence. I remember some of my classmates who were just so talented on the cartoon front. Luckily this didn’t hold me back. And also, I couldn’t actually structure a story for tuppence either. That dramatically-named “Scarlet Castle” in the first panel? You’ll never hear of that again. That mid-strip fight-sequence? Complete filler. And that weird interstitial creature talking directly to the audience? Well – there is a reason for him but lord knows what I was thinking at the time.<\/p>\n

So, here it is. The remainder of the story will turn up on Flickr in due course, and will be linked in a future post or two. Unsubscribe now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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