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Good Morning Sir: I stumbled across your Leroy Brown/Jim Croce work and was impressed. Great Job. Can you do other animations? I wrote a book several years back that was taken from a record I really enjoyed listening to. I was wondering could you do similar work and what are your cost for a three minute session. Peace
Oh wow, that’s really cool! Of course, I did not do the Jim Croce cartoon. That was done way back in 1973 by a man named John Wilson for the Sonny & Cher Show. To do a 3 min. animation like that today would probably cost thousands of dollars. If you would like to see a cartoon I did, go to this link: https://youtu.be/kv1S9MIhqzE?si=ybNZ9cyfQeaoVMab
Here is a picture of my collection of metal drawing nibs. I have gathered these throughout the years and although I only use a very specific type for drawing and lettering, I like keeping them. The ones I use on the strip are in the little plastic box in the foreground. The techniques I use to draw are very old fashioned to some. Although I do use a tablet for doing commercial work, the plastic ‘sliding’ feeling of drawing on a tablet won’t work for the strip. I like the feel of drawing on paper and inking with nibs.
‘Blocking’ just means blocking out how the action gets laid out on the page. In this case I was trying to work out the way Peckinpaw tripped and fell by making the gesture and movement read well in the limited amount of space of the 13″ x 4″ strip. Some artists call this the storyboarding stage. It’s real important to do this before you start drawing the real strip or else you will be erasing and restarting a lot. I always try to avoid a lot of erasing because it can introduce smudges that are hard to get rid of. It can also mess up the surface of the paper making it harder to ink.
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Leroy Brown
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I notice the site for your Ice Cubes webcomic. Do you think you can do other comic book work in the future like maybe Sonic the Hedgehog for IDW?
Leroy Brown
Hi! Sure, I could do work for other comic books if they asked me. Who knows, it could happen! 🙂 Thanks for reading ICECUBES.
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Good Morning Sir: I stumbled across your Leroy Brown/Jim Croce work and was impressed. Great Job. Can you do other animations? I wrote a book several years back that was taken from a record I really enjoyed listening to. I was wondering could you do similar work and what are your cost for a three minute session. Peace
Leroy Brown
Oh wow, that’s really cool! Of course, I did not do the Jim Croce cartoon. That was done way back in 1973 by a man named John Wilson for the Sonny & Cher Show. To do a 3 min. animation like that today would probably cost thousands of dollars. If you would like to see a cartoon I did, go to this link: https://youtu.be/kv1S9MIhqzE?si=ybNZ9cyfQeaoVMab
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