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John Byrne’s League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. 2015.
Scott Adsit just posted this image at John’s website and wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen, John Byrne has entered his own No Fly Zone.
I give you the one-time-only, never again, morally depraved, ethically corrupt, unscrupulous, artistically impossible, hideous travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham…the unprecedented and unholy sacrilege of…
John Byrne’s League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. They said it couldn’t be done.
John has since also posted his thoughts on this commission.
I thought quite a bit about how I would handle this piece. The FF1 homage popped into my mind immediately, and I was well pleased when Scott approved the idea on his visit to Byrne Central.
But then there was the question of the STYLE of the piece. I didn’t want the FF aspect to overwhelm the LOEG aspect. It should be something of a “what if,” specifically what if I had really worked on the series.
Since the drawing is in Scott’s LOEG sketchbook, I had a lot of “advice” from the artists who’d already done drawings. I looked thru those pages, kind of soaking them in, and then settled upon the style I used.
If you’d like to see a photo of Scott from his visit to Byrne Central, you can look at this past post here.
Alex Ross ~ the League of Extradorinary Gentlemen (and Lady) of Tina Fey's TV yukfest "30 Rock".
Another Adam Hughes set of gloriousity!