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Influence Map part 1 of 2

by Bobert on January 5, 2011 at 12:00 am
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I know that I’m late in the game, the Influence Map meme circulated the interwebz ages ago. I figure it’s a decent ice-breaker for a new comic to see the influences “behind the curtain”.

My Influences

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Influences 1 & 2 go together: Garfield and my cousin, Albert.

On my sixth birthday, Albert, who is five years older than I am, taught me how to draw Garfield. It was my first official, established, recognizable drawing. I had drawn potato-people and funny faces before then but who knows what they were supposed to look like. Garfield was a frame of reference and I. could. draw. him.

I was so proud of my drawing that, in grade one, I showed my classmate my rendition of Garfield and was sent to the supply closet by my teacher for disrupting class.

Garfield Official Site

Influence 3: Bill Watterson with Calvin & Hobbes.

My parents would pick up the Sunday Sun for the TV schedule pull-out but I would go over to my aunt’s to dig through her Journal subscription to find the weekend colour comics pull-out. Why? For Calvin & Hobbes.

I was hooked on dinosaurs, fighter-jets, UFOs, and abominable snowmen. When I bought the collections, I was surprised to see how my perspective changed from reading only the Sunday strips to reading the dailies. Calvin & Hobbes made me want to draw comic strips.

Calvin and Hobbes on Go Comics.

Influence 4: Todd McFarlane

Todd is from Calgary, so a bit of the ‘local Albertan makes good’ aspect comes into play here. The other part is that Todd drew this fantastically dynamic Spider-man. The energy behind the body placement and the expressions had me drawing Spidey over-and-over again.

Spawn.com

Influence 5: Jim Lee

I was reading Uncanny X-Men during Marc Silvestri’s run and I was enjoying it and when the transition over to Jim Lee’s run happened, I hardly noticed. But when the team went to the Shi’ar home world in their original gold and blue, I noticed something: they weren’t wearing costumes, they were wearing uniforms. That was the thing that stood out to me the most. These heroes didn’t look like they were wearing spandex leotards, or pyjamas with underwear on the outside. They looked like they were wearing cool wetsuits or form-fitting body-armour. I wanted to draw the ‘realistic’ super-hero.

Jim Lee‘s Deviant Art site.

Whoa, this is running long. Part 2 to be posted tomorrow.

-tony

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What Creative Commons means to me

by Gabby on January 3, 2011 at 8:00 am
Posted In: News

I am licensing Legendary Woodsman under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Canada License

This means that you may copy, share, transmit, and adapt the comic as long as you give me credit and you do not make money (or attempt to make money) from the work.

I am doing this because I want you to participate in the legend:

Draw fan-art, write fan-fiction, remove/replace the words from the balloons, and use the comics as a teaching resource. Please, share it with me. If it’s appropriate, I would love to host it on this site. As the archive fills with comic pages, I’d like to see the gallery fill with pictures and the blog fill with stories and links.

You don’t have to be creative to take part. You can print off your favourite pages and hang it on your locker/cubicle/refrigerator, share it with your friends and family by e-mail, social media, or other traditional or non-traditional methods. Any little bit helps.

You are the reason the Woodsman will become legendary.

-tony

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Welcome to LegendaryWoodsman.com

by Bobert on January 1, 2011 at 12:00 am
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Hello and welcome to Legendary Woodsman.

When I was fifteen years-old, I drew my first three-page comic story and fell in love with creating long-form comics. There was something about that initial joy I felt that made me want to recreate that feeling over and over again. I worked on a portfolio to show to the big-name comic book publishers because I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. But… for a while, I strayed away from the long-form comics and drew comic strips for my university paper. It was a blessing in disguise.

It was a freeing experience, drawing comic strips. I learned to become confident with my sense of humour and developed a loose and animated style. There was always something nagging me from the back of my mind, however. I needed to get back to my first love.

This story has been percolating for a long time, revising and rewriting itself over and again. I finally set it to paper and now I’ll be able to share it with you.

I hope you enjoy it!

-tony

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