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February 12th, 2007 5:30 PM

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Daddy blues (Short story) posted

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I made this short story in 2006. It was made through a comic book workshop in Bergen, Norway. The course had the writer Simon Spencer* and artist John McCrea* as mentors. It was a very good learning experience to discuss my work with professionals under its development. It doesnt mean that this is a good comic, it just mean that I learned a lot doing it.

Best, Raymond.

*Si Spencer is a British comic book writer, with work appearing in British comics such as Crisis. From 1993 to 1995 he was a regular writer for the Judge Dredd Megazine, creating characters such as Harke & Burr and The Creep as well as working on established characters (e.g. Judge Dredd). Among North American publishers his work has mostly appeared in series published by DC Comics under their Vertigo imprint. A good example of h is Vertigo work is Books of Magick:
Life During Wartime.

Si Spencer has also written for television. He has worked as a staff writer for the BBC’s EastEnders. In March 2006, it was announced in issue 368 of Doctor Who Magazine that he was to write for the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood.

*John McCrea (born 1966 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a comic book artist best known for his collaborations
with writer Garth Ennis.

His earliest work was influenced by John Byrne and Alan Davis. In 1988, after a few years of drawing television and toy tie-ins, he illustrated Ennis’s debut, the political series Troubled Souls, in Crisis, in a realistic style, using acrylic paints and mixed media, but its sequel, the farce For a Few Troubles More, showed him moving a more cartoony direction, a trend which continued with his occasional series Carla Allison in Deadline.

He broke into American comics in 1993, drawing Ennis’s run on DC Comics’s The Demon, followed by its spin-off, Hitman, from 1996 to 2001, on which McCrea developed a versatile drawing style equally at home with goofy humour, action, and subtle characterisation. Hitman issue 34 won the Eisner Award for best single issue in 1999. His wilder, more exaggerated cartooning found an outlet with Dicks, a miniseries spinning off from For a Few Troubles More into more outrageous dialect, sexual and toilet humour, published by Caliber in 1997, with a sequel, Dick s II, from Avatar in 2002.
Since Hitman finished he has drawn a variety of characters for DC, Marvel, Dark Horse Comics,
2000 AD and others.

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