Cleaning around I found some of my old comics from the late 80s and early 90s. Here is an example of an obsolete art technique I used to love. It's the last time I used manual Screentone sheets, also called Zip-a-Tone or Letratone. Nowadays you can use their digital equivalent, but there was something magical about cutting them with an X-acto knife and applying them to the paper. You could create interesting effects by adding more than one layer. you had to be careful because they were like Scotch Tape, and could stick to themselves or get stuck in the wrong place.
They were kind of expensive, though, so I often cheated by photocopying them. This however is the last time when I used the real thing.
The comic is an early 90s remake of a comic I made in the 1980s called "The Gem". It was a science fiction parody of The Three Musketeers, where the villain used a piece of jewelry to blackmail the Queen and both Pinton and a couple of spies were after the McGuffin diamond. I had a second part called "Kill the Pig" in which the defeated villain put a price on Pinton's head and it was just continuous chases and fighting off assassins.
The guy with four eyes was the spy and the insectoid next to him was his not-too-bright sidekick. At the beginning of the story, Four Eyes has the mohawk and the other has antennae, but after chasing Pinton's ship through hyperspace without proper calculations, their bodies get fused together and their headtops get swapped. In 2000, the movie Supernova came out with the same concept. Hollywood is always stealing my ideas. ( ᐢ (oo) ᐢ )
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