Toronto said at 8:44 PM 02-23-2002: Nifty... have you read H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds"? The Eyepod looks just like the Martian invasion-destroyer-thingys.
zack [email] said at 8:57 PM 02-23-2002: Yeah- I've never actually read the book, but ever since then, the tripod has been a re-occurring motif in sci-fi.. I'm definitely riffing on that.. and Pac-Man too I guess. There was a great British BBC series called "the Tripods" that was just as influential on me as anything else. I saw the tape collection of it as a youngster, I think it was a two tape dealie and it had these kids travelling across England to find a way to defeat the evil alien oppressors that had enslaved mankind. They of course were only seen in their giant tripod machines, overlooking all with cold death vision.
Toronto said at 10:07 PM 02-23-2002: I've actually seen some of "The Tripods", and was immediately reminded of War of the Worlds. If you're interested, there's a fairly in-depth web site devoted to the series at http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/Tripods.html.
I have a copy of War of the Worlds here at home. It has the original illustrations that appeared when it was first published. If my scanner were working, I'd scan some of the pics for you. If you're at all interested in Sci-Fi, you really should read some of his books... the guy was WAY ahead of his time.
I can definitely see the Pac-Man reference in Blinky, both in name and form. He also has a bit of He-Man and Captain Caveman in him, too.
Just out of curiosity, was this pic done on paper and scanned, or did you make it with a graphics tablet?
zack [email] said at 4:27 AM 02-24-2002: I'll kill you both! No, just kidding...
Yeah, I did the drawing in photoshop with a pen/tablet dealiebopper. I also printed out the layers seperately and did a simpler silkscreened version with just the orange and red over a mottled grey-blue background.
Sure enough there's remnants of He-Man, Pac-man, all the good "-Man" media flotsam... Can't resist that nostalgia-based reflexive recycling. I'm not so sure about Captain Caveman, but whatever floats your boat.
milky [email] said at 10:00 AM 02-24-2002: I think he means Captain Caveman because Blink looks to have fur, slightly, from this drawing (not so because I know it is yor drawing style) and Captain Caveman was more or less a furry Ghost Monster with arms and stubby feet.
Whew...that was tough, analyzing someone else's interpretation of a drawing.
josh [email] said at 3:43 PM 02-24-2002: Tripods is, I think, a "what if they didn't die from the germs" war of the world thing. Or at least that's what I was told.
The show, which I watched as a kid too, was based on a series of books.
