If you're following Questionable Content -- and who among us isn't -- then I commend to your attention panel 3 of this strip. One of the pleasures of following QC is the evolution of Jeph Jacques' art. Day to day or through the archives, he's gotten better, more confident; he's never coasted, never been afraid to try something new.
Panel 3 in this strip is, I think, just amazing. I expect her to start moving like a rotoscoped character in an animated film. The posture, the proportions, it's astonishing. You would never have imagined that the artist of strip #1 would ever be able to produce art like this. I am in awe.
This is the second Golden Age of comic strips, and Jeph Jacques is one of its masters.
Posted by Greg at January 26, 2010 9:52 AM
That first strip was from 2003. Compare anything by Charles Schulz when he started doing Peanuts in 1950 to anything he was doing in 1957...a similarly dramatic difference.
I actually read the entire run one very slow night at the reference desk. The evolution in his art is amazing. I *love* the current look.
I also desperately want Hanners to be happy, but that's another story.