Saturday, 4 March 2017

KEN REID'S FINAL FACE-ACHE...


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Some time back, I showed you the very first FACE-ACHE strip by KEN REID (from JET #1, cover-dated May 1st 1971), so I thought it would be nice to show his very last strip that was published, in BUSTER, cover-dated March 14th 1987, just over a month after he died (February 2nd).  Ken had started work on another page but never completed it, and I have a copy of that unfinished strip.  However, I'm not at liberty to reveal it at the moment, but that time will eventually come.  (Incidentally, you can refresh your memory of the first strip here.)

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As the years passed, Ken's art, although still meticulously rendered, took on a more stiff appearance and was less 'fluid' than it had once been.  More and more, he started to draw people from a side-on view, which made his pages seem a bit flat.  The first panel of the above page serves as an example of this; look at the unnatural side-on angle of the kids seated at their desks.  They actually appear to be looking off-panel, not at the teachers at the front of the class. 
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2 comments:

  1. Phil S5 March 2017 at 03:33

    Face Ache! Brings back memories. Did you meet Ken Reid?

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  2. Kid5 March 2017 at 09:24

    Never did, unfortunately, PS. He worked from home and posted his work in.

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