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Wednesday 26 April 2017
MY HEART IS STILL A FIREBALL...
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Interesting to see how slightly off-model XL5 is....but to the guy doing the pic back then, it was just another job, it was just a kids' TV show, so meh.
ReplyDeleteThese days you could get someone who, at the same age, could do an on-point rendition with barely any reference needed virtually as a labour of love.
Now, if it was "Space Patrol"l.....
'Slightly' being the operative word, BS, as its chief 'flaw' is that Fireball Junior's a wee bit pointed. However, artists weren't always provided with sufficient reference back then (from all the proper angles), sometimes having to make do with just a few photographs. Still a lovely illustration I'd say.
ReplyDeleteBS raised a point there, which got me thinking, - which did you prefer as a kid, - Fireball or Space Patrol?
ReplyDeleteFor me, it was Space Patrol!
Definitely Fireball. I don't remember with any great clarity actually seeing Space Patrol on TV now, although I know I did because I used to draw the spacecraft thingy. I DO remember seeing it in TV Comic.
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