Sister Rex is a very Frank Miller-y character, isn't she? Evil nun plus evil doctor. She owes a little to the Surgeon General in particular, from Miller and Dave Gibbons' MARTHA WASHINGTON books 💉


Finally watched Lars Von Trier's 1991 EUROPA (aka 'Zentropa'). Sin City meets Eraserhead - none of these images are promo art, they're all frames from the movie. Rear projection sorcery. It's on HBO Max, get into it if you want to nurse a bad, anxious mood 🕚




Most of the super stylized "hey, maybe I could make comics too" guys we were inspired by in high school (Frank Miller and Mike Mignola especially) tend to have narrative conventions that're pretty easy to ape. I bet we could all write decent, passable Hellboy or Sin City story.


But Paul Grist's work is so conceptially dense and narratively complex that it's basically impossible to fake- like, these pages are all from the same comic, JACK STAFF. I've been trying to get my head around it for years, with LAVENDER JACK (no relation) being my latest attempt.




I tried doing LAVENDER JACK in the storytelling styles of: 🥃 SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR era Frank Miller ~and~ ⚰️HELLBOY: WAKE THE DEVIL era Mike Mignola (which is harder than it looks)

