![]() ![]() His sound effects are also worth a special look. You can see some orphaned letters off to the right on a few lines. Judging by where some of that text wound up, it looks like Miller shifted all the words just to the left in the final inking stage. You can still clearly see the pencils lines underneath from where he drew the guides with an Ames Guide. It’s impressive to me that the lean to the right is as consistent as it is for someone who isn’t normally a letterer, but it’s still far from great. Also, Miller leans the letters enough to the right that it gives the impression of an italicized - and thus emphasized - font. You can tell because the word balloons have that jagged look. It’s consistent, it’s readable, and it forms the “Sin City” style. There are some serious spacing issues, both in kerning and leading. He’s not a great letterer, but his personal style fits well with this book. (Remember, it was originally serialized in the pages of “Dark Horse Presents.” For a few weeks, it ran at the same time as “John Byrne’s Next Men.” Not a bad anthology right there.) Let’s look at a few specific panels and pages and see what Frank Miller did 25 years ago to create this wondrous graphic novel. So long as the rest of the creative team knows what’s going on, it works. It goes the same for writers: some have notoriously misspelled scripts that would make my eyes burn. It just matters how it looks in final print. Original art is just a step in the production process. If Stan Sakai is the cleanest cartoonist on planet earth, then Frank Miller is his balance. I only have a PDF to review, but for the purposes of this article, it’ll do.įirst, a comparison between the two books: It’s another beast of a book, and it’s available today for $175, if you can find it.Īgain, I’m sort of assuming it’s a beast of a book. Again, this is publishing all the art from the original “Sin City” series, shot in full color and printed at its original size. Today, I’m looking at the “Sin City: The Hard Goodbye Curator’s Collection” book. Yesterday, I reviewed the second “Usagi Yojimbo Gallery Edition” from Dark Horse. ![]()
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