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I expect more big things from this creator soon. He was also co-creator of Dungeons and Drawings with Blanca Martinez in 2013. He has previously worked on the 72Demons project with a a number of other creators and self publishes his work for sale at Conventions and fairs. The book comes straight out of the gun fully and gorgeously realised.Ĭreator Joe Sparrow relocated from Cornwall after taking an art foundation course at Falmouth University, moving to London to study illustration at Kingston University. This latest tome well worth buying for the one that you love. NoBrow are seriously killing it on this series: every book has been an exceptional read.

Part of NoBrow’s excellent 17 x 23 series, The Hunter is due for release on 12th May 2015. It has a real charm and humour to its panels and you could easily see this as a short animation film. This is a book with genuine beauty and, especially in the humble opinion of a life long vegetarian, offers a cracking moral at its end. His prey: reimagined creatures such as the “Heliceros”, a “Man Eating Carnifax” and a “Swooping Megaroc”.Īs with all good fairy tales, this comes back to bite him on his royal arse – as we see later in the story. Bored with being pampered and being waited on hand and foot, this rich blowhard buffoon becomes a blood-thirsty hunter.

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The story is a familiar one in that the central character, the Fourth Earl of Reisenskog, is an arrogant royal full of his own importance. Joe Sparrow has managed to take the fairy tale and give it a tiny spark of the psychedelic. Its pages are chocked full of character and European style “mystery in the woods” beauty. The Preview: The Hunter by Joe Sparrow is a fairy tale with a taste of a darker side, offering gorgeous art, where the colours sink into the page in perfectly constructed animation cell style sequentials. Because the beast is not any mythical animal but is composed of all the hunted prey killed in the past, and is most certainly out for revenge…

Only the legends of a mythical beast excite him now, but when he goes hunting for the creature he quickly discovers that he is outmatched. The Story: In a time centuries before our own, one arrogant hunter has grown bored of sport. Home › Comics › British Comics › Sneak Preview: The Hunter by Joe Sparrow

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It’s not a balance I have the hang of at all (I think I spend way too much time in the second mode), but it struck me as a really elegant idea and it’s really influenced the way I try to approach work. Like you need the space to be really playful and stupid and make mistakes at the beginning of a project because you need that freedom for the good ideas to develop, but then you need to be disciplined and consistent in how you go about actually bringing it to completion. I think he described it as having a ‘playful’ mode, in which you can be totally completely relaxed and experimental, and also a ‘focused’ mode where you’re super inflexible and rule-governed, and how good work usually requires a balance of these two. “This is kind of weird, but there’s a speech by John Cleese where he talks about comedic writing and there was this thing that stuck with me about having two ‘modes’ of working creatively. What is the most valuable piece of artistic advice you have ever received, and from who? Tharsis Sleeps music video directed by Tom Bunker & Nicos Livesey ĭungeons & Drawings ongoing collaborative illustration project with Blanca Martinez

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