Jan Bowman’s book, This is Birmingham, has been given the animation promo treatment by Graham D Lock, an animation graduate from Wolverhampton. Very nice it is too:
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Jan Bowman’s book, This is Birmingham, has been given the animation promo treatment by Graham D Lock, an animation graduate from Wolverhampton. Very nice it is too:
I’ve always had mixed feelings about Bowman’s book. While it’s a lovely thing in itself I’m disturbed by how much it owes to Miroslav Sasek’s wonderful series, yet (at least in the edition I looked at) doesn’t credit or even namecheck the originals. Am I alone in seeing the huge debt owed?
Robert, I’m glad you see the link with Sasek. I have to point it out to people.
I was inspired to draw THIS IS BIRMINGHAM by discovering Sasek’s THIS IS NEW YORK in New York, and thought “Birmingham needs a book like this about itself”… I never planned to write a book about the Lunar Society, nor to do it in rhyme. The book wrote itself. I tried to give it a Sasek feel, but apart from getting the eyes to look like his in some places, I don’t think it looks nearly as much like Sasek as I originally imagined.
The new edition is published in August BTW…
Nice job.
Classy work.
I look forward to the sequel!
Marc