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A sneak preview of what the first six pages of the comic will look like, done as pencilling!
#sketch#pencil#comics#comic page#comic panels#comic preview#80s Comics#mcmcomiccon#mascot character#dark humor#duck humour
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Script First Draft!
Page One
[The scene is a phone call between Heather and the Client, and you will see glimpses of both their surroundings as the call takes place.]
Panel 1 – Heather: [Eating noodles, sat on the sofa with her dog, who is very interested in her food]
Panel 2 – [the landline phone rings]
Panel 3 – Heather: [answering the phone] yello?
Panel 4 – Client: I need you to kill a duck
Panel 5 – Heather: Listen mate, serious inquiries only.
Panel 6 – Client: Trust me, this is serious. You’d be doing a public service. And the pay’ll be well good.
Panel 7 – Heather: How much then?
Panel 8 – Heather: Alright, who am I after?
Panel 9 – Heather: You what!? I- alright, alright, don’t get mardeh. I didn’t say I wouldn’t do it.
Panel 10 – Heather: So where can I find the bloke?
Panel 11 – [long shot of the flat as Heather leaves]
Page Two
[This scene takes place much later, in the evening, after the fair has already closed.]
Panel 1 - Heather: [getting out of her car]
Panel 2 – Heather: [hopping the entrance gate] Now where’ll I find Mr Duck?
Panel 3 – [the target is standing a little ways ahead of her, past the inflatable slide, watching her creepily]
Panel 4 – Heather: Oh. Well... [calls out] ay up, me duck, are you Plucky?
Panel 5 – [the target drops a bag of marbles]
Panel 6 – [the target runs away]
Panel 7 – Heather: Oi!! [she runs after him]
Page Three
Panel 1 – [full body shot as she skids on the marbles]
Panel 2 – [closer up shot as she gets up and starts running after him] Heather: Get back here bird brain!
Panel 3 – Plucky: [running around a candyfloss stand to the right] No need to fly off the handle!
Panel 4 – [wide shot view from the front of duck, showing Heather chasing him]
Panel 5 – [close in shot of her grabbing a net bag of prizes, which contains a bucket and spade and a Mr Potato Head]
Panel 6 – [dynamic shot of her hitting him with the bag of prizes, as it splits open]
Panel 7 – [he grabs the bucket, she grabs the spade]
Page Four
Panel 1 – [he tries to stuff the bucket over her head, only to find that it’s too small]
Panel 2 – [she smacks him with the spade]
Panel 3 – [he runs, she runs after him] Heather: Come back here, shithead!
Panel 4 – Plucky: Such fowl language! [shot from in front of him]
Panel 5 – [close up shot of a baseball bat inside a claw machine]
Panel 6 – [Heather’s eyes light up cartoonishly]
Page Five
Panel 1 – [Heather approaches the claw machine and rummages through her pockets]
Panel 2 – [Plucky approaches her and gives her a coin for the machine]
Panel 3 – [close up shot of her inserting the coin]
Panel 4 & 5 – [they watch the crane move across]
Panel 6 – [the claw lowers and opens]
Panel 7 – [close up of the prize drawer as she wins a stuffed octopus]
Panel 8 – [Plucky and Heather look at each other]
Page Six
Panel 1 – [Plucky runs]
Panel 2 – [Heather runs after him, brandishing the octopus]
Panel 3 – [close up shot of Heather strangling him with the octopus]
Panel 4 – [wide front view shot of Plucky throwing Heather off of his back]
Panel 5 – [Plucky runs to the shooting gallery game and grabs a gun, shooting it at her and spraying water all over her]
Panel 6 – [Heather looks fed up]
Panel 7 – [Heather runs at Plucky] Plucky: WENK!
Panel 8 – [he slips in a puddle of water]
Page Seven
Panel 1 – [wide shot back view of Plucky sitting on Heather]
Panel 2 – [same panel, but dialogue] Heather: get your buttquack out me face!
Panel 3 – [Plucky gets up]
Panel 4 – [Plucky runs] Plucky: not all you’re quacked up to be, ay?
Panel 5 – [Plucky runs through the fortune teller tent whilst Heather gets up and starts running]
Panel 6 – [Plucky pops out of the tent and points behind Heather] Plucky: DUCK!!
Panel 7 – [Heather turns to look, ducking down and putting arms up to shield her head] Heather: You what? Where!?
Panel 8 – [Plucky throws a crystal ball at her] Plucky: not here, bitch!
Page Eight
Panel 1 – [the crystal ball misses Heather] Heather: HEY!!
Panel 2 – Plucky: [running] I just came up with that on the fly!
Panel 3 – Heather [running after him] now I’m not even killing ya for the money, I just want you dead coz I don’t like ya!
Panel 4 – Plucky: that’s coz you’re quackers!
Panel 5 – [Heather grabs some donuts from a donut stand]
Panel 6 – [dynamic shot of Heather frisbeeing donuts at him]
Panel 7 – [close up shot of the donuts bouncing off of the mascot suit]
Page Nine
Panel 1 – [Plucky runs and grabs a slinky, he wraps it around a post]
Panel 2 – [he runs across the path and wraps it around a second post and then runs away]
Panel 3 – [Heather catches up and runs after him]
Panel 4 – [slinky frees itself from the post]
Panel 5 – [same but from the other post]
Panel 6 – [close up shot of her feet as the slinky wraps around her ankles, getting tangled]
Panel 7 – [full body shot of her untangling the slinky and freeing her feet] Heather: I hate these fuckin’ things.
Panel 8 – [she’s free] Heather: right!
Page Ten
Panel 1 – [she runs off to look at him]
Panel 2 – [she’s looking for him whilst he stands among a horror display at the ghost train in the background]
Panel 3 – [close up on him posing amongst fake skeletons and zombies]
Panel 4 – [Heather notices him]
Panel 5 – [He runs]
Panel 6 – [she picks up a pack of balloons and take deodorant out of own pocket]
Panel 7 – [she starts spraying into a balloon]
Page Eleven
Panel 1 – [cut to Plucky, running back around]
Panel 2 – Heather: catch! [throws the balloon at him]
Panel 3 – Plucky: a balloon! [catches]
Panel 4 – [Heather throw a match at him and runs]
Panel 5 – [ka-boom!]
Panel 6 – [Plucky standing there a bit blackened and burnt]
Panel 7 – [Heather runs back towards him]
Page Twelve
Panel 1 – [Heather runs over, pushing over a hot dog stand]
Panel 2 – [close up from-under shot of Plucky squashed under the stand]
Panel 3- Heather: Now you’re a sitting duck!
Panel 4- Plucky: That’s what you think! [he throws a sausage at her]
Panel 5 – Heather: [dodging the sausage] ew!
Panel 6 – [wide out shot to show Heather standing alone, the hot dog stand pushed onto its side, Plucky nowhere to be seen]
Panel 7 – [cut to Plucky, running towards the Kenducky Derby]
Page Thirteen
Panel 1 – [Plucky climbs on top of the Kenducky Derby stand as Heather runs over]
Panel 2 – [Heather picks up a ball from the game] I’m gonna knock you off your roost!
Panel 3 – You’re never gonna hit me!
Panel 4 – I can take a quack at it! [she aims]
Panel 5 – [she throws, hitting him in the face]
Panel 6 – [is knocked back, falling off of the stand]
Panel 7 – [he hastily gets up]
Panel 8 – Heather: get back here! Plucky: duck off!
Page Fourteen
Panel 1 – Plucky: [running towards the hook a duck stand] I give up! I fly the white flag! I surrender!
Panel 2 – Heather: [advancing on him] too late for that bollocks!
Panel 3 – Plucky: [backing away] be reasonable!
Panel 4- Heather: [full-force shoves him]
Panel 5 – [Plucky stumbles and collapses over the outer counter of the hook-a-duck stand]
Panel 6 – [Heather grabs the back of the mascot mask and forces his head forward, a small amount of his face visible] Plucky: Waddle you spend the money on?
Panel 7 – Heather: shut the duck up.
Page Fifteen
Panel 1 – [close up shot of Heather’s hand forcing the duck’s head underwater]
Between panels – Heather: why don’t you wet your beak!?
Panel 2 – [close up shot of duck’s head underwater]
Panel 3 – [long shot of Heather from side view forcibly dunking duck’s head underwater]
Panel 4 – [close in shot of the hook]
Panel 5 – [Heather grabs the hook]
Panel 6 – [Heather raises the hook above her head]
Panel 7 – [close up shot of the hook coming down]
Panel 8 – [close up shot of Heather’s face, newly splattered with blood]
Panel 9 – [wide shot of Heather walking away, having hung the mascot mask up among the prizes at the game] Heather: That went swimmingly.
Page Sixteen
Panel 1 – [narration box states “next morning”, along a tall shot of the client picking up a letter from the floor]
Panel 2 – [close up shot of her opening the envelope]
Panel 3 – [close up shot from the other side showing an origami ninja star with a drawing of a duck with an X through it on it]
Panel 4 – [further out above-angled shot of the client looking at the star and smiling, poster and plans for a new fair on the table]
Panel 5 – [close up shot of Heather’s hands with plasters, bandages, and bruises, opening a can of beer]
Panel 6 – [close up shot of the TV, the news reporting the death of the owner of the Bill ‘N’ Tails Fair, revealing that he was the one in the mascot suit] TV: --and the man found inside the duck costume was none other than Bill Tails, the beloved owner of Bill ‘N’ Tails Travelling Fun Fair, who enjoyed first-hand involvement in his--
Panel 7 – [wide shot of Heather, knocking back a beer, to display her apathy towards this news, the octopus teddy sat next to her on the sofa, her dog asleep on the other side of her]
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Some late stage planning towards the final comic, including thumbnails of panels to come, and an updated sketch of the fairground layout, with a line that indicates the path of the two main characters during the comic.
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Some fairground stall designs. There are two designs for the hook-a-duck stand, because that particular game is important to the plot. I haven’t definitively decided which is the best, and the final design may end up being a combination of the two, taking the best elements of both designs
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Here are some short bios for the other two featured characters in the comic, ironing out some important contextual details.
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A little bio for Heather! I’m also going to write up a little exercise in common Leicester dialect. I wrote that she comes from Leicester, since this is where I’m from, and I felt that the dialogue would come more naturally to me.
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Initial graphite sketch design of the fairground layout. This is a bit too busy, and the second design will be much more simplified, as an average fair would really be laid out.
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A mood board of fairground stalls, including games and food stalls. The most important of these games in terms of my comic is the hook-a-duck stall.
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A mood board of fairground rides that would’ve been common in the 80′s. The fairground will be the venue for the assassination, where the mascot works, so this research will help me design the fairground.
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Designs of the client who hires Heather and layout designs of a room in her home.
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Layout designs of Heather’s rooms, and quick looks at all the tacky clutter taking up space in Heather’s house. I’m going to have another go at the sofa to make the pattern uglier, but the rest should stay fairly the same
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An eyesore of a mood board all about the interior design of the 80′s. Clashing colours, ugly patterns, crimes against sofas, and so on. This will help when I’m designing Heather’s home.
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A quick mood board on landline phones from the 80′s. Heather is more likely to own one of these than a mobile phone.
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A quick bit of research on hand-held phones from the 80′s. Heather probably won’t have one of these, but I thought it was worth looking at.
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A mood board of Argos catalogue pages from the 80′s, featuring items that could be laying around Heather’s home or could be in her pockets.
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A series of designs for the duck mascot. The ones coloured in are the final designs for how the mascot will look. This character is a fairground mascot, and the intended target of the client that hires Heather.
#80s#cartoon#Character Design#original character#dark humor#duck humour#Duck#mascot character#Assassin#mcmcomiccon
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A mood board of cartoon ducks that were famous during the 80′s, of course quite a few of them are Disney ducks, but they still count. I’ve included this in my research because the target that Heather will be attempting to assassinate will be a man in a mascot suit, and that mascot will be a duck.
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