#Sláine

[meowmeowmeowimacat]

Cat photos of Sláine (last one was where she jumped at the camera)

(2 more cats below cut because it might be long)

Cat photos of Promi (F)

Photos of Snowball (M) (+loaf)

@kittybroker how much for a set of three?

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Sláine

Leonardo Manco

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Sláine miniatures from the Kiss My Axe starter set. I wanted to try doing this kind of comic look with pre-highlights and now I'm almost tempted to touch up the shading, add some bold black linework, and leave em as is? But they'll probably get some colour.

[canmom]

brief comints on some comics

need to find energy to write some more Comics Comints but here are some very brief ones on some comics I read of late...

I read a bunch of Shintaro Kago stuff (The Princess of the Neverending Castle, Dementia 21). truly one of the best to ever do it, and I really need to do some kinda deep dive into what makes his stuff kick so much ass. but Kago's stuff has this absolutely ingenious playfulness to it - obvs it's got the 'fucked up body stuff' ero-guro aspect as a central pillar in which Shintaro Kago is uniquely inventive, but it's also constantly playing around with form in a way that like, you see the ideas getting developed from page to page from 'oh here's a fucked up thing' to the basis of an incredibly abstruse storyline that somehow feels fully coherent in its internal logic, even as the entire panel structure disintegrates into castle noodles.

he's also just both plain very funny and an absolute drawing monster. the two Neverending Castle books (Princess and Twelve Sisters - narratively disconnected but playing off the same ideas) are a special treat, gorgeous huge printings that really let you see all the crazy intricate little details, and the high concept is incredibly productive. Dementia 21 is bit more directly like... not so much commentary so much as using existing social tensions (in this case, caring for old people) as a jumping off point for darkly funny vignettes. also the interview at the back is great for Kago just completely no-selling most of the interviewer's attempts to pry.

started in on Oyasumi Punpun by Inio Asano. and guys. the expressions in this manga! honestly, the level of storytelling confidence is off the charts. I think I'm starting to get some idea of what it's doing and what the recurring interests are, but also damn, there is so much going on here. the manner of stylisation is really fascinating - it's like a great example of a sort of effect you can achieve if you understand realism forwards and backwards and then push it.

the eponymous punpun is heavily minimised in his own story - which is part of the premise, that he is so powerless and so completely failed by the adults who are too caught up in their own shit that he might as well be a cartoon bird. we have recurring invocations of the futility of human connection, it's doing a lot of stuff with religion-as-imaginary-friend and mixing sort of deliberately crude 2D graphical elements or really abstract compositions with the hyper detailed style. it's somehow like... moment to moment it looks super melodramatic but it's sort of processed through this dissociative haze which means the actual story ends up quite low-key.

I can see why people rate this one so highly, can't wait to get my hands on more.

I read some of the Sláine series - the Celtic barbarian character written by Pat Mills. in this case I had the Sláine the King arc, and some of the earlier comics, so I got a taste for the druid airships and stuff. Glenn Fabry's art is astonishing, it's as solid as an Otomo drawing but it doesn't feel sterile, it's got this incredibly expressive aspect, like it does so much to sell our sword-and-sorcery protagonist Sláine as a guy.

I'm someone who tends to read a lot more manga than Western comics in general, which is both a different approach to line and tone and also you tend to have the same artist drawing the whole series - in contrast, with 2000AD comic like this it's really striking seeing both how much value can be achieved with pure monotone, no greys, and also getting to see multiple artists tackle the same character in roughly the same idiom to highly varying results. there are approximately ten billion of these, but I haven't yet been able to track down the Horned God arc which is the one that was recced to me. hopefully soon.

comics are great

[orangezeppelin]

Fuck yeah, Sláine!  I was hoping to finish him in time for St. Patrick's Day but the knotwork took a while to figure out. (That ended up being the theme for the day as I also messed up the timing of my beef and Guinness stew so that's tonight's dinner instead.) I think the effort was well worth it, I'm so happy with this piece. 

Made with black micron pens, alcohol markers, some colored pencil, and white gel pen.

[spaceintruderdetector]

Sláine - 40 volumes

https://archive.org/details/slaine_202301/Sl%C3%A1ine%20%281%29/

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Sláine

Black micron pens, alcohol markers, some colored pencil, and white gel pen.

2023

[eoinb]

A #commission of #sláine had a lot of fun on this, channeling my inner 16 year old! Always loved this character will have to get around to buying the back catalogue! #2000ad #2000adcomics @2000adartcomp @2000adcomic #irishartist #slaine #slainethehornedgod https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgb0JbnqR8B/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[meowmeowmeowimacat]

My mom was having trouble telling our two female tabby cats apart, and i was like ??? they are literally completely different

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Sláine

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Sláine: The Horned God Cover Art by Simon Bisley

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Sláine

CAT SPOTTED!!☆ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

[orangezeppelin]

Evening sketchin' ft. Sláine!

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Clint Langley on Sláine, ABC Warriors, and beyond

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If the eggs are really dragons, a good reason as too why the older eggs don't trust them is the simple fact the newer eggs are just from another dragon's clutch, or a different species altogether.

We can see that the older eggs care about the newer ones through actions, but are still hesitant may very well be instinct lead more than feelings fed.