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HH
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Al B. Harper

Subj: Tears are vegan, right?
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 at 08:46:52 am EST (Viewed 2 times)
Reply Subj: Nothing for the vegetarians?
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 at 07:36:00 am EST (Viewed 2 times)



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        More good stuff here. Enjoyed it all. This is shaping up to something big...will there be another shocking revelation next issue? I hope so![/quote

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            I'm not quite sure how far the story will get next issue. It might be a concluding episode or it might be part of a longer storyline; I'll only know when I get round to writing it.



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        Chop chop!


      When the PVB comes up with £500 per diem to match the people who want me to write business reports for them then there'll be chopping.


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          Apropos of nothing, this is the first PV reply I've typed since being pointed to the blog of the artist doing the interior work on my Robin Hood: King of Sherwood book. His page at http://homepage.mac.com/robmdavis/iblog/index.html includes some of his images for that volume for those who are interested.



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        Hey cool. That must feel good - seeing someone depict your story and all that?


      The other stories are illustrated too, but it was somewhat strange to see this particular narrative in pictures. I tend not to visualise scenes in that way, more how they'd play on stage.

      The whole Robin Hood book was an interesting achemical brew, really. I wanted to do a straight adventure story, in the Ivanhoe tradition. I also wanted to reinterpret the myth for a modern audience, in the footsteps of T.H. White with The Once and Future King. Airship 27, the publisher, specialises in continuing the pulp fiction traditions of the 20s. So I wanted a Saturday morning serial-style historic/political thriller with mythic resonances featuring a swashbuckling hero, feisty heroine, and moustache-twirling villains, and lots of torn bodices.

      I also wanted to supply an origin that offers some motivation through an actual story arc. Pretty much every interpetation of Robin Hood I've seen either starts with him in situ robbing the rich to give to the poor or offers a tragic backstory that accounts for his noble deeds. I decided he was a too-smart-for-his-own-good up and coming tearaway con artist who came smack up against a knight's daughter with very strong social principles and a lethal ability to involve him in her causes. The first volume really shows them inventing Robin Hood as they progress; by the end of the story he's become the legend they made.


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        Can't say I care overly-much for his Robin (looks too thin and, well, the word that comes to mind is 'dorky'). But hey, he can draw much better than me so who am I to criticise.


      Rob is specially interested in that era and has also illustrated a comic book series about a female Robin Hood.