#chester square

[travelling-my-little-pony]

It's the first day of the month, so it's Love Wishes with a leterbox day!

Here is Love Wishes with a letterbox in Chester Square. In London, England.

[ghoststudios-art-page]

Trying to trick myself into doing Archie art stuff for Greendale yearbook, this is what I normally do, just, oodles of doodles.

I'm also forcing myself to draw the gang more, as I feel like I just draw Jug and that's not fair to the other.

(Of course I drew Archie being a perv, but, ya gotta, as he is one.

But it's funny because his actual ma is in the first drawing he got hit in the head with a basketball)

Long list of name in tags, if they didn't have a canon last name I'm added one in (an replacing one because it's so basic)

[theblackestofsuns]

"Chester Square"

Perla La Loca (2007)

Jaime Hernandez

Fantagraphics Books

[theblackestofsuns]

“Aren’t You That Guy?”

Check out the Love & Rockets reference in the fourth panel!

Fatale #19 (January 2014)

Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips and Elizabeth Breitweiser

Image Comics

[jhsharman]

Chester Square

This was the one time Chester Square's hair was blonde, so it is fixed in post.

I looked up "famous Chesters" to see any notables. I know Chester Arthur. I know Chester Brown. I guess there is Chet Atkins on this list, but when you cease going as "Chester" I don't know that it counts.

Then there are cartoon with fixations on geometric shapes that are in their name. Little Dot.

[theblackestofsuns]

Love & Rockets #40 (January 1993), Part 8

In this sequence, it’s the reader’s perspective that’s moving around Maggie as she remains in the same spot, standing still and waiting for the bus to take her away from Chester Square.

She has her back to the truck full of workers as they drive away, and she has her back to the security guard as he arrives for another day’s work. Through both of those panels, she’s focused away from them and toward the oncoming bus.

But it never stops. And here she stays.

Beautiful.

[theblackestofsuns]

Love & Rockets #40 (January 1993), Part 7

This is an amazing scene. I’m only posting these three panels, which sort of conclude the action up to that point.

At top, that’s a fairly typical drawing of Maggie in Chester Square. The focus is entirely on the money left on the night stand. It’s also important, all over again, that Maggie’s alone in the frame, because right after that comes a shot of the open space outside her door where the working men were resting and drinking until a short time ago. That space is now empty too. She’s alone inside the room and outside the room.

The third panel is one of my favorite drawings of Maggie ever. I look at it and think “What is she thinking?” And then it occurs to me that she’s probably thinking some version of “What AM I thinking?” I prefer to believe that Maggie’s smart enough to favor questions over answers. I think she’s shown herself to be that kind of person.

The truth in Love & Rockets, the substance of living and being, is never obvious or simple, but it’s always honest. I think that Maggie’s not sure what just happened, but that she’s also not in any kind of rush to figure it out and nail it down.

The look in her eyes... I guess that’s for each reader to try to interpret for themselves.

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Love & Rockets #40 (January 1993), Part 6

Only five of these six panels show Maggie’s face, but they’re all different faces and they’re all great. I especially like the first one, where her eyes are big enough to contain a tiny point of white that makes them more realistic. 

The cards tossed in the second panel are only a warm-up for that flying shoe in the fourth, which is a perfect cartoon note.

Of course, despite her bravado and her attempt to be strong and daring, the Maggie we know and love comes through in the final frame. Her face perfectly depicts the hero who’s been caught out.