David Marshall - Comic Book Art | Lucky Seven; The Dee Brown Incident
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Recreating 1990's Wellesley Hills 02481 presented unique challenges. Surface elements were easily attained, personal details were not. Detailed Blog
Script
Working within the editoral process of the The Boston Comics Roundtable of submitting a visual script, the Harvey Kurtzman Method. This means each page is a tight thumbnail layout with complete script.
Form
Like "School Fight!", this story is rendered with traditional media tools. To my surprise, I enjoyed all aspects of ink-on-paper, even hand-lettering!
- 10" x 15" live area on 14" x 17" bristol paper
- Speedball Super Black India Ink
- Short-handle round #4 sable brush
- Ruling pen (borders)
- Speedball nib #512 (straight lines, details)
- Speedball A6 and B5 (lettering)
- Ames Lettering Guide (setting 3.5 default)
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 (production, corrections)
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Lucky Seven: The Dee Brown Incident
(PG; Boston History/Drama) Story and art by David Marshall. In 1990 a black resident and Boston Celtics rookie was stopped in his car and detained by police who concluded without much evidence that he had robbed a nearby bank. Published in Inbound, an anthology by the Boston Comics Roundtable.
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"...Dee Brown, the Boston Celtics' top draft choice, a black math and computer science major, was confronted at gunpoint by police who saw him near the scene of a bank robbery in a white neighborhood..."
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