Brace yourself – Wotan’s on the warpath! Yep, ‘Wotan Walks in
Weimar’, a PARAGON strip by myself and editor/artist Dave Candlish, is getting
ready to strut its stuff on-stage and tinkle a few ivories. (I think the first
episode is pencilled in for PARAGON #15, a couple of issues hence.) It’s actually
a kind of historical-action-comedy-buddy strip, set in Germany, and starring
the two gentlemen in this post here. As you can tell from the date on said
post, it’s been in gestation quite a while – I’m hoping readers will find it
worth the wait. Here’s a sneak preview of a future PARAGON cover for the series
- Dave is drawing the strip in the ‘ligne claire’ style, pioneered by Tintin’s
Hergé, so colourist supremo Jim Cameron has gone for deliberately flat colours
to complement this.
I haven’t asked Dave, but I do wonder if he was inspired by
the movie poster for Hammer’s fantastic ‘The Devil Rides Out’, one of my
favourite films. Or does that just come
to mind because I happen to have said movie poster framed in my living room?
