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Ya know, some of the older strips are just plain creepy looking.
WTF is with Jackies face in the last two pannels?!?!<P>------------------

I dunno. I'd expect earlier stuff to look diffrent. He was prolly still working out the look back then.<P>------------------
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Geeep! That is creepy! Jackie looks like an ant-eater from the side! The characters in the old strips look pretty normal when you view them from the front or from 3/4 view, but from the side..... ::shudder::
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Let ya in on a little secret. The good artists are just the ones who didn't stop after drawing stuff that looked bad.<P> <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/biggrin.gif"><P>------------------
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It's just the way BJ drew them a few years ago. Most artists develop their style constantly. Jackie evolved from what you see above into what you see today over time.<P>Personally I don't think that's all that bad. Far better than I could do, and still better than a lot of the shlock on the web today.<P>-Zodo
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Huh huh, you said <a href="http://schlock.keenspace.com">"Schlock"</a>, huh huh.

"stylistically cohesive"?!?!<P>In the last two frames she looks like some sort of evil horse demon!

Yeah, I know what you mean:
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When BJ first started doing the strip, I remember he deliberately wanted to play with giving the characters the muzzles/snouts you see in the early strips. His WR characters from the same era didn't have this feature. It was one of the features he was experimenting with, along with bigger eyes than the WR characters, and a semi super-deformed look. <P>So, the muzzle wasn't so much a drawing error as it was a failed experiment.<P>--Imp<P>------------------
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I think everybody's got their early stuff that looks a little bizarre by comparison. whenever i pull out some of my drawings from years ago i can't help but wonder <I>what</I> i was thinking. and of course everything seems like a great idea at the time. <P>------------------
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Imp:
<B>and a semi super-deformed look.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>So, is that simply "deformed", or "quasi-deformed", or "slightly deformed", or "kinda deformed" or what?<P>(yes, yes, I'm aware that 'super-deformed' is a style designation. But 'semi-super' sounds funny enough that it's worth making wild guesses.)<P>------------------
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>
Originally posted by Michael Martin:
So, is that simply "deformed", or "quasi-deformed", or "slightly deformed", or "kinda deformed" or what?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>You know, I think I once knew a term that described the "somewhere in between normal manga style and super-deformed style", but it fell out of my head at some point.<P>So, anyone want to help invent a new term to fill the gap. <P>BJ did once do an actual SD Jackie for a poster once. Kawaii ^_^<P>--Imp<P>------------------
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I think perhaps BJ intended Jackie and her friends to be the kangaroo people whom we all remember sneaking into our cookies at night.
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Sneaking INTO the cookies? Or sneaking into the kitchen and RAIDING the cookies?<P>Imp's got it on the head. The snout design was a failed attempt to find a human-heavy animal kinda design. Thing. *ahem*<P>Compared to the stuff I'm doing now, the early JF stuff does look kinda' freaky, and I'm glad I evolved in this direction. I've also drifted a little farther away from the "chan" style I was striving for then.<P>Hm. Gotta find that SD Jackie.<P>------------------
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