Cartier Tour, Mendacity Wilson, Tyler Wilson images and characters © Michael Chevy Castranova 2015 |
One of the cool
things about Chris Schweizer’s very cool 2011 “Sketchbooks,” which I picked up
at the Cartoons Columbus Crossroads earlier this month, is it’s a true
sketchbook.
As he notes in the
introduction, lots of so-called sketchbooks in fact show finished art. His book
intentionally shows works in progress. You can see how he arrived at the ideas,
the characters’ looks, that he ultimately used.
Very cool.
Meanwhile, in
chapter 353 of “Slipped,” the wildebeest Delacroix somehow convinces Cartier
Tour, the chrono-bounty hunter, to accompany Tyler Wilson and Pip on their part
of the elaborate and, frankly, dangerous mission with which he’s tasked them.
Part Star Wars,
part Seven Samurai.
Take a look,
please. A new adventure is about to begin for the reluctant Scarlet Sparrow.