Comics UK

Hi there !

I'm a french cartoonist and I love popular comics like Beano, Dandy, Buster, Whizzer & Chips etc... I don't know as much as I'd want about british comics (I'm currently discovering them) but I love what I seen. There is so much great characters, so much madness ! So I started to draw some british characters.

Here is Korky :



Dennis :



Minnie :



Roger :



Ivy :



James :



Hope you like them ! I'll do more soon. By the way, I read english easely but I don't speak it so well ; so please take no offense if I don't discuss much on this forum.

Have fun ! I hope I'll find the new Dandy on an international newstand !

Arnaud wrote:I hope I'll find the new Dandy on an international newstand !

...Gosh Arnaud! Your drawings are so good I trust it won't be too long before we'll be finding you in the pages of the Dandy!

- Phil Rushton

very good work, Arnaud! I'm sure we'll see you in print before too long. Please continue with these works.

Looking good Arnaud.

Conor B wrote:Could there be a new forum for fanart? I luv drawing and would like other people to see it (Euan Kerr and Alan Digby already have woo!!)

Example...

I see the first post in this necro thread has broken image tags, no doubt caused by a forum software change. Fixed it in the quote in case anyone wants to see Conor's work.

Really impressive Arnaud, DC Thomson could use those images as a set of pin-ups they're that good. You have a great original style.

Great works - Arnaud and Conor.

You both have nice individual styles.

Thanks folks, glad you like them ! Don't know if I'm good enough to work for DC Thomson but yeah, I'd like to for sure ! Right now I'll do more characters drawings but soon I might submit my artwork to Beano & co There isn't much popular comics magazines in France anymore, that's a shame. So I'll try to find work overseas !

Excellent drawings, Arnuad. I agree with other people's comments, it's a very original style - and very effective too.

As an amateur cartoonist myself, I've gone a bit quiet on my own drawings of late but I've just sent some Billy Whizz samples off to D.C. Thomson in the post. Hopefully they'll arrive at the Beano office intact. If I get any feedback I'll mention it on here.

New one ! Lord Snooty the Third (I'll draw the original one later but I wanted to do a Nigel Parkinson character - he's one of my favourite modern Beano cartoonists)



Jonny : I'll draw Billy Whizz too !

Biffo the bear !

Arnaud wrote:New one ! Lord Snooty the Third (I'll draw the original one later but I wanted to do a Nigel Parkinson character - he's one of my favourite modern Beano cartoonists)

Technically, you already did, as NP draws Dennis!

Good stylized work Arnaud and well accomplished. It'd be good to see a comic strip in that style. Do you have any examples to show us?

If you can draw but cannot write scripts it might be a good idea to redo some existing strips in your own style. DC Thomson will need to know if you have a good storytelling technique. But try not to copy the existing layouts as that will defeat the object.

I actually tried that a while ago, I took one of Graeme Hall's Billy Whizz strips and redrew it in my attempt at a Vic Neill-esque style. The strip I used was the one-off Hall reprint in the Beano last October (shortly before Nick Brennan became the new artist). I kept some of the frames largely the same, but others I changed a fair amount. I also added a few extra jokes in the panels.

If anyone's interested, I could go over what I did for each panel on here as a script form, as I altered the dialogue and script a bit too as I wasn't totally satisfied with the original script as a basis.

Even doing a one frame gag cartoon I spend ages on getting the wording just right. Sometimes I'll change it completely but other times just replace one word.