I have been reading this strip for … well for a long time and I just noticed today that it appears that Ryan (and possibly Randie) has only 3 fingers and 1 thumb. Is this the way Brig draws all her characters?…. I must go investigate.
(I am fine with the way Brig draws her characters. I just now noticed it and wanted to comment on it. Superb comic! Keep up the good work!)
The stories of Jekyll and Hyde and Jack the Ripper have crossed paths on more than one occasion. One example is the Hammer film “Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde” (yeah, ‘Sister’ as in he turns into a woman) where Jekyll needs women’s spinal fluids to create his potion; to this end he creates the persona of Jack the Ripper and hires Burke and Hare to help him kill people. Lots of fun!
Pete & Astra & Jack… Yah… Write it out, Rye Bread… let it all out on paper… THEN turn that puppy into a Best-Selling novel in Britain… that’d… probably elicit a Shufflebottom hitman (hey… we don’t know what Edbert does…)
Joe… ya gatta call Joe’s Cuppa Joe… number’s in the book. Might take a while to get to you though.
Dada… Now THAT’S creepy! Did you see the movie “Mary Riley”? Of, course you did… yer a creepy sort of fellow. (Jekyll & Hyde from the help’s point of view).
SAH… thank you for the kudos and welcome to the comment circle. Yah… I do the 4 finger thing… I taught myself cartooning with a Walter Foster book (all their characters have the same affliction)… and of course, all the “Dizney” toons do the same. So, I just find the hand less complicated to draw if there’s less fingers involved. I did make one modification… Randie my characters don’t wear gloves.
“Mary Reilly” was all right; it follows the sometimes used but often disappointing trend of ‘using little or no make-up to turn Jekyll into Hyde’. While I can respect this, it takes a LOT of skill to pull it off, and unfortunately too many actors have tried it and failed (most notably Spencer Tracy; I think John Malkovich did all right, although not anything to get up and rave about).
The only thing that I really remember from “Mary Reilly” was the truly shocking transformation scene…curious how it would be so drastic, since the only physical change from Jekyll and Hyde just seemed to be his hair color and a few missing wrinkles!
Oh, yes, back to “Squid Row”….”Squid Row” is great.
You know the old adage, “Write what you know.”
Right now I’m betting Ryan didn’t feel so qualified to write on the subject, though.
Poor Ryan. Time for the “grieving period” to start…
I have been reading this strip for … well for a long time and I just noticed today that it appears that Ryan (and possibly Randie) has only 3 fingers and 1 thumb. Is this the way Brig draws all her characters?…. I must go investigate.
(I am fine with the way Brig draws her characters. I just now noticed it and wanted to comment on it. Superb comic! Keep up the good work!)
Meanwhile… I haven’t gotten my coffee yet. Where is that girl on the Vespid?
“Emily ‘The Heart Ripper Outter'” has a good ring to it. It’ll have the subtitle of ‘Rye Bread’s auto- biography in the UK.’ Now that’s a best seller!
The stories of Jekyll and Hyde and Jack the Ripper have crossed paths on more than one occasion. One example is the Hammer film “Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde” (yeah, ‘Sister’ as in he turns into a woman) where Jekyll needs women’s spinal fluids to create his potion; to this end he creates the persona of Jack the Ripper and hires Burke and Hare to help him kill people. Lots of fun!
Pete & Astra & Jack… Yah… Write it out, Rye Bread… let it all out on paper… THEN turn that puppy into a Best-Selling novel in Britain… that’d… probably elicit a Shufflebottom hitman (hey… we don’t know what Edbert does…)
Joe… ya gatta call Joe’s Cuppa Joe… number’s in the book. Might take a while to get to you though.
Dada… Now THAT’S creepy! Did you see the movie “Mary Riley”? Of, course you did… yer a creepy sort of fellow. (Jekyll & Hyde from the help’s point of view).
SAH… thank you for the kudos and welcome to the comment circle. Yah… I do the 4 finger thing… I taught myself cartooning with a Walter Foster book (all their characters have the same affliction)… and of course, all the “Dizney” toons do the same. So, I just find the hand less complicated to draw if there’s less fingers involved. I did make one modification… Randie my characters don’t wear gloves.
“Mary Reilly” was all right; it follows the sometimes used but often disappointing trend of ‘using little or no make-up to turn Jekyll into Hyde’. While I can respect this, it takes a LOT of skill to pull it off, and unfortunately too many actors have tried it and failed (most notably Spencer Tracy; I think John Malkovich did all right, although not anything to get up and rave about).
The only thing that I really remember from “Mary Reilly” was the truly shocking transformation scene…curious how it would be so drastic, since the only physical change from Jekyll and Hyde just seemed to be his hair color and a few missing wrinkles!
Oh, yes, back to “Squid Row”….”Squid Row” is great.