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SofieGraham β Mortal Engines Comic Part 1
Published: 2009-05-01 17:56:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 19029; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 3252
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This was a for comic strip uni projct, and I chose mine to be an extract from the book Mortal Engines by Phillip Reeve. It's the part where Shrike (or Grike to you american folks) tells Hester his 'hearts desire' which apparently is to kill her and have her resurrected as a stalker. nifty.So this is the first of three pages. I know it's not quite exactly as the book is, I had to cut a few lines here and there to fit it into three pages.
Anyways, it'd be cool to see what people who have read the book think about this, so all comments/critique welcome.
This project is worth a grand total of 2% of my final university grade.
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Comments: 31
OMG
It's awesome!
Do aΒ Mortal Engines comic book please
I'lll buy it.
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This is great! Remind me, who's the headless dude on the ground?
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It's Mungo, a pirate.
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Love the book, love the comic and love the Shrike you've envisaged
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here's what i want you to draw
the ruins of london
a limpet
stalker fang (after Shrike killed her)
General Naga
an army of Stalkers
you probably won't draw any of these but a man can dream can't he?
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This is really good. i played with the idea of doing it myself! well great minds think alike
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Wow, I love this! So expressive and alive. It is a lot like I personally imagined that particular scene, really.
Though I must say I love your interpretation of Shrike here - In my mind his entire construction was much more "coarse" and heavy and mechanical, but this makes a lot more sense given what his purpose is.
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Good! I did always imagine him rather heavier too- rathe like comparing a 1963 dalek (Your shrike) and a 2005 dalek (My shrike). But hey, each to their own and this has been done very well.
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really good!! Huge fan of this series.....like your take on shrike! very different!!
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Why is everyone calling him shrike? it's GRIKE.
By the way. Awesome comic.
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His original name is Shrike. Philip Reeve is an English author, and when the books were published in England Shrike was called Shrike (named after a type of bird). However when the books were re-printed for America, they changed Shrike's name to Grike as the word Shrike is ALSO the name of a type of gun, and the publishers decided that this would hold negative connotations in America so they changed Shrike to Grike.
oh and thank you!
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oh... XD
and no problem...
WHY DO AUTHORS HAVE THE STRANGEST WAY OF CONFUSING PEOPLE! XD lawl
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I love all four of these books and have read them several times. I have been thinking for a while that they should be made into comics and I love your art style! You have captured something of the climatic essence of that scene, that conversation on a hill at the end of the world.
Anyway, I would actually pay you to make the whole first book into a graphic novel (and maybe the remaining 3 as well). Contact me if you are interested, my email is: alexwood020589@googlemail.com
I am based in Southampton in the UK.
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Thanks very much, glad you liked the comic! I did enjoy this scene in the book. Even if I wanted to create this as an entire comic, I do not have time to do so right now, but I appreciate it!
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I love all four of these books and have read them several times. I have been thinking for a while that they should be made into comics and I love your art style! You have captured something of the climatic essence of that scene, that conversation on a hill at the end of the world.
Anyway, I would actually pay you to make the whole first book into a graphic novel (and maybe the remaining 3 as well). Contact me if you are interested, my email is: alexwood020589@googlemail.com
I am based in Southampton in the UK.
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WOOOO 2% well I think it's a VERY grand 2% indeed!
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Because Grike was my favorite character and this artwork was so well done, I will fave it. Also, seeing work as beautiful as this from a fellow deviantart person, for some reason, gives me hope for my own work. I dunno ow to explain it, ;^^ something about your artwork.... it just has this feeling of relaxed professionalism, you're good, but you don't think you're better than those who aren't as good. I should keep an eye on you.
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thats very kind thanks! Glad you liked the comic!
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...and then Tom runs in and gets a hit in on Shrike's ''weakpoint for MASSIVE DAMAGE!''
I love the helmet you gave Shrike, exactly as I imagined!
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I like how you drew Hester and Grike. Is that her on the cover of the book?
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Love this book
and great representation in your comic strip
I especially like the last box
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Good job! Shrike/Grike rules! And this one actually looks like I imagined him.
I really liked this scene. Before I read it, I was like "Damn, some one really needs to take care of that guy (Shrike)" But then I read this and I though "Wow. He's like Darth Vader and stuff, cause he cares for Hester." The whole Hester/Shrike relationship really made the book for me, and I was glad Shrike didn't die at the end. I mean, Hester's relation with Tom is cool and all (angst-fueled crazy plans FTW) but Tom's human, and Shrikes a freakin' zombie-robot or whatever. The perfect odd couple.
Can't wait to read the rest of these!
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WOWWWW these comics are so professionally done! I love them. Your character designs are very true to the book, the colouring and composition are fantastic, and the dialogue is identical to the original script.
Definitely by far the best fan art of mortal engines I have ever seen. Can I ask what course you are doing at university?
Thanks for creating such great work
Lauri
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Hi there! thanks for the lovely comments on my work, very pleasing! At uni I am doing video game design, mostly the concept art side of it, it's much fun! This was done for a 'Drawing and Composition' module.
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Oh my, this book is always put in the wrong section; I read it a while ago, back when he finished the fourth one. They market it as a kids book but I think it's a good book even if you are older. The writing is a bit iffy early on, and simple, but you can see him (Reeve that is)improving through the series. Brilliant ideas and concepts in it though. This is a series I'd love to see done up as a full comic one day, I think it would do well in a visual medium, but perhaps half the fun is the different stuff people come up with, I don't think anybody's idea of shrike looks alike, hehe.
Yours is a great tribute to the series; what strikes me most is your colours, especially for the background, they fit great.
For making even a fraction of the book tangible, well...
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thanks! I love seeing different peoples renditions of shrike, they are so different it's fascinating! There isn't a great deal of 'fan art' out there for this series, but it certainly has a lot of interesting concepts built into it which would look ace if they were fully visualised. thanks for the fav!
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It makes me want to read the book, I must say! Frame 1, 2 and 6 well done, those are actually hard perspectives for me (and I hear, for most people).
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Thankyou! I must say I'm dreadful with perspectives, but I reckon I'll improve in time. You should read the book if you haven't, it's all about cities which move accross the earth on massive wheels and devour other cities. Oh, and immortal resurrected cyborgs.
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My my, sounds intrigueing. 0o Last city-on-wheels I ever saw or heard about was in the Utena movie... and that was mostly crack.
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