The Epic of Cuchulainn --- Webcomic
http://cuchulainn.oghme.com/post/p.001
Been reading this comic this morning, which I'm quite impressed by in some ways and totally not impressed in others.
The art history angle is good. They use correct references (i.e. battersea shield). The artist knows thier Celtic art-- which is great. They also put a nice American Indian spin on it with the uber use of crow feathers and other dead animal decorations, giving it that wild-lime-paste-hair look expected of any true Celtic warrior.
What I don't like: the site is way too visually busy and detracts from the comic pages themselves. There is just toooooooo much stuff packed around it... too much flashing stuff too. Enough to make me go into a Pokemon-flashing seizure.
I hope the artist doesnt go into burnout, as the real story of Cuchulainn is very long. Already the first scene of a simple head chopping, takes some four pages to complete. That could have been packed into one single page-- but hey.... who am I to talk? (She who has a single story arch in 260 some pages). Like my comic, it will take four or five years to complete the whole story at the rate it's going.
Over all, I recommend.
posted by Aggie Janicot at
11:01 AM
3 Comments:
Hi, just read your review :)
Well, that's true, the sites are cluttered, and the story will be a long run. For your information, there are already 250 completed pages, on a total of 1200 storyboarded. We've been working on this for four years now, in our spare time.
The illustrator, Mirlikovir wanted to go for a "manga" narative style (well a mix between european and manga), so... there will be a lot of pages of pure action. We're huge fans of GON, a manga series with not a word in it, purely visual. It's one on our big influences. We like films, and we tend to like comics which tell stories, visually, as movies would. But it's a personnal taste (and choice)
Thanks for taking the time to review us.
Ah yes, and a little word from Mirlikovir (aforementioned
illustrator), translated from French by Cathbad (scriptwriter) :
The crow feathers might look "american indian" to you, but all Iron Age cultures used feathers as ornamental parts. And Crows were very important, symbolically, in old Ireland.
As I've been working with archaeologists and museums for quite a time now (I'm 37 and I do that for a living), trust me, when I draw a shield, a sword, a piece of garment or any kind of artifact (anvil, spoon, fibula, whatever) in a page, it's archaeologically correct :)
Hi Aggie. If you'd be interested in an alternative webcomic version of Cú Chulainn's story, you might like to try mine, The Cattle Raid of Cooley. I'm also aiming for archaeological authenticity, but being a different artist with a different voice, it's come out looking a little different.
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