Illustration Station 002 - Action Man Page 5

There have been a good deal of delays, but I finally have the fifth page of the Action-Man Adventures done. For anybody who doesn't know, The Action-Man Adventures is a comic strip I'm doing in the traditions of early 20th century comics like Little Nemo in Slumberland and Krazy Kat.

Each page is something of a new adventure in composition and how that effects the storytelling. Page 5 is heavily influenced by George Herriman's Krazy Kay. Herriman didn't draw boxes around all of the panels in his comic strips. To me, it gives Krazy Kat a chaotic energy. You know where the boxes would be, but with that line being implied, your eyes just move between panels in a different way then if there were gutters. (gutters are the spaces between comic pannels.)

I can't really post the entire page, but I've got a little preview panel.

And work on page six has already begun.