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Cc and Colon

Ozoneocean

on Jan. 3, 2006

Page Description:
Cc expresses her true feelings about her companion and prepares to go over and have a chat with Rasovich and maybe Pinky. She reflects on the desert meeting of the first series in her thoughts. Meanwhile there are some nasty whispers in the background.

Commentary:
When I drew the original of this it wasn’t even really about Pinky TA. Cc in the dress was, sort of, because I’d designed that dress for an earlier sketch (the one used in the next page), but the whole thing was just an excuse to play with clothing styles. It went from being a detailed, highly finished of pencil sketch, to a bad colour pencil colour pic, then my sometime collaborator Kim Villimek did a lovely (if very stylised) inked version, and then I did a few digitally coloured versions of just the pencil sketch Cc by herself.
For this final comic version I mixed ALL those incarnations in together: grey pencil sketch, inked stylisation, coloured pencil, and digital colouring. I used them all to make a new image and added this background for the comic.

Oh yes, there’s that stupid joke on “Colon’s” name. Well it’s sort of a dig at that brilliant general and hopeless “Secretary of State” Colin Powel and the way he insists on having his name pronounced… But he had a thing for mispronounced names; his “Sodom” Husain joke got tired VERY quickly. I really felt that saying such a thing in front of the UN constantly was way beneath such an exalted fellow as Powell, and VERY juvenile.

A note:
I've decided to upload one page a day until I catch up with the main site. Just because I like to write about these pages and it's really hard to do that when I upload 10 at a go, (which I hate doing). Meanwhile, if you want to see the latest, just click the “Main site” link.