The House That Drac Built - page 01
DAJB on Jan. 25, 2008
This is Page 1 of my childhood masterpiece The House That Drac Built. The central character here is me. Or rather, me as I was at the age of fifteen or sixteen. Since then, as you can see from my avatar, I've not changed nearly as much as I might have liked!
Unfortunately, the red ballpoint pen I used has bled (no pun intended!) through the pages over the decades since this comic was made, and so I've retyped some of the text in places. This was solely to ensure it could still be read easily. It took a lot of willpower but I did resist the urge to re-write it at the same time!
plymayer at 10:43PM, May 17, 2009
Those were the days. Most of my stuff from back then is long long gone.
Lemniskate at 1:54AM, March 25, 2008
Ah, yes, it's so hard not to rewrite old stuff...
DAJB at 3:50PM, Jan. 27, 2008
On the other hand ... just look at the trees! ;-) The sad thing is that, while I can look back at these pages and be impressed by some of the work here and there, my art just stagnated after this. I'd obviously reached my peak and I've been in decline ever since!
Abt_Nihil at 11:58AM, Jan. 27, 2008
You drew things way more accurately than I did when I was fourteen or fifteen. Just look at the horse and the carriage! I remember drawing a horse once at the request of a relative's kid, without any reference at all - it was hell, suffice to say.