I've always wanted to draw a 3-D comic. I fell in love with 3-D comics when I put on the special glasses and read a friend's copy of Three Dimensional E.C. Classics, printed in Anaglyph 3D in 1954. Looking at the eye-popping Wallace Wood art that he'd drawn and separated especially for 3-D...WOW!
I bought and devoured the book Amazing 3-D. It detailed the history of 3-D, including the early 1950s heyday of the process in both film and comic books. My 3-D fever was reheated when I attended the Music Box Theatre in Chicago for their 3D film festival. Two synched projectors were installed to run prints in the original dual-strip process. Films screened included It Came From Outer Space, Dial "M" For Murder, The Maze, and the amazing Three Stooges short, Spooks.
"3-DIMENSIONS!" A send-up of 3-D by Kurtzman and Wood from Mad #12.
Have you seen the movie Robot Monster? It's a low budget 1950s sci-fi film. And by "low budget," I mean dirt cheap. And by "sci-fi," I mean braindead stupid. But it is goofy fun, in the sort of way that only an amateur film could be. Along with the similarly incompetent Plan 9 From Outer Space, it was a winner of the Golden Turkey Award. In other words, people enjoy laughing at it.
I've written and drawn a story for Robot Monster Comics in 3-D. Since the film is already a target of organized ridicule, a straightforward parody would be pointless. So I had to find another way to do a humorous take on the film. Here's a pencilled panel from the story. What's that? You're not wearing your special 3-D glasses?
And here's an inked panel. I've tried to throw everything at the reader, employing the lessons in depth and layering I've learned from studying Wood and other masters of comics illustration. And I had a blast!
Robot Monster Comics in 3-D was successfully funded on kickstarter, and is expected to see print by the end of the year.
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