I am settling down to watch the new film of Stephen king's novel 'It'. I have an excellent idea for a drawing. I shall watch the film, then condense everything into a giant comic strip across two A1 pieces of paper.
The film starts off slow - lots of shots of the main characters in a kind of overgrown wasteland. I am being drawn into the film. I am intrigued to see what the character of psychopathic bully Henry Bowers will be like. Who will play him?
Gradually, the character of It - that evil who lurks in the sewers - is introduced. It - or 'Pennywise' (in the book a clown, but here the clown is an distinct kind of cartoon character in the vein of Donald Duck or The New Schmoo perhaps - but more abstract. It is concerned with the placing of a ring... It is unclear where this ring is meant to go - in a certain part of the sewer - or even in the body of one of his minions or servants - also an abstract cartoon animal figure.
I am puzzling how to turn this all into two 8 panel drawings. Is it a good idea? Will I be able to do it? Will it just be the main characters hanging about in a tangled wasteland?
I notice with some interest that Bill, one of the main characters, looks alarmingly like me when I was a kid. I never thought Bill would look like me. In fact, he looks just like me.
Fascinating.
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