🤗Enjoyed the show! Citizen Kane was a major film influence for many GA artists as were the film style techniques used by comic strip artists like Noel Sickles (Scorchy Smith) , Roy Crane (Wash Tubbs later retitled Captain Easy) and Milt Caniff (Terry and the Pirates) ; Caniff was mentored by Sickles. The use of newspapers , radios and tv screens along with window and door focusing in panels was used in comic strip stories which possibly helped influence Wood's approach. Really enjoyed his combination humorous and serious character drawings in his stories!
In addition to those guys, the artists at DC were all influenced by it. Jerry Robinson mentioned in a few interviews that the DC guys would all get together and go out and watch it looking for new ways to tell stories.
@@xxxvvvxxx4736 Hi XXXVVXXX! Sorry for the wait. Life happens...both good and bad...and it has slowed me down to a crawl. I'm working on multiple videos...and now my plan is to put them all out in November-just before Thanksgiving.
What I find most interesting about the comics/cinema crossover is that much of the blocking in cinema was invented to hide the environment, because full, large sets were incredibly expensive. Likewise, backgrounds can be time consuming to draw, so the comic book blocking did the same as cinema blocking, making the frame feel full and dynamic, without wasting too much time or money.
Your videos are amazing. I especially appreciate the emphasis on relatively unknown characters. I hope you plan on continuing your fine pieces. It is inspiring when I draw. Keep up the good work.
This has been a fascinating look into the process of one of the most revered artists in comic book history. Wally Wood's techniques are well worthy of learning, and this video series is almost required viewing for any potential creator of sequential art(to borrow a term from Will Eisner and Scott McCloud). Please hurry back FizzFop, your audience misses you very much!
@@FizzFop1 Thank you for the reply! I always enjoy your videos. I am sure I was not the only member of your audience who was worried we had lost yet another promising creator. It is good to know you are still out there.
I've always liked Wally Wood's art, creativity, and storytelling techniques. And I was aware of his "22 panels that always work". But your brilliant series devoted to this subject added a whole other layer to my appreciation of Wally Wood's genius. Obviously, a lot of work went into producing this series and it was worth it! I love your selection of images to explain each technique. That "V-Vampires!" one is one of the best exemple of Wally Wood dedication to his art. After all, this was just for a humor story, but Wood still gave all he had to that splash panel. Aside from the multi-layered background you described so astutely, to the row of successive "klek" sound effect from the woman's high heels that not only help set the mood, but also demonstate the rythm and motion of the protagonist in a deceptively simple way. Thank you for this series FizzFop1! This is now the reference I will recommend to someone who doesn't understand why Wally Wood was a genius and a Grandmaster of the artform.
Thanks Ranger Sly! I really wanted to make this special. It really jumped out at me that the videos on the subject were missing out on the concepts that Wood used. The sole focus was on composition and a lot of them never left the reference sheet. The sound effects was something I sort of touched on in passing. I should have focused more on it. That was something he picked up from Eisner. The Spirit stories that Wood worked on have a heavy focus on sound effects.
Thank you for this series. I was unaware of the 22 panels. Never realized the genius that Wally Wood possessed. Please keep doing what you're doing.who knew that learning could be so fun? LOL.
I've loved comics since I can remember, but I have never studied the art form. This was a great exploration of how diffent scene techniques can convey very different messages.
I love your videos, this is my intro to the 22 panels and its very intresting how many of these staple panels I've used in my own comic through osmosis of seeing them in other books and them sticking compositionally sticking in my mind! keep up the good work id love too hear about more of the charelton heroes they have alot out there ideas that they ground quite nicely!
Three stage is a little more complicated. I recently saw it being discussed in relation to Ray Harryhausen, who, according to an article on a Tate Gallery show of his key drawings, was very influenced by a 19th Century English painter named John Martin. I just Googled Martin today, and his apocalyptic visions are worth it. In the few fleeting hours I spent I kept finding more and more. Apparently a lot of Hollywood types of Harryhausen's generation and before were influenced by him. Such as Mr. DeMille and Orson Welles (though I cannot give you references for either). Tn art school one technique I learned was to concentrate on the midground while simplifying foreground and background (that is only one technique). It seems to be what is being discussed, but the only reason he'd use silhouettes is this is a quick sketch. I do recommend looking up Martin (sort of a High Church answer to that unregenerate Swedenborgian William Blake) and, of course Harryhausen's drawings which at first seem pedantic but are actually quite sophisticated.
Hi Christina! It was both fun and frustrating. I read a lot of amazing comics and had fun breaking down his layouts. It was frustrating at times because I kept making new finds which I hadn't covered in the first videos. Oh well, I guess I will keep those findings to myself...for now.
I hope to work in the comic industry or at least make comics for fun and watching this, learning about the thinking process with comics panels has been very awesome
Also after watching this video I realized that I have already been using some of these techniques without even knowing it, in particularly the windowed panel and the through media panel, as a few of the strips I did focused on one of the characters whose job is looking at security cameras and often slacks off by watching TV
Security cameras is a great way to show the reader what's going on. You see that in movies all the time. Scarface with Al Pacino comes to mind...the bad guys attack his home at the end of the movie. You see them storming the house through security cameras. So many of these techniques are just engraved into our heads at this point. They are everywhere in film, TV, advertising...and so on.
Thanks for a great conclusion for the series! It's gonna be shared and rewatched and rewatched and rewatched... Didn't know you also make comics for fun, can one see your work somewhere? Cheers
Always loved wally wood he's up there with frank frazetta.He did after all create power girl's boob window.Could you spotlight another favorite of mine,Mr.murphy anderson?Noone drew the hourman and the hawkman like he did.
I am dyslexic and can't draw for the life of me, but I do have an imagination and can build a story. I have a story that I feel would make a good comic, I want nothing ( except the credit of being the creator ) can you think of anything I can do to tell a comic writer my story. ?
Hi toddevangelista, thanks for watching. While I was doing my research, I came across one of the two panels. It was not a full drawing...a partial layout, and I couldn't make anything out of it. It had part of two heads in the panel. It's drawn very faint-no hard lines and I'm not sure if the photocopy shows all the details. I couldn't figure out what he was trying to convey.
@@toddevangelista There are a lot of recurring concepts in Wood's art that is not covered on the 22 panel reference sheet. I tried to find as many as I could, but I doubt I found them all. I bet if I go back and look I will discover something I missed.
Hi Driiftex! Thank you for your concern. I'm okay. I took on way too many projects this summer. I have been working on a number of videos and I think I might drop them all at once when they 're done. Time has just flown by.
If I may ask could you redo the phantom lady review the music is to loud on that video I can Barely hear you on that video it still a good video it just the music to loud.
@@michaelgarcia5493 I was learning how to mix audio back then...didn't know what I was doing or how different mixes effected UA-cam. Also, it took time to train my ear as to what I was hearing. The Heap, Phantom Lady, and Spacehawk are awful audio mixes. I think I tried 2 channel stereo and it didn't mix well. A lot of people's devices can hear only one channel of audio so they end up hearing half of the sound.
🤗Enjoyed the show! Citizen Kane was a major film influence for many GA artists as were the film style techniques used by comic strip artists like Noel Sickles (Scorchy Smith) , Roy Crane (Wash Tubbs later retitled Captain Easy) and Milt Caniff (Terry and the Pirates) ; Caniff was mentored by Sickles. The use of newspapers , radios and tv screens along with window and door focusing in panels was used in comic strip stories which possibly helped influence Wood's approach. Really enjoyed his combination humorous and serious character drawings in his stories!
In addition to those guys, the artists at DC were all influenced by it. Jerry Robinson mentioned in a few interviews that the DC guys would all get together and go out and watch it looking for new ways to tell stories.
@@FizzFop1 When are you going to make more videos
@@xxxvvvxxx4736 Hi XXXVVXXX! Sorry for the wait. Life happens...both good and bad...and it has slowed me down to a crawl. I'm working on multiple videos...and now my plan is to put them all out in November-just before Thanksgiving.
@@FizzFop1 It's ok man, as long as you put out some new content as soon as possible then I will be happy.
What I find most interesting about the comics/cinema crossover is that much of the blocking in cinema was invented to hide the environment, because full, large sets were incredibly expensive. Likewise, backgrounds can be time consuming to draw, so the comic book blocking did the same as cinema blocking, making the frame feel full and dynamic, without wasting too much time or money.
Oh man I do not make comics but I will say Wally Wood was a genius. I have 4 original weird science, beat to hell but still look cool on the wall.
Your videos are amazing. I especially appreciate the emphasis on relatively unknown characters. I hope you plan on continuing your fine pieces. It is inspiring when I draw. Keep up the good work.
This has been a fascinating look into the process of one of the most revered artists in comic book history. Wally Wood's techniques are well worthy of learning, and this video series is almost required viewing for any potential creator of sequential art(to borrow a term from Will Eisner and Scott McCloud). Please hurry back FizzFop, your audience misses you very much!
Hi sneakyskunk1! I'm working on a number of videos...they are taking more time than typical. I think I'm going to drop a bunch all at once.
@@FizzFop1 Thank you for the reply! I always enjoy your videos. I am sure I was not the only member of your audience who was worried we had lost yet another promising creator. It is good to know you are still out there.
Definitely going to rewatch these four videos again
I've always liked Wally Wood's art, creativity, and storytelling techniques. And I was aware of his "22 panels that always work". But your brilliant series devoted to this subject added a whole other layer to my appreciation of Wally Wood's genius. Obviously, a lot of work went into producing this series and it was worth it! I love your selection of images to explain each technique. That "V-Vampires!" one is one of the best exemple of Wally Wood dedication to his art. After all, this was just for a humor story, but Wood still gave all he had to that splash panel. Aside from the multi-layered background you described so astutely, to the row of successive "klek" sound effect from the woman's high heels that not only help set the mood, but also demonstate the rythm and motion of the protagonist in a deceptively simple way. Thank you for this series FizzFop1! This is now the reference I will recommend to someone who doesn't understand why Wally Wood was a genius and a Grandmaster of the artform.
Thanks Ranger Sly! I really wanted to make this special. It really jumped out at me that the videos on the subject were missing out on the concepts that Wood used. The sole focus was on composition and a lot of them never left the reference sheet.
The sound effects was something I sort of touched on in passing. I should have focused more on it. That was something he picked up from Eisner. The Spirit stories that Wood worked on have a heavy focus on sound effects.
@@FizzFop1 Yes! Now that you mention it, the sound effect was indeed an Eisner influence for sure.
I just found your channel and you make very good videos! I hope you continue making videos and I look forward to watching more!
Thank you for this series. I was unaware of the 22 panels. Never realized the genius that Wally Wood possessed. Please keep doing what you're doing.who knew that learning could be so fun? LOL.
These videos have been awesome definitely Wally Wood's art was amazing so thanks for these videos I really enjoyed them all.
Interesting series of vids. Always nice to see Wally Wood getting more attention.
I've loved comics since I can remember, but I have never studied the art form. This was a great exploration of how diffent scene techniques can convey very different messages.
Terrific series! I really enjoyed learning about the 22 panels, and seeing examples in Wood's own art. Thanks for the videos!
great show Darrin you really help me to learn new stuff about comic history wood was amazing thanks awesome show
I love your videos, this is my intro to the 22 panels and its very intresting how many of these staple panels I've used in my own comic through osmosis of seeing them in other books and them sticking compositionally sticking in my mind! keep up the good work id love too hear about more of the charelton heroes they have alot out there ideas that they ground quite nicely!
Fizz Pop I always did your cool video essays. Very well researched and greater presentation.
Please come back I love your work
Three stage is a little more complicated. I recently saw it being discussed in relation to Ray Harryhausen, who, according to an article on a Tate Gallery show of his key drawings, was very influenced by a 19th Century English painter named John Martin. I just Googled Martin today, and his apocalyptic visions are worth it. In the few fleeting hours I spent I kept finding more and more.
Apparently a lot of Hollywood types of Harryhausen's generation and before were influenced by him. Such as Mr. DeMille and Orson Welles (though I cannot give you references for either). Tn art school one technique I learned was to concentrate on the midground while simplifying foreground and background (that is only one technique).
It seems to be what is being discussed, but the only reason he'd use silhouettes is this is a quick sketch. I do recommend looking up Martin (sort of a High Church answer to that unregenerate Swedenborgian William Blake) and, of course Harryhausen's drawings which at first seem pedantic but are actually quite sophisticated.
This was a good series. I hope to see something similar to this maybe on how manga looks the way it does, just a suggestion.
Excellent mini series and a great resource. Thank you
Excellent series! Thanks again!
Excellent mini-series. It must have been fun breaking away from the usual to try something new.
Hi Christina! It was both fun and frustrating. I read a lot of amazing comics and had fun breaking down his layouts. It was frustrating at times because I kept making new finds which I hadn't covered in the first videos. Oh well, I guess I will keep those findings to myself...for now.
Thank you for the great series of videos. I learned a lot.
I hope to work in the comic industry or at least make comics for fun
and watching this, learning about the thinking process with comics panels has been very awesome
I did this series for people like you Sloth Baby! Don't "hope'...make it happen.
In the most recent Gmod comic I completed I actually used some Hollywood's panel types in particularly the L frame panel type
Also after watching this video I realized that I have already been using some of these techniques without even knowing it, in particularly the windowed panel and the through media panel, as a few of the strips I did focused on one of the characters whose job is looking at security cameras and often slacks off by watching TV
Security cameras is a great way to show the reader what's going on. You see that in movies all the time. Scarface with Al Pacino comes to mind...the bad guys attack his home at the end of the movie. You see them storming the house through security cameras.
So many of these techniques are just engraved into our heads at this point. They are everywhere in film, TV, advertising...and so on.
Muy interesante, muchas gracias por compartir, me encantan los cómics de acción y suspenso.
very awesome and insightful vid!
love the video maybe next time you could do a video on the owl or the super American
Hey Bryce! I've done some reading up on both. They might pop up in the future.
Wish you got more views, your vids are great
Thank You Ooga Booga!
Thanks for a great conclusion for the series! It's gonna be shared and rewatched and rewatched and rewatched...
Didn't know you also make comics for fun, can one see your work somewhere? Cheers
Glad you liked it Cob Crawler! My comics aren't ready for prime time yet.
@@FizzFop1 Alright, I'm looking forward for when they are!
If you are interested I'd show you my short comics online, but I can't post a link to tapas here for some reason.
Always loved wally wood he's up there with frank frazetta.He did after all create power girl's boob window.Could you spotlight another favorite of mine,Mr.murphy anderson?Noone drew the hourman and the hawkman like he did.
When will you cover Victor Fox and his comic company?
Please talk about Fletcher Hanks.
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I am dyslexic and can't draw for the life of me, but I do have an imagination and can build a story. I have a story that I feel would make a good comic, I want nothing ( except the credit of being the creator ) can you think of anything I can do to tell a comic writer my story. ?
Blocking happened in comics first
I hope: some golden age heroes/ press Coming here. I miss them. 😨😭
Larry Hama originally had 24 panels, but 2 were too faint to read. Do we know what the other 2 panels were?
Hi toddevangelista, thanks for watching. While I was doing my research, I came across one of the two panels. It was not a full drawing...a partial layout, and I couldn't make anything out of it. It had part of two heads in the panel. It's drawn very faint-no hard lines and I'm not sure if the photocopy shows all the details. I couldn't figure out what he was trying to convey.
@@FizzFop1 Interesting to think how 2 more panels would've improved comics. Like how the Book of John almost wasn't included in the Bible.
@@toddevangelista There are a lot of recurring concepts in Wood's art that is not covered on the 22 panel reference sheet. I tried to find as many as I could, but I doubt I found them all. I bet if I go back and look I will discover something I missed.
To much months without your videos 😖 i hope all is ok, greetings!
Hi Driiftex! Thank you for your concern. I'm okay. I took on way too many projects this summer. I have been working on a number of videos and I think I might drop them all at once when they 're done. Time has just flown by.
@@FizzFop1 true a few days ago it was 2019 lol
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If I may ask could you redo the phantom lady review the music is to loud on that video I can Barely hear you on that video it still a good video it just the music to loud.
Hi Michael! I'm working on Phantom Lady and Spacehawk. Hope to have them done soon.
@@FizzFop1 oh ok cool I hope I did not sound bad Towards you Or offended you I love your videos Plus you inspire people to make their own books.
@@michaelgarcia5493 I was learning how to mix audio back then...didn't know what I was doing or how different mixes effected UA-cam. Also, it took time to train my ear as to what I was hearing. The Heap, Phantom Lady, and Spacehawk are awful audio mixes. I think I tried 2 channel stereo and it didn't mix well. A lot of people's devices can hear only one channel of audio so they end up hearing half of the sound.
@@FizzFop1 oh ok I under stand hay we all got start some were.
@@michaelgarcia5493 It's one of those things that takes time and experience.