Saturday, July 17, 2021

Space Shark Origins

Here is another Space Shark comic I drew as a kid which I recently inked and cleaned up from the original that was drawn on lined paper with pencil. This is the origin story and shows absolutely no early influence from Star Trek.




Space Shark is one of the few comics from childhood to have survived into my adulthood. Of course in more recent times the origin story has changed a bit. I thought I would share the current origin story from my graphic novel The Collected Gerb's Quarterly Vol 1





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The Collected...
Vol 1
By Patrick Corrigan
Photo book
The Collected Gerb's Quarterly

Monday, July 12, 2021

Space Shark

In between my other comic projects I found myself working on something I'd wanted to do just for fun for a long time. When I self-published my Little Brother graphic novel, being about a soul retrieval I performed on myself to reconnect with and heal a younger part of myself, I included one of the earliest comics I'd ever drawn to honor that young boy of me to see his work actually published. The comic was a four page adventure called Space Shark about a race of space-faring sharks.

In Little Brother, though, I just included what were basically photocopies of my original work, which was drawn in pencil on lined paper. So recently I took those photocopies as if they were my own penciled pages, and I inked them in, trying to stay true to the original lines as if the younger me had done the inking. Then I uploaded them, ran them through a couple filters, and used an editing program to attempt to clean up the splotches as well as the original college-ruled blue lines, leaving, in essence, what the comic may have looked like had the younger me drawn it on actual drawing paper and had finished it off by inking it. 

It was a fun side project and I'm happy to present it here:





NOTE: No endorsement of any dental brands or products is to be
assumed by this comic drawn by a prepubescent boy in the 1970s


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LIttle Brother
Little Brother
By Patrick Corrigan
Photo book

Tuesday, July 6, 2021