Someone Old, Someone New: Old One Eye vs Gorehead by James McKay

Monday, 13 August 2012

Old One Eye vs Gorehead by James McKay

Was SO thrilled to hear that Flesh was coming back. Not only coming back, but it'd be a direct sequel to my 2nd favourite strip when 2000AD first started. It'll have Trans Time! It'll have cowboys! It'll have outlandish dinosaur gore! And, hopefully, great looking dinosaurs too. Happily, James really delivered on that front and, as soon as i read the first episode, i got in touch with the fella to see if he'd take part in this here project. Straight away i knew what i wanted: The now totally inaccurate, standing bolt upright, portly, big-headed Old One Eye:

Going up against the totally accurate, brilliantly realised Gorehead:

James was up for it alright, but work pressures has meant its taken until now to see just what would happen when the two meet. Fantastic isn't it? But, who's going to win? Ta ever so James for doing this!

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The brief is simple: ask an artist to depict a chosen classic, long out of print British comic character meeting a modern, in print one. Whether they get along and what they're doing is entirely up to the artist - part of the fun of it seeing just what they'll come up with. The only stipulation anyone is given is that it must be black and white, the natural enviroment of the 70's, apart from that its all down to them.
Another feature here will also be a showcase for my slowly growing collection of commissions of Black Max, my favourite ever British comic character.
And convention sketches of those classic 60/70's strips i love so much.