Groovy Archie Comics Fan Film
on February 25th, 2011I glom this. The Archie Comics grim and gritty fan film Riverdale.
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Jughead is perfect, and I must say, but for that bad dye job, Archie is kinda tasty. The fake freckles look like acne, though.
For those who don’t know, a few year’s back, I was asked by Archie to do a miniseries in my style for their new line-up of comics. Love Archie Comics, but the pay and contract offered were pretty bad. So bad, I was better off self publishing A Distant Soil.
I noticed uber-producer Michael Uslan doing some books for them, and I assume he got a better deal. One of the things in the contract is that you can’t do parodies of Archie Comics, or do anything that might show Archie in a bad light, which might include posting this nifty fan film. Who knows? I was unable to get them to clarify contract points, and we shook hands and walked away. Alas.
Too bad, I would have enjoyed the assignment. I got offered better work later, so it all worked out in the end.
I’m sure my original Archie prelim sketches are around here someplace. I’ll have to dig them up.
Absolutely lousy weather. Must stay offline so I can preserve bandwidth and load some Gone to Amerikay pages to DC’s FTP.
I almost missed the last scene.
I do believe that if you signed that Archie contract, then you would not be able to post this video.
Archie Comics is pretty litigious, so, yeah.
Their WFH contract is a good 30 years behind the times. It’s sad.
And not that there’s anything wrong with inkers, but I don’t want to have my work inked by other people anymore. I was offered a lot of jobs with inkers in the last few years. My work looks best when I ink it myself. One of the reasons I’ve been doing GN’s and nothing else for awhile.