Some of the earlier stuff by Rahzzah for Moon Girl.
A warm up doddle if you will.
You can read the whole thing here.
22nd April 2013
Notes: 5
There’s an Untouchables reference (but actually it’s a Battleship Potemkin reference) in panel 1 that’s obscured by the “memory fog.”
Got better drawing cats by this page I guess.
And Moon Girl started off, looks-wise, as a hybrid of the lovely Natalie Portman and my, even lovelier friend, Alexis…she’s since evolved into about 80% Alexis and %20 Olivia Wilde.
…Also, this page represents a collection of the best rendered leather gloves I’ve ever done….
Moon Girl is an golden age hero we re-invented for today’s audiences by re-contextualizing her character into the 1950s.
Read the whole thing on Comixology and order that sucker on right here on South Fellini.
You can also reserve a copy from your local comic shop with the Diamond Order Code: NOV121284
Masked vigilantes wage class warfare from the roof tops of 1950’s New York. Claire is an exiled Russian Princess hiding in New York. When enemies from her old life resurface, the repressed Warrior Queen must fight back.
Moon Girl becomes a champion of the counter culture and inspires others in this era of social revolution to be more-than-human. But in order to defeat Satana, Sugar Plum Faerie, Tiki Bob and the dangerous forces they represent, Moon Girl will have to overcome her own neurosis!
This page got a lil Looney Tunes on me.
Moon Girl is an golden age hero we re-invented for today’s audiences by re-contextualizing her character into the 1950s.
Read the whole thing on Comixology and order that sucker on right here on South Fellini.
You can also reserve a copy from your local comic shop with the Diamond Order Code: NOV121284
Masked vigilantes wage class warfare from the roof tops of 1950’s New York. Claire is an exiled Russian Princess hiding in New York. When enemies from her old life resurface, the repressed Warrior Queen must fight back.
Moon Girl becomes a champion of the counter culture and inspires others in this era of social revolution to be more-than-human. But in order to defeat Satana, Sugar Plum Faerie, Tiki Bob and the dangerous forces they represent, Moon Girl will have to overcome her own neurosis!
Claire’s royal braid (an idea I totally yoinked from “Coming to America) is as smart an idea to wear into a fight as a cape
I set this idea up in issue #2 not knowing how I was gonna have her lose it exactly, but when this flashback showed up in the script the window was open.
Moon Girl is an golden age hero we re-invented for today’s audiences by re-contextualizing her character into the 1950s.
Read the whole thing on Comixology and order that sucker on right here on South Fellini.
You can also reserve a copy from your local comic shop with the Diamond Order Code: NOV121284
Masked vigilantes wage class warfare from the roof tops of 1950’s New York. Claire is an exiled Russian Princess hiding in New York. When enemies from her old life resurface, the repressed Warrior Queen must fight back.
Moon Girl becomes a champion of the counter culture and inspires others in this era of social revolution to be more-than-human. But in order to defeat Satana, Sugar Plum Faerie, Tiki Bob and the dangerous forces they represent, Moon Girl will have to overcome her own neurosis!
so here we got Claire all “Year One” on that ass
trying to put together a crime fighting costume one might actually put together
my idea way back in issue two was that her coat would eventually be turned into her costume (hence the 3 buttons on the sleeve n such ) the idea for the rest of the outfit was thinking that she used pieces of her man’s old soldier uniform (I put a little pin on his hat in issue #2 to give a nod to his past)
so yeah this is Claire and Satana on their separate roads to their respective future looks…Satana has adopted the hood and the red (for some reason she wore green in the original comics) and Claire has got her Mark 1 boots (which I like more than her current ones) high face-concealing collar,goggles, etc..
Moon Girl is an golden age hero we re-invented for today’s audiences by re-contextualizing her character into the 1950s.
Read the whole thing on Comixology and order that sucker on right here on South Fellini.
You can also reserve a copy from your local comic shop with the Diamond Order Code: NOV121284
Masked vigilantes wage class warfare from the roof tops of 1950’s New York. Claire is an exiled Russian Princess hiding in New York. When enemies from her old life resurface, the repressed Warrior Queen must fight back.
Moon Girl becomes a champion of the counter culture and inspires others in this era of social revolution to be more-than-human. But in order to defeat Satana, Sugar Plum Faerie, Tiki Bob and the dangerous forces they represent, Moon Girl will have to overcome her own neurosis!
Fancy steampunky boots and polar bear pelts oh my.
The idea with this flashback was to show the evolution of relationships and the gear.
It’s a blurry line between a functioning suit and a fashion statement.
Moon Girl is an golden age hero we re-invented for today’s audiences by re-contextualizing her character into the 1950s.
Read the whole thing on Comixology and order that sucker on right here on South Fellini.
You can also reserve a copy from your local comic shop with the Diamond Order Code: NOV121284
Masked vigilantes wage class warfare from the roof tops of 1950’s New York. Claire is an exiled Russian Princess hiding in New York. When enemies from her old life resurface, the repressed Warrior Queen must fight back.
Moon Girl becomes a champion of the counter culture and inspires others in this era of social revolution to be more-than-human. But in order to defeat Satana, Sugar Plum Faerie, Tiki Bob and the dangerous forces they represent, Moon Girl will have to overcome her own neurosis!
Moon Girl artist Rahzzah actually did the original covers to DOGS of Mars. They’re much different than Paul Maybury’s interior art and I always dug the way they juxtaposed each other. I think it’s a real testament to the character/creature designs that you can recognize the characters in either interpretation.
There’s a really great pin-up gallery in the back of the graphic novel. We never really spilled the guts from the book but I think I’m going to dig them up next week.
DOGS of Mars is about Nocturnal monsters stalk astronauts marooned on Mars. Zoe is the swashbuckling captain of Earth’s first off-world colony. Isolated on the farthest frontier of civilization, order breaks down when the unfamiliar hostile invades. Zoe faces mutiny, death and dishonor; she must sacrifice her humanity if she hopes to survive.
Read it on Comixology or buy your own copy here on South Fellini.
Oookaaaaaay, whaddaweGOT?
Well,those ad’s of the 1950’s were really….well, they were
Somethin…
2 nerd references on this page (one is pretty obscure AND obscured).
If this ever gets made into a movie, I want Keone Young (Wu in Deadwood) to play that gangster.
You can get a better look at The Commissar’s glass eye here than in the printed version.
Aaaaand I suck at drawing kittens…. Which is insane to me because I spend so much time looking at adorable photos of them.
Moon Girl is an golden age hero we re-invented for today’s audiences by re-contextualizing her character into the 1950s.
Read the whole thing on Comixology and order that sucker on right here on South Fellini.
You can also reserve a copy from your local comic shop with the Diamond Order Code: NOV121284
Masked vigilantes wage class warfare from the roof tops of 1950’s New York. Claire is an exiled Russian Princess hiding in New York. When enemies from her old life resurface, the repressed Warrior Queen must fight back.
Moon Girl becomes a champion of the counter culture and inspires others in this era of social revolution to be more-than-human. But in order to defeat Satana, Sugar Plum Faerie, Tiki Bob and the dangerous forces they represent, Moon Girl will have to overcome her own neurosis!
that’s all I got for this one
We hang out with our pal, Jo to talk about Moon Girl on her podcast; The Pincushion.
It turned into a giggle-fit. Warning: laughs are contagious.
(Foto courtesy of Brave New Worlds where you can grab your very own copy of Moon Girl.)
Here’s a little bit on some costuming influences.
Sugar Plum Faerie’s hairstyle (and her general mod vibe) was sparked by the model Peggy Moffitt.
Tiki Bob’s mask is modeled from a trinket my friend Dee Jay brought back from his honeymoon for me,but with the addition of a big Maori-style tongue.
The high collar on Moon Girls jacket,used to often hide her face, is inspired by pulp hero The Shadow’s scarf.
Moon Girl is an golden age hero we re-invented for today’s audiences by re-contextualizing her character into the 1950s.
Read the whole thing on Comixology and order that sucker on right here on South Fellini.
You can also reserve a copy from your local comic shop with the Diamond Order Code: NOV121284
Masked vigilantes wage class warfare from the roof tops of 1950’s New York. Claire is an exiled Russian Princess hiding in New York. When enemies from her old life resurface, the repressed Warrior Queen must fight back.
Moon Girl becomes a champion of the counter culture and inspires others in this era of social revolution to be more-than-human. But in order to defeat Satana, Sugar Plum Faerie, Tiki Bob and the dangerous forces they represent, Moon Girl will have to overcome her own neurosis!
I don’t care how often that photo of the WW2 sailor kissing the nurse has been homaged…
Moon Girl is an golden age hero we re-invented for today’s audiences by re-contextualizing her character into the 1950s.
Read the whole thing on Comixology and order that sucker on right here on South Fellini.
You can also reserve a copy from your local comic shop with the Diamond Order Code: NOV121284
Masked vigilantes wage class warfare from the roof tops of 1950’s New York. Claire is an exiled Russian Princess hiding in New York. When enemies from her old life resurface, the repressed Warrior Queen must fight back.
Moon Girl becomes a champion of the counter culture and inspires others in this era of social revolution to be more-than-human. But in order to defeat Satana, Sugar Plum Faerie, Tiki Bob and the dangerous forces they represent, Moon Girl will have to overcome her own neurosis!
I, as a general rule, don’t like doing any more than 6 panels to a page MAX because I like to shoot wide cinematic panels as much as possible..and one of the things Johnny Zito and I talked about at the start of the series is our love of Darwyn Cooke’s “New Frontier” and how he uses very few panels per page
And so by not ever really doing a lot of panels on a page, I set a certain rhythm for the book…which worked out great when it came to do a fight scene between Moon Girl and Sugar Plum Faerie. My idea being; instead of doing a fight over, say three pages I crammed in all into one page and 5 times the panels and pulling in super close giving it a drastic frantic rhythm shift.
…At least that was the idea anyway. Did it work? You tell me.
Moon Girl is an golden age hero we re-invented for today’s audiences by re-contextualizing her character into the 1950s.
Read the whole thing on Comixology and order that sucker on right here on South Fellini.
You can also reserve a copy from your local comic shop with the Diamond Order Code: NOV121284
Masked vigilantes wage class warfare from the roof tops of 1950’s New York. Claire is an exiled Russian Princess hiding in New York. When enemies from her old life resurface, the repressed Warrior Queen must fight back.
Moon Girl becomes a champion of the counter culture and inspires others in this era of social revolution to be more-than-human. But in order to defeat Satana, Sugar Plum Faerie, Tiki Bob and the dangerous forces they represent, Moon Girl will have to overcome her own neurosis!
This idea behind the ray gun is that Moon Girl made it from parts she found around the hospital. So, it’s affects on the Vanguard zombies are kinda clinical. We pull the ol’ electricity x-ray here.
There’s another electrocution scene in this very issue, so it was interesting trying to keep them unique. Stay tuned it’s coming up soon.
Moon Girl is an golden age hero we re-invented for today’s audiences by re-contextualizing her character into the 1950s.
Read the whole thing on Comixology and order that sucker on right here on South Fellini.
You can also reserve a copy from your local comic shop with the Diamond Order Code: NOV121284
Masked vigilantes wage class warfare from the roof tops of 1950’s New York. Claire is an exiled Russian Princess hiding in New York. When enemies from her old life resurface, the repressed Warrior Queen must fight back.
Moon Girl becomes a champion of the counter culture and inspires others in this era of social revolution to be more-than-human. But in order to defeat Satana, Sugar Plum Faerie, Tiki Bob and the dangerous forces they represent, Moon Girl will have to overcome her own neurosis!
Here we get a better shot of Moon Girl’s fancy steampunkish si-fi ray gun.
I wanted to try and work a ray gun into her arsenal that wasn’t a ray gun, so when the script came in explaining how she takes down some Vanguards using a homemade defibrillator-type paddle I thought it was the perfect opportunity to get my “ray gun” in there.
I love the idea that Moon Girl makes her own gadgets. It’s probably her Slavic heritage. Those Russians are all natural born engineers.
Moon Girl is an golden age hero we re-invented for today’s audiences by re-contextualizing her character into the 1950s.
Read the whole thing on Comixology and order that sucker on right here on South Fellini.
You can also reserve a copy from your local comic shop with the Diamond Order Code: NOV121284
Masked vigilantes wage class warfare from the roof tops of 1950’s New York. Claire is an exiled Russian Princess hiding in New York. When enemies from her old life resurface, the repressed Warrior Queen must fight back.
Moon Girl becomes a champion of the counter culture and inspires others in this era of social revolution to be more-than-human. But in order to defeat Satana, Sugar Plum Faerie, Tiki Bob and the dangerous forces they represent, Moon Girl will have to overcome her own neurosis!
