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Proofreaders • John Morrow & Eric Nolen-Weathington 3 Transcription • Steven Tice For more great information on cartooning and animation, visit our Web site at: www.drawmagazine.com THE CRUSTY CRITIC Front Cover Illustration DRAWING SUPPLIES AND PRODUCT STEPHEN D ESTEFANO 20 REVIEWS BY ANDE PARKS and BILL WRAY INKING A STEP BY STEP TUTORIAL ON INKING AND 24 STYLE TECHNIQUES BY DRAW! EDITOR, MIKE MANLEY SUBSCRIBE TO DRAW! Four quarterly issues for $20 US Standard Mail, $32 US First Class Mail ($40 Canada, Elsewhere: $44 Surface, $60 Airmail). CARTOONING & We accept US check, money order, Visa and Mastercard at TwoMorrows, ANIMATION 1812 Park Dr., Raleigh, NC 27605, (919) 833-8092 32 AN INTERVIEW AND DEMO WITH STEPHEN D ESTEFANO E-mail: [email protected] ADVERTISE IN DRAW! See page 2 for ad rates and specifications. PHOTOSHOP TECHNIQUES A STEP BY STEP TUTORIAL ON ILLUSTRATING IN DRAW! PHOTOSHOP WITH CELIA CALLE SPRING 2003, Vol. 1, No. 6 was pMroicdhuaceel Md abnyleAyc, tEiodnitoPr,laJnoehtnIMnco.rraonwd , 37 Ppubliisshheerd. EbdyitoTrwiaolMAdodrrroeswssisPPubOliBshoixn2g1. 29, Upper Darby, PA 19082. Subscription Address: TwoMorrows Publishing, 1812 Park Dr., Raleigh, NC 27605. and its logo are trademarks of Action Planet Inc. All contributions herein aDreRAcoWp!yright 2003 by their respective contributors. Action Planet Inc. and TwoMorrows Publishing accept no responsibility for unsolicited submissions. All artwork herein is copyright the year of production, its creator (if work-for-hire, the entity which contracted said artwork); the characters featured in said artwork are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners; and said art - work or other trademarked material is printed in these pages with the consent of the copyright holder and/or for journalistic, educational and historical purposes with no infringement intended or implied.Batman,Superman,Bizarro,Lois Lane, Starman,Mxyzptlk, ’Mazing Man, Lobo, Aquaman, Aqualad, Batgirl, The Legion, Fight for Tomorrow, Vigilante, Live Wire are TM and © 2003 DC COMICS • Monroe © 2003 E. C. Publications Inc. • Dexter’s Lab, Samurai Jack, Zesty THE FIGURE IN LIGHT Relish © TM Cartoon Network • Hellboy Jr. TM and © 2003 Mike Mignola • AND SHADOW Dennis the Menace TM and © 2003 King Features Syndicate. Storm, Wolverine, WITH BRET BLEVINS MechaniX, Spirits of Vengence TM and © 2003 Marvel Characters, Inc. • Elvira 78 ® TM and © 2003 Queen “B” productions • Popeye © and TM King Features • Big Blown Baby TM and © 2003 Bill Wray. Ren & Stimpy, Wild Thornberrys TM and © Viacom International Inc. This entire issue is © 2003 Action Planet Inc. and TwoMorrows Publishing and may not be reprinted or retransmitted without written permission of the copyright holders. Printed in Canada. FIRST PRINTING. FROM THE EDITOR It’s Spring! And this youngish man’s fancy has turned once again to art and the oncoming Con Season. By the time you read this I will have attended the Wizard show here in my home town of Philly. I will also be attending the San Diego Comicon again this year along with fellow s n i DRAW! contributor Bret Blevins. Keep up on all the news via our web site: v e l www.drawmagazine.com . B t e r B I’d like to thank once again the great contributors to this issue Bill Wray, Stephen DeStefano, y b Celia Calle, Ande Parks (whose beautiful wife Cynthia, just gave birth to their son Henry— n o i congrats!) and of course Mr. Blevins, who by the way has a great sketchbook available via his t a t web site: optimisticstudios .com . e r p r e t I’d also urge you to check out Bill Wray’s great site: www.bigblownbaby.com and Celia n i e Calle’s web site: www.celiacalle.com for more great work by these artists. I had to cut the let - v i t ters page this issue due to a r u space constraints and delay g i F the comic section until our October issue, DRAW! #8. I continue to build out the web site and our message board is a great place to stay in touch for news, see sketches and cool art, or get a critique or pointer from me and some of the other DRAW! contributors. I have uploaded a continuation of my inking tutorial I started in this issue. 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Editor Mike Manley catches up with the boundary pushing artist. From the glory days of Ren & Stimpy , his own hilarious comic tribute to Jack “KING” Kirby, BILL Big Blown Baby , to Hellboy Jr. , his monthly gig at Mad magazine with “Monroe,” Wray remains one of the busiest and funniest artists working in both animation and comics. THIS INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED VIA THE INTERNET AND COPY-EDITED BY THE ARTIST WRAY DRAW!: Tell us a bit about your background, your childhood. Were comics and animation important to you? BILL WRAY: Yes, I lived for Carl Barks, died for Bugs Bunny cartoons and learned to masturbate copying Little Annie Fanny . DRAW!: OK, maybe some things should stay private! When did you start drawing or reading comics? BILL WRAY: I was looking at comics before I could read them. DRAW! • SPRING 2003 3 CARTOONING BILL WRAY shot, so we lived in a French villa. A thunderstorm knocked a DRAW!: So you mostly grew up in California? Do you think huge tree down in our back yard. My Dad had it re-planted the proximity to L.A. helped getting into the biz? upside down and had wood planks nailed to the root mass to from a platform. I would climb up and look all over the whole BILL WRAY: Oh sure, we had the animation business—the big city of Hue. It rained for months on end in Vietnam; the atmos - comic book companies were in New York, but we had cartoons, phere was literally like a river. One day it somehow rained tad - Western Publishing, Disney, and underground comics up North. poles. I would see little boys my age leading huge oxen calmly Kirby moving out to Sherman Oaks was the real beginning of a down the street. I attacked a pack of dogs that were zeroing in West Coast access to New York. When Roy Thomas came out, on my little sister. Hong Kong, that was no big deal, but I had to we had a direct pipeline. get rabies shots in the stomach, that was no fun. But I did get a pile of comics after each shot. DRAW!: Didn’t you live overseas for a while? Vietnam? DRAW!: Wow. Were you getting into comics because of your BILL WRAY: I was an Army brat so we traveled extensively till being away from the American culture? Do you remember being attracted to certain artists or types of art? Did you see any for - eign comics at all? BILL WRAY: I liked the same stuff as when I was in the USA: Barks ducks, war comics, Superman, Harvey Comics.

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