Stickleback: England's Glory Part 8 & 9 References

Part 8

Page 5: The Other Dimension

It was our old friend H.P. Lovecraft who first came up with the notion of combining the ideas of alternate dimensions (from quantum physics) and underworlds/domains of evil (from folklore & mythology).

The appearance of our underworld owes a lot to the paradigms established by Swiss artist Hans Rudi (H.R.) Giger, whose "biomechanical" airbrush paintings led him to becoming a leading concept artist for Hollywood films, most notably with his seminal design for the creature in Ridley Scott's Alien (1979).



Part 9

There are no new references in part 9.

Back To Life

Cover for 2000AD Prog 1575; thanks to design droids PYE-01 and/or R1F4 for all the careful cutting-out of tentacles to overlap the banner on the finished product.
Stickleback © 2008 Rebellion AS/2000AD.
Stickleback created by Ian Edginton & Me.

Recent sad events have rather got in the way of both blogging and working the past couple of weeks; however, it's time to start moving forward. At the moment I'm running a few days late on my new post-Stickleback project (of which more anon). This will hold up the bloggery-pokery a little, but I'm still going to post the relatively small number of references for the remaining episodes of Stickleback: England's Glory.

Meanwhile, I'd like to celebrate, belatedly, my fourth cover for 2000AD (above). This will be available for sale as an artwork print at Bristol.

Left: Sketchbook rough for the cover
Right: Rough pencils for the same.

Stickleback © 2008 Rebellion AS/2000AD.
Stickleback created by Ian Edginton & Me.