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Al Has It Covered<\/strong><\/p>\n And so to the front cover of Zeus Plug one. Here’s Al:<\/p>\n It seemed Peter had been suggesting the idea of a zine composed of a single sheet of paper, folded in on itself with complexity rivalling a mobius cube, for quite some time.\u00a0 Flirting with the dark side of origami was all well and good but the resulting inter-dimensional planes would eventually require actual content to be printed on them. <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Typically, Peter was soon walking-the-walk and before I knew it I’d been catapulted from zine artist retirement to making my first attempt at David Tennant. <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Being forced to use an absolute minimum of line and tone which this approach demanded gave a result which I’m still happy with today, although I always made sure I supplied a mock-up suggesting how my illustration be used on the cover from this point on.\u00a0 It was a good lesson learned – never expect someone else to compose a page using your illustration the way you imagine, unless you tell them.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Al Has It Covered And so to the front cover of Zeus Plug one. Here’s Al: It seemed Peter had been suggesting the idea of a zine composed of a single sheet of paper, folded in on itself with complexity … Continue reading ![\"iss1a\"](\"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/iss1a-150x150.jpg\" "\\"iss1a\\"")
Armed with Radio Times reference and a doodle boasting more character than my finished illustration would, I was sent off to suck the ink clots out of my drawing pens and put a quiff on top of Tennant’s Casanova face. As well as a peerless artist and cartoonist, Peter is an imaginative Art Director, and suggested the stained glass window approach.\u00a0 I forget why, but like Jack Sparrow’s walk or ‘V’s Betty Boop wig, this piece of inspired randomness somehow worked – particularly with the colour version which he published on-line.\u00a0 Intoxicated with being involved in something new and potentially exciting, I was happy to tackle Tennant’s likeness (although these new-fangled young Doctors lack the inspiring facial crags and crevasses of their predecessors), and depict what is still my favourite Christmas special.\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"zp1coverblog\"](\"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/zp1coverblog.jpg\" "\\"zp1coverblog\\"")
Update: Here’s the final cover, scanned as Jono requested. I didn’t want to include this in case the other details detracted from the topic at hand. But it’s probably the best place for it at the moment!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"iss1cover\"](\"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/iss1cover.jpg\" "\\"iss1cover\\"")
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