
The artwork for this issue is by Tom Neely. Unlike last issue's Ken Wheaton, Neely does not draw in Bruce Ozella's style. Instead Neely draws in a style reminiscent of Barbecue For Two, the pilot cartoon for the 1960 series of TV cartoons. Neely's art is a little more polished than Ozella's, but there are panels where his art gets sloppy, as if he was getting fatigued at the end of a long day of drawing. I like that Neely, who also colored the issue, gets Popeye's hair red (a detail mostly forgotten after decades of the bald animated Popeye), but he has one major mistake: he gave Popeye teeth. In the Segar strips, and the pre-1940 Fleischer cartoons, Popeye has no teeth, only gums.
Overall, issue 3 is the best of the series so far, an A-.
No comments:
Post a Comment