The Definitive Sgt. Kirk Reprint Edition Vol. 1 - Coda

This is lots of fun. It's a shame that none of this will ever exist.
By the way, this cover is more in proportion with Misterix's dimentions than the previous one which was (before I changed a couple of details) the cover of Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal # 49 (August 6, 1958). The above image was taken from Misterix # 349 (June 3, 1955).

The Definitive Sgt. Kirk Reprint Edition Vol. 1

Today I imagined the design of my Sgt. Kirk reprint edition. It will be hardcover, it will have a cloth spine, and the reprint paper will be slightly beige. It will have the approximate Misterix dimensions: 9 x 6 inches.

Calling Diego Cordoba

Hi Diego!

After your comment I downloaded Photoshop so, my total amount of Photoshop working hours is approximately 5 minutes. Even so, what do you think? I just added saturation. I'm not a big fan of saturated colors if saturation hides the drawings, but it doesn't seem to me that it happens here.

The 100th

Below is the 100th "Sgt. Kirk" page that I restored. I'm almost finishing the "Cerco de muerte" [the siege of death] story arc.

As you can easily understand, it's not easy to go from this:

 Héctor Germán Oesterheld (w), Hugo Pratt (a), Stefan Strocen (c), "Sgt. Kirk: Cerco de muerte", Misterix # 316, October 8, 1954.

...to this:

Viola

Viola Davis has nothing to do with comics, but since I started writing about the art form, more than 25 years ago, that this, exactly this, is what I thought comics were capable of and weren't doing being too occupied (the industry is what they call it) churning out ridiculous stories.

Jiro Taniguchi

Jiro Taniguchi died yesterday. The Crib is becoming poorer and poorer...

More Sgt. Kirk

I didn't post anything this last month because I continue to restore Oesterheld's and Pratt's "Sgt. Kirk".

Here are some more pages published in Misterix # 298 (June 4, 1954) and # 299 (June 11, 1954), the last page, which was never published in Europe.