On this page we are
introduced to another main incidental character, Janos Burovnik, exiled leader
of the “Free Lutzany” movement. When I was casting, I toyed with the idea of
using Conrad Veidt or Leo G. Carroll, then decided to base him off of Ingrid
Bergman, the same model I used for his daughter, Lisle. At least that way
there’d be a family resemblance.
I don’t have much to say
about this page; it’s important because it introduces two important characters
in this storyline, but there’s nothing particularly interesting about them
otherwise.
I think it was around this time that I got a call from my editor,
Bob Schreck, relaying complaints from the Dark Horse production department that
my original pages were a mess: I wasn’t erasing enough and my residual pencils
were fucking with their attempts to scan the pages. This annoyed me at the
time, but I found out exactly what they meant when I tried to scan my own
artwork a few years later (I brought my first computer in 2000).
You can see
for yourself the problem this caused in reproducing my line work in panels 1
and 2. I’m curious, though, why they didn’t just go in and hit it with the
eraser themselves.
This is page 5 for "The Mark" issue 2,
volume 2, otherwise known as "The Mark In America", published by Dark
Horse Comics in January 1994. Written by Mike Barr, drawn by Brad Rader.
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