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My 1987 DIRTY PAIR pitch portfolio, pt.2: Illustrations ahoy!

Added 2020-12-24 14:00:04 +0000 UTC

Behold, as promised a few weeks back, more of my artwork for the 1987 Dirty Pair proposal that my late friend Toren Smith and I pitched to Studio Nue, the company owned by DP creator and award-winning SF author Haruka Takachiho, in the hopes of doing an original American comics miniseries based on the characters.

This time around, here are two of the three illustrations I tacked onto the pitch; didn't have enough time to scan the third, alas, but you'll see it at some point.

Note that, at this time, the DP proposal was simultaneously being pitched to animation studio Sunrise, as this iteration of the Lovely Angels was (mostly) based on the 1986 TV anime series. As I'll later address, the additional costs of doing an adaptation of the anime would've been prohibitive, so I wound up having to work up my own version of Kei and Y**i, which really turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

I'd love to get into more detail about how the pitch came about, but I just don't have the time right now. Writing lengthy commentaries has proven to be a shockingly time-consuming aspect of Patreon posting, and one that I can't indulge as I need every g-d minute of worktime available to get Empowered vol. 12 underway. (Jeez, this post just took me 40 g-d minutes outta my all-important morning shift. Ouch!)

NEXT THURSDAY: We commence serialization of my DP comic from the 'folio, featuring a very familiar character design for a secondary character!

TOMORROW ON THIS HERE PATREON: A very special Xmas illo fresh off the drawing table, based on an amusing suggestion by one of the $20-tier Patrons. (Hint: Krampus ahoy!)