Page Six Complete!

So page six is done.

 

This page continues the scene in Psychoboy's room from last page, this time with things I made up exaggerating the media's infatuation with the then-recent Colmbine shootings. While there's been lots of references to real life shows and brands in the pages so far, there is something really fun about just making up stuff in-story. What would the Simpsons be without Kwik-E-Mart or Kevin Smith's films be without Mooby's?

 

And in that tradition we have...Stars of the Media! It's the action figure brand for the disgraced and demented of society that dominate the news cycle. Like most action figures of the time, they only have five points of articulation (their head turns and their legs and arms can move up and down). Monica and Bill have cloth clothing on so you can't see their arm and leg joints like on OJ (cause if Stained Dress Monica Lewinsky doesn't come with a stained dress, what's the point?). 

 

Unlike most things I've colored for the series so far, I have printed color material to sample from for the action figures. Namely, I made packaging for the fictional Monica and OJ figures, which I'll be posting pics and scans of for the next three days. And then on Wednesday I'll be doing a blog asking what, if anything, on that page that was fictional in 1999 actually exists today?

 

And then after that, page seven...and the mall!