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Lee Sullivan Art
Thunderbirds Comic Book Art
Working on 'Thunderbirds' for Redan was great fun as I was an avid viewer of the programme on its first release and reading TV21 very probably sowed the seeds of my later career. I assumed it would run for 6 months - it ran for about five years: I provided all but one of the originated strips for the title. As well as pencilling and inking, I eventually had the opportunity to provide full-colour computer colouring - the double-page spreads you see here are examples.
Now in reprint - probably forever as the popularity of Thunderbirds looks to go on until doomsday - sharp-eyed readers will notice that I was already recycling my own material somewhat beforehand :)
Here are some links to a very wonderful site which looks extensively at the 'Thunderbirds' comic and also has an interview I gave detailing my time on working on it:
'THUNDERBIRDS' magazine overview
In-jokes are a staple of comic book art.
Or at least they are for me. Various issues of 'Thunderbirds' Magazine feature
Roxy Music, my favourite band. The top two images
feature some of their appearances in various issues.
Aren't those
drumsticks in that oil-rigger's hand? Do the letters TGPT stand for The Great
Paul Thompson? Will mighty guitarist Phil Manzanera pull off a mask, lose a foot
in height and stand revealed as a grumbling, strategically-oblique bald man?
Could enigmatic saxman Andy Mackay ever have taken a role in the oil industry?
Would Bryan Ferry have appreciated International Rescue's intervention in his
recent near-death flight and was he ever really Lady P's boss?
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