Personal Fan made Casino Royale Comic

DutchfingerDutchfinger Holland With LovePosts: 1,240MI6 Agent
edited December 2014 in General James Bond Chat
(I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to post something like this, if not, I hope this can be put in the appropriate one.)

A couple of weeks ago I decided to make my own fan based comic of the very first James Bond novel Casino Royale. It was a completely random idea, that slowly became reality. I decided to make some designs of what the characters would look like, and I drew the first nine pages over a couple of weeks. I decided not to base my characters on their looks in the movies, but use my own inmagination. Bond for instance is actually based on my own appearance. Hey, it's my fantasy right? I also tried to avoid to get inspired by the excisting comic of the novell.

Now, these were all hand drawn and colored using special markers. I printed the comic's and texts out first, and then the rest is done by hand. Originally these are all done in Dutch, However, for the porpuse of this forum I decided to translate them all to English using my computer. Unfortunatly, my scanner didn't make these look to good. So I took pictures of the drawings and translated the textboxes to English. The rest is untouched as is.

If you're curious, here's a picture of me, I tried to loosely base my Bond on myself:

smoothie.jpg


I am still yet to design the front page. So I'll just dive right into the first page here:

Page 1:
1_EN.jpg

Page 2:
2_EN.jpg

Page 3:
(Yes, I know I accidentally put the holster on the wrong side.. :( )
3_EN.jpg

Page 4:
4_EN.jpg

Page 5:
5_EN.jpg

Page 6:
6_EN.jpg

Page 7:
7_EN.jpg

Page 8:
8_EN.jpg

Page 9:
(Props if you can guess on which actor I tried to base Mathis on)
9_EN.jpg


Sorry for the bad quality. It's a shame I couldn't properly scan these and show you quite how they look in real life. I did my best translating these just now. There might be some grammar mistakes I didn't notice yet. I could always re-edit those. If you guys like these I could always edit this OP with more pages :)

Enjoy!
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Very creative. -{
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • welshboy78welshboy78 Posts: 10,320MI6 Agent
    (Props if you can guess on which actor I tried to base Mathis on)

    LEON?
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    {[] Great work, very creative ! -{
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  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    That's brilliant
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,865Chief of Staff
    Please do more!

    PS Jean Reno?
  • DutchfingerDutchfinger Holland With LovePosts: 1,240MI6 Agent
    Thanks everyone. :)

    Yes Barbel (and welshboy78) Jean Reno is correct. I always thought he would have made a great Mathis!
    It takes some time to do more, especially since the private life is pretty busy at the moment. But I will defenitely continue doing this!
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  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    These are terrific! :007)
    And you did a very subtle job with the drawing of the brothel, which can't have been easy :)) -{
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  • DutchfingerDutchfinger Holland With LovePosts: 1,240MI6 Agent
    These are terrific! :007)
    And you did a very subtle job with the drawing of the brothel, which can't have been easy :)) -{

    Thanks!
    Haha you're right! - I didn't want it to be to much but at the same time I did want the comic to be kind of mature. Especially because my drawing style in it's own way is quite cartoony. (Big eyes, heads way to big, bright colors etc) So I tried to mature it up a bit by having people smoking, showing some subtle stuff like that etc. etc)
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  • StrangewaysStrangeways London, UKPosts: 1,469MI6 Agent
    That's fantastic
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    Have you considered making any more?
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Combining your art work with some fan fiction, might look
    Fantastic ;) but probably far too much work ! ....... Still it's
    As idea. :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • readpaulbreadpaulb Cleveland, OhioPosts: 86MI6 Agent
    This is truly fantastic work! I'm always jealous of those with artistic talent. Unfortunately I have none.
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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    (I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to post something like this, if not, I hope this can be put in the appropriate one.)

    A couple of weeks ago I decided to make my own fan based comic of the very first James Bond novel Casino Royale. It was a completely random idea, that slowly became reality. I decided to make some designs of what the characters would look like, and I drew the first nine pages over a couple of weeks. I decided not to base my characters on their looks in the movies, but use my own inmagination. Bond for instance is actually based on my own appearance. Hey, it's my fantasy right? I also tried to avoid to get inspired by the excisting comic of the novell.

    Now, these were all hand drawn and colored using special markers. I printed the comic's and texts out first, and then the rest is done by hand. Originally these are all done in Dutch, However, for the porpuse of this forum I decided to translate them all to English using my computer. Unfortunatly, my scanner didn't make these look to good. So I took pictures of the drawings and translated the textboxes to English. The rest is untouched as is.

    If you're curious, here's a picture of me, I tried to loosely base my Bond on myself:

    smoothie.jpg


    I am still yet to design the front page. So I'll just dive right into the first page here:

    Page 1:
    1_EN.jpg

    Page 2:
    2_EN.jpg

    Page 3:
    (Yes, I know I accidentally put the holster on the wrong side.. :( )
    3_EN.jpg

    Page 4:
    4_EN.jpg

    Page 5:
    5_EN.jpg

    Page 6:
    6_EN.jpg

    Page 7:
    7_EN.jpg

    Page 8:
    8_EN.jpg

    Page 9:
    (Props if you can guess on which actor I tried to base Mathis on)
    9_EN.jpg


    Sorry for the bad quality. It's a shame I couldn't properly scan these and show you quite how they look in real life. I did my best translating these just now. There might be some grammar mistakes I didn't notice yet. I could always re-edit those. If you guys like these I could always edit this OP with more pages :)

    Enjoy!

    Nice work! -{
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • PeppermillPeppermill DelftPosts: 2,860MI6 Agent
    Very cool indeed!
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  • DutchfingerDutchfinger Holland With LovePosts: 1,240MI6 Agent
    Thanks for all the compliments people! I really appreciate it! :)
    Have you considered making any more?

    Besides Casino Royale you mean? Well, it started out as an absolute random idea, and just simply started on Casino. But, now that I've shared it here and made it a bit more serious, I would defenitely like to make a comic on some of the others as well. There's a lot of idea's in my head on what the characters of the other novels would look like. It's just a hobby of course, but who knows, I might get around to doing more eventually! :)
    Combining your art work with some fan fiction, might look
    Fantastic ;) but probably far too much work ! ....... Still it's
    As idea. :))

    And a great one at that! I would defenitely consider that one as well. Or maybe a combination of both. (Kind of what they did with the movies for instance)


    As soon as I made some more pages I will update it here. Thanks for the intrest and kind words once again guys!
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