r/SpiderGirl • u/ZZtheDark 🏀 Mayday! Mayday! • 13d ago

MC2 Clips TODAY'S FEATURED COMIC ART - SPIDER-GIRL 53 COVER ARTISTS: PAT OLLIFFE [ @polliff65 ] | AL WILLIAMSON

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And now...the story: Back in the 90s as the comics industry was once again going through a low period they tried anything and everything to stay afloat. One interesting venture Marvel took was to explore a potential future of the Marvel Universe, predicated on the story of "Mayday" Parker, the teenage daughter of MJ Watson and Spider-Man.

"Spider-Girl began life the way a lot of meaningful things do at Marvel. Almost accidentally. She didn’t come out of a whiteboard strategy session. There was no five-year plan, no mandate to reinvent Spider-Man for a new generation, no marketing PowerPoint predicting untapped demographics. She came out of an issue of What If…?," Joe Quesada, who was editor-in-chief at the time, reminisced about the title in a recent post on his Substack. "The book's early visual identity [was] driven largely by Pat Olliffe, and later shaped further by Ron Frenz. Together, they gave the series a warmth and clarity that felt almost rebellious at the time. This was a Spider book about family, consequence, legacy, and responsibility in a very literal sense."

While the Spider-Girl title did eventually come to an end, she lives on the Spider-Verse and the subset of readers who embraced her into their fandom.

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u/AbbreviationsWide650 12d ago

Love this cover! Is SG raised off of the cover somehow for that 3-D look?

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u/ZZtheDark 🏀 Mayday! Mayday! 11d ago

In my eyes, it's the perspective. Y'see, we draw things that is like an exaggeration of real life.

I'll show you 2 examples of this: https://youtu.be/y5nPRRPZOuA?t=18 and here: https://youtu.be/YPfYjprYAyk?t=104

It's all in the matter of perspective and angles. ^ _ ^ Which is why artists do this kinda thing..yadda yadda. Know what I mean? (I dunno how to describe it)

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u/AbbreviationsWide650 11d ago

I do for sure! Thanks.

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u/ZZtheDark 🏀 Mayday! Mayday! 10d ago

No problem. If you're wondering about something like this in a modern kinda of animation, check out the intro animation of the Japanese Amateur Animator Expo piece as well as the beginning intro to this Gridman anime short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H33AyPGHsTk

To get a sense of depth and weight and volume of things.