Over at Top Shelf 2.0 you can now find “A Real Gentle Knife,” a comic based on the song “Rippin Kittin” by Golden Boy and Miss Kittin, written by me, and drawn by my old friend and up-and-coming comics blogger/educator Josiah Leighton. I hope you enjoy it.
Great work from both of you. I’ve had that song stuck on my MP3 player for six months now – the images you guys use for each of the lyrical beats in the song are very evocative and sometimes very disturbing. One question – did you highlight what you wanted each panel to be a “shot” of in your script? If so, how did you settle on those particular images for those parts of the song? Not trying to strip away the magic/mystery of the piece, just curious.
All those shots were definitely in the script, yeah, but if I recall correctly, the images were originally tagged to specific lines of the song more or less randomly. Josiah tweaked the order a little so that certain things lined up–the kitchen knives together with the line about the knife, for example.
i thought this was going to be misfits related
i thought this was going to be misfits related
Yeah, that’s where she got it from, obvs.