It’s Fanby Fridays again and I wanted to take this moment to bring to your attention one of my personal favorites. It’s called: Red’s Planet and it is drawn by the extremely talented Eddie Pittman. This comic started up in 2010 and is brand-spanking new, so now is the perfect time to get on board and start reading!
If this comic looks to beautiful to be true, it might have something to do with the fact that Eddie is a former Disney artist who has worked on films like Mulan, Emperor’s New Groove (a personal favorite) and Lilo and Stitch. He has the pedigree, and it is certainly on display here. The line work is beautiful and the character construction is amazing. I am always extremely impressed when an artist can construct a character in many different poses and angles and it still looks correctly proportioned. That is perhaps the hardest trick for a cartoonist to do, and Eddie pulls it off so effortlessly here. His characters are also extremely expressive which is such an important yet so often overlooked aspect to cartooning. You just don’t see a lot of it in webcomics. I also really love the way he uses color and light to help set the mood. Again, a very important, yet rarely seen aspect of fine cartooning. I’ve learned a lot from the few pages that have made their way to the web so far. (EDIT: The Artist just posted an article on how he designs his characters. Very informative!)
The plot of this comic is wonderful as well. It’s about a little girl named “Red” who runs away from her foster home and is mistakenly abducted by aliens and then marooned on a deserted planet. Although we have yet to see much of this, (Eddie just finished up the prologue) I am looking forward to seeing where this comic goes.
It is rare that I catch a webcomic of this quality right at the beginning of it’s run, so I am very excited to get a chance to share this with you before it breaks out and becomes HUGE! So what are you waiting for? Go check out Red’s Planet today!
