Here’s one of my ‘Perelman’ comic strips. More to come.
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Sep.24, 2018, under Cartooning
I’ll post one every week or so.
I’ve been meaning to post some of my ‘Perelman’ comic strips I did many years ago. This first one was prior to the format I put together for future panels. Though this, too, was based in the actual location, the original one, of the Downtown Orlando Farmer’s Market. the market was Saturdays under the Interstate 400 overpass near Church Street. Each person drawn were real people and booth was the actual setup. In the second panel i wanted to include a mother and children shopping. So, that’s my sister-in-law, at the time, Nancy and her children, John and Porter. Charles Bailey, I don’t know if you all knew about this. 🙂 I’ll be posting ones with Amber, Taylor and Jacob, too.
The comic strip ‘Perelman’ was published by the Orlando Sentinel in it’s ‘Downtown Orlando Monthly’ magazine for four years in the 1990s. Many thanks to Gina Bowden-Pierce and T. Allan Smith editing my frantic way of producing these.
I like a challenge. So I decided to morph the strip from a traditionally drawn strip to something that really didn’t exist before. My concept was that the strip existed in the real world using photographs for backgrounds and other photos of physical objects that the characters would hold. I’ve been told I was the first to attempt sequential storytelling this way. I admit, it was a hell of a lot of work.
The characters were all illustrated. This meant that however the character was drawn, if it moved holding an object, the object would need photos of that item at angles to fit the movement. It was a bit difficult. At the time the strip was being produced in the mid-90s, digital cameras were not very available. So it was lots and lots and lots of photos. Choosing the best for the background and the objects. It was extremely time consuming.
The strip ended when the Orlando Sentinel ended the entire very successful publication due to technical issues with the City of Orlando. Both wanted the strip to continue in other ways but I felt that impractical.
By the way, the characters reflected my great admiration of the humor writers of the early part of the 20th century. Perelman was named after writer S.J. Perelman. There are also characters named after Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman and others of the famed literary gathering of wits known as the Algonquin Round Table.
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