ALIEN age 11 - Comic/Graphic Novel and Blog

What the..?

1979 gave the world two graphic novel adaptations of the smash hit: ALIEN. One was excellent!

This - is the other one.

The Author & Illustrator

An 11 year old boy in a small village in Ireland commenced work around late 1979. That's 32 years ago.

So, this movie adaptation was actually made, by a child, around the time that ALIEN actually hit theatres worldwide. But! - it was long before the young artist had actually seen the film itself. That wouldn't happen for 3 or 4 more years.

Visual & narrative References

It was done with nothing but an Alan Dean Foster novelisation with its few colour glossy photos as a visual reference, and a satire by Cracked Magazine that came out much later. He'd also had a few minutes to glance at his uncle's HR Giger Movie Design book.

So, done anything else?

Yes, it's brought to you by the maker of the popular Star Wars age 9 webcomic. Much of the artwork here is better - so not as silly! Think of them as mid-Life Crises I & II.

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Ripley face to face with Giger's Xenomorph! - alien comic page

It gets worse [67]

Here, after 2 months of waiting, is the shocker. What - end the story with a giant rubber lizard?

i couldn't resist one final shocking metamorphosis! I'm sorry that you all had to wait for so long so to see this. Serious webcomickers must keep to a regular publication schedule or they lose their audience.

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