Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption

Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption

2nd year Ditko inspired work

Frank Miller's other work

Frank Miller has wrote and drawn a lot of material. Sin city had a definite impact on the way my work looks. Ditkos comics i always felt looked better in black and white. So when i seen the way sin city is presented and how its look, helps heighten the intensity of the story, i wanted to explore what i could achieve with black and white imagery. It just is something i like, i think sometimes the colour takes away instead of adding to the work. His works Ronin, daredevil and 300 are also really good works.

Frank Miller's Batman

Frank Miller's version of Batman is my favorite version of the character. He makes him a lot darker. His book The Dark Knight returns is one of my favourite graphic novels, Batman comes out of retirement as a old man to rid the streets of a gang called the mutants.

Alan Moore

Alan Moore in my opinion is the greatest writer in the graphic novel industry. After seeing the work of Ditko i started looking into comics and graphic novels. Graphic novels i felt were much better. They are usually a lot more dark, and have more going on in terms of sub-plots and hidden meaning than a average comic dose. Alan Moore has wrote a lot of brilliant stories including V for Vendetta, From Hell, The league of extraordinary Gentlemen, Swamp thing and Watchmen. Watchmen is considered by many as the greatest graphic novel ever wrote. In it he explored the idea of what would happen if superheros were real, but there is a lot more to it than that, with the story questioning a lot of world issues. The character Rorschach is Moore's idea of what Batman would be like if he was real, and Moore believes he would be a absolute sociopath who people wouldn't like and would be scary. It makes sense when you think about it, a masked vigilante beating people to a pulp at night would be.

Steve Ditko

Ditko was the first comic artist i looked at. I like his work because he seems to be able to put a lot of emotion into his characters with using very simple technique. Also his work is not a riddle like i feel alot of art is, its to the point so instead of thinking what the artist is trying to tell you, you think about the information he has given you and you think about that. Ditko was a avid fan of Objectivist philosophy, and would try and get the viewer to think and dwell on that. He ended up losing his job on the spider man comics because of this.