MY Newest, Most Favorite NEW School, Retro Cartoon- 'Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit - by: Wesle
- makindents
- Sep 4, 2015
- 1 min read
Once upon a time in 1991, The Line’s Wesley Louis sat down with some colouring pencils, and started drawing a comic book about an armored rabbit with superpowers and a sword. Little did he know he had taken his first step on a journey that he wouldn’t see completed for another 24 years.
In 2013 Wes found the comic stuffed into the back of an old folder. 10 pages that, though unfinished, and slightly ravaged by time, perfectly captured all the joys and obsessions of a 13 year old child of the 90’s. Desert chrome, speedlines, ninjas, saturday morning cartoons, it was all there. The blueprint for his career, scrawled onto yellowing paper with a startling degree of skill.
He bought it into work and there was something about it that we couldn’t put down. Yes it was nostalgic, but more than that, it was a fully realised world, of heroes villains, and monkey sidekicks with guns. Wes started to imagine what it’d be like if it were a real cartoon from the 90’s and before he knew it he had storyboarded the intro sequence. Rina May and Box of Toys Audio put together a rock solid theme song, and pretty soon everyone was hooked.
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