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Tried to animate something after not trying for about 2 years.
-Edwin and Otto in no-man's land.
#ottoway#ww1 fiction#animation#loop#german#british#my art#original characters#no-man's land#the great war#trench coats#otto odinkirk#edwin vipond
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OTTOWAY
Otto Odinkirk, a German Private, and Edwin Vipond, a British Sergeant, are stranded in no-man's-land, they need a work together in order to survive the hellscape of the Western Front.
Written and Illustrated by @vikkicomics
Vol 1, first addition, available HERE.
#ww1 fiction#first world war#ottoway#otto odinkirk#edwin vipond#british#german#anti-war#art#comics#graphic novels#anti war#historical#drama#survival horror
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Ottoway Vol I
The year is 1916. German private Odinkirk is accumulating shell shock, and British sergeant Vipond is struggling with the death of his younger brother. Their fates entwine by way of a mysterious amulet, leading up to a situation where the two enemies must depend on each other for survival.
Story
The story is well-told, and never felt like it dragged along. There’s a minimum of ‘telling over showing’, everything is conveyed in dialogue, snappy banter, and action sequences, in stark contrast to the vast textwalls of most angphone comics.
Character interaction is heavily on point. This is a highlight of the story, the way men banter and bicker and throw things at each other. This builds a strong sense of character, shows us more of the world, and really helps make the reader care about the many characters in ways reminiscent of AQOTWF, or Tuntematon Sotilas.
Many aspects of the plot, including the uniforms, are meticulously researched in ways that make the occasional anomaly much easier to accept.
Art
The first thing that hits a reader of this story is how exceptionally pretty all the men are. Not in a Marvel, hyper-realistic way, but more stylized along the lines of Donna Barr mixed with Disney, covered with a pinch of 1980’s anime. And it’s gloriously effective, suiting the character focus. There are no talking heads here, each dialogue is accompanied by interesting actions, shifts in imagery, etc. Talk about shell-shock is accompanied by sharing the light of a cigarette, while going over the top results in helmets being patronisingly petted.
Every inch of the comic is covered with hatching lines to demonstrate shadow, which makes it clear just how much care and effort went into the comic. The only real negative I can say about the art is that the children sometimes look clunky, but in the author’s defence, children are very difficult to draw and stylize. Especially when they’re not part and parcel of the usual repertoire. They do not feature for long, leaving us to get back to lovingly coloured, atmospheric chases through the countryside, the warm glow of soldiers enjoying a break, and the maddening faces of dead and dying men.
There are some small amounts of gore in this comic. I generally don’t warn for this sort of thing unless it makes me uncomfortable or is fairly graphic, and this gore is. It also serves the setting of the comic very well, as men are dying left and right in ways that are seldom depicted in films, but often detailed in text. The war imagery itself takes a lot of inspiration from German expressionism and mid-century cinema, creating a bleakness that almost seeps off of the page with contorted faces and feasting ravens.
Final Notes:
The amount of homosocial undertones is also a selling point for this comic. The male-male interaction in this comic does get up, close, and personal in ways that are very conducive to shipping.
(Personally I support future Vilhelm/Otto so far.)
You can buy it here. The artist, Victoria Bentham, is on tumblr, and you can support her on Ko-fi.
#Comic#Review#WWI#indie comix#indie comics#Ottoway#Victoria Bentham#Tristian Reviews#Great Britain#Germany#History
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Wwi German soldier (Otto) holding a pine branch.
>Ottoway Yuletide-Christmas card print design.
Link to the postcard on RB.
Merry Christmas, Jolly Yuletide, Joyeux Noël!
#ottoway#ww1fiction#original comic#christmas cards#german soldier#wwi#otto odinkirk#winter#evergreen#pine#screenshot#trench coat#artists on tumblr
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This costume is from Oberstdorf in Bavarian Swabia. Otto Odinkirk is mixed Pomeranian and Prussian and from (the northern boarder of) Ostprignitz, so the context of him dressing in this could be that he is posing for one of Ludwig’s paintings, or visiting Swabia. I wanted to draw him in something cute and traditional, and I love wood anemones. He could wear Pomeranian, Brandenburg or Prussian dress while in his home county, Ostprignitz has historically been part of Pomerania and part of Brandenburg.
#Ottoway#original characters#original art#line art#colour#traditional dress#german#otto odinkirk#wood#anenomes#lederhosen
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This is about the 300th page of the entire series, but I finally go round to writing commentary on some of the most absurd anti-German propaganda of WW1.
There were monthly publications in British newspapers during WW1 claiming that the Germans had human fat farms and were cannibalizing our dead relatives.
When I was in high school, we were shown a propaganda poster about this, as an example of a lie, designed to make us want to kill other human beings, (Germans). But we were not informed that this lie was repeated monthly in the newspapers.
Special thanks to my colorist @polsterreich
For more information about the Ottoway Graphic novel series, visit my web page: https://ottoway.carrd.co/
#original comic#ottoway#ww1 fiction#artists on tumblr#commentary on wwi propaganda#cannibalism#Otto Odinkirk#Edwin Vipond#brittish#German#Tommy and Jerry
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Lines for Yule themed Ottoway art :3.
#yuletide#christmas#evergreen#pine#line art#ottoway#otto odinkirk#ww1fiction#first world war#german soldier#trench coat#winter
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Ah, tonight's page. I'm sleep deprived, I'm surprised i got all the figure lines done.
Scene from Ottoway vol 2, Edwin shares his bottle with Otto. What a nice Tommy, surely he's not got anything insidious planned for later on...
#Ottoway#ww1 fiction#original comic#line art#artist on tumblr#the great war#brittish#german#Otto Odinkirk#edwin vipond#drinking alcohol#sharing#uniforms#ottoway volume 2#post production
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Gave this one a go. Used my rubbish non-pressure sensitive pen but they are just sketches. can't say whether i will give them fine lines or colour yet.
#Otto Odinkirk#ottoway#sketches#character expressions#ww1 fiction#original comic#original characters
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Otto's last charge in novel script format vs graphic novel format. I think this might come in handy for people who want to compare visual story telling vs verbal.
#ottoway#ww1 fiction#original comic#first world war#wilhelm adelmann#otto odinkirk#vincent odinkrik#white stallion#albrecht the horse
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Otto and Peter in Saxon Folk Dress.
Happy Pancake Day and Happy Valentines Day.❤️
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Historical Illustrations I’d pick for my artist’s portfolio.
#historical illustrations#artist on tumblr#victorian period#edwardian period#the terror#world war one#HMS Terror#the piece i made for jamesfitzjame.com#ottoway#captain crozier#james fitzjames#harry goodsir#thomas jopson#edwin vipond#otto odinkirk
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More Edwin and Otto Sketches.
#world war one#Ottoway#sketches#edwin vipond#otto odinkirk#original characters#personal work#german#british
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This is clearly harassment.
#ottoway#ww1 fiction#Otto Odinkirk#edwin vipond#line art#original comic#graphic novel#wip#historical fiction#cross your heart
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“Smoke my cigarette and hush.”
Heinz and Otto sketch and text layers. Probably inspired by Lady Gaga’s Alejandero. The plot thickens, but why? Is it a soup metaphor?
#art progress#Ottoway#comic#sketch layers#wwi#Otto odinkirk#heinz dix#the names are indeed an otto dix reference#smoke my cigarette and hush
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