High Life - Section G
Sep 21, 2021
Captain Clay is a mixture of Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum (which shows my age if nothing else). There's a touch of Bogart as Charlie Allnut in African Queen (mainly the hat), but overall Clay is probably most like Mitchum who though famous for macho roles, was a reasonably good amateur poet in his spare time and effectively (though to some not entirely convincingly) portrayed a bookish teacher in David Lean's Ryan's Daughter. Clay is less inclined to violence and treating women badly, than the kinds of characters we associate with Messrs Bogart and Mitchum, but for all that he is a kind of action hero who also happens to like books. So maybe there's a touch of the Aramis of the Three Musketeers about him too. I agonised over his costume during the preliminaries of creating the strip and to be honest, I'm still not all that happy with it. Blade Runner 2049 came out after I had finished this strip so the resemblance between Ryan Gosling's coat and Clay's is entirely coincidental, I was just trying to riff on the traditional navy peacoat to give him a down-at-heel, working-class appearance. Besides the comms projector at the centre of his coat, I think he looks more like a driving instructor who has a small motorboat which he drives on Sundays. Maybe, if I ever get round to another propper Clay story, I'll make some improvements. In the meantime, enjoy Clay in all his shabby, bookish, driving-instructor glory. Next episode he finally begins to shine!
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