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DAVE SIM:
Gerhard "Robert Crumb" background pages 380-383 of LATTER DAYS. He does a very good "heavy line work" Crumb style and a creditable teeny-tiny Mr. Natural and Flakey Foont.
Technically, the idea is a good one: you do a master background and then "pan" across and around it, so you get multiple panels from one drawing. The problem is: who does the "tech" side of cutting and pasting the drawing in digitally? Gerhard just used photocopies: the more the lines fattened up, the more Crumb-like they looked.
Tech question: how much control do you have to exert to still be considered "the artist" of the piece? That is, do you have to tell the "tech" person exactly how "quickly" or "slowly" to pan and if you just leave it up to them, are they then the "director"?
You'd really need to develop a whole different "studio" system than anything that has been done so far, but, technically, I still think there's a very good idea there.
The Master Background Artist can put more time in on a single piece and actually get three pages out of it -- so you can justify working three days on the drawing if you're doing "a page a day". Of course then you have to KEEP doing it, and factor in employing a full-time "tech" guy to implement it and develop an instructional language indicating right to left and left to right, quarter inch increments, hold on this section, zoom in [percentage required for each approach].
Of course, then the partnership broke up and the whole intellectual exercise became moot.
I used it on JUDENHASS but that bombed dramatically and came out while the level of Dave Sim Hate in comics had yet to peak so no one looked at the technical side of it.
Maybe someday someone will!