She ain't Superman

Watercolor · 2024-02

She ain't Superman, 2024 — watercolor cartoon by Ray Patrick

Cartoons, Pussy Wrangler, Mersh, Watercolor, Story, Comics

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Subject

A new girl is giving one of the regulars a lap dance. He offers to buy off the menu, she slaps the shit out of him, he slaps her back, and she explodes with rage. The strip then cuts to a figure running flat out, a man knocked cold, and the correction — she did not knock him out, she stepped on the tracks and found out she is not Superman.

Composition

Seven panels. The top row stays inside the club in ordinary scale; the bottom row abandons it for two large near-abstract panels — a figure running through streaked light and a head in silhouette — before returning to two small panels to deliver the line.

Palette

Violet and magenta in the club, then a sudden shift to cadmium orange, gold and black for the running panels, which are the hottest thing in the run.

Handling

The club panels are painted inside the line; the two big panels are brushed in long directional streaks with the figure left as a dark reserve, so the technique changes with the register.

Medium and support

Watercolour and ink on paper.

Signature

Signed rayrayisHAPPY in small script at the lower right.

From the artist:

Superwoman.