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Tag Archives: Morgo the Mighty
Morgo, Step Three
First stage of Photoshopping.
Morgo, Step Two
Final pencils with accent inks.
Morgo, Step One
McRory might be the narrator and protagonist but it’s Morgo here whose name is the serial’s title.
In my early research about the novel, before I actually read it, it sounded like Morgo was a Mowgli/Tarzan sort: a boy raised by beasts who becomes king of said beasts. Morgo’s actual origins are both more complicated and vaguer than that. Morgo was a young English boy prior to his life in the caves, so he knew “civilization” at one time. Once he came to caves he was adopted by the protomen and batmen in one of the lower caverns. Somehow he rose to become their king and leader. How that happened is left vague.
McRory, Step Five
McRory, final colors.
McRory, Step Four
McRory does like his smokes.
McRory, Step Three
Morgo the Mighty takes place in series of giant caverns located beneath the Himalayas. Most of the caverns have a “daylight” cycle, a period when they are flooded with light. In the novel, the method of how the light gets from one cavern to another is left … vague. There’s an explanation for why there’s light in the caves but it doesn’t work if you think about it for more than a minute or two.
So in this illustration, I’ve depicted an organic method of lighting the caves. I plan to go into it in greater detail in later illustrations.
McRory, Step Two
When McRory salvages supplies from his crashed plane he makes sure to grab a carton cigarettes. McRory is a twentieth century man.
McRory, Step One
The narrator and protagonist of Morgo the Mighty is James McRory. McRory is a pilot ( and Irishman) flying in India who takes on the wrong passenger and ends up adventuring in a massive cave system beneath the Himalayas. Morgo gives McRory the nickname “Derro” because of his red hair. “Derro” means “red” in the language of the caves.
Nurri Kala, Step Five
Portrait colorized.
