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Alum publishes book
Chambers' unique Mannequins comic strip a hit
Jessica Danielewicz
Issue date: 10/23/01 Section: News
“There’s this boulder the size of a beach ball that’s totally hidden,” he said.
However, the picture did not go into the book, because it was too weathered and just showed up as a picture of a rock.
He said he had other situations with people telling him that he could not take pictures of things.
“When I told them what I was using the pictures for, they just laughed and said ‘go ahead,’” he said.
He said that the big lens on his camera made people nervous.
The book does not flow as a story, but the characters are the same throughout. The mannequins Web site: www.manniquins comicstrip.co.uk, includes information about the comic strip including character biographies.
Content for the comic strips is taken from Chambers’ life experiences as well as keeping his eyes and ears open.
Chambers describes the content of the book as “small town rural humor.”
He plans to publish further volumes and currently has enough photographs for 2/3 of the next volume.
Chambers worked as an artist for a General Motors automotive dealership chain in Decatur and in the advertising department of Supervalu grocery store in Urbana before he became a broadcast animator at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
His wife Laura works with the characters’ hair and proofs the comic strip. They have been married three and a half years and live in Champaign.
However, the picture did not go into the book, because it was too weathered and just showed up as a picture of a rock.
He said he had other situations with people telling him that he could not take pictures of things.
“When I told them what I was using the pictures for, they just laughed and said ‘go ahead,’” he said.
He said that the big lens on his camera made people nervous.
The book does not flow as a story, but the characters are the same throughout. The mannequins Web site: www.manniquins comicstrip.co.uk, includes information about the comic strip including character biographies.
Content for the comic strips is taken from Chambers’ life experiences as well as keeping his eyes and ears open.
Chambers describes the content of the book as “small town rural humor.”
He plans to publish further volumes and currently has enough photographs for 2/3 of the next volume.
Chambers worked as an artist for a General Motors automotive dealership chain in Decatur and in the advertising department of Supervalu grocery store in Urbana before he became a broadcast animator at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
His wife Laura works with the characters’ hair and proofs the comic strip. They have been married three and a half years and live in Champaign.
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