Celebrating Bishop anew 2

This drawing highlights one of Bishop's greatest talents: his ability to tell a story in a single picture. In one image, he is able to capture a chain of events you can immediately see happening in your mind's eye!
You know that as that rope is pulled up, her legs will go back, and she will probably topple over on her stomach, one step closer to being hogtied. It is almost like a still picture from a movie, a part of a larger scene.

A long time ago, in one of my Workfloor pages, I complained that, as an artist, I had to deal with the fact that bondage opposes action (apart from the struggle to get free, of course). That limits you if you want to make a dynamic comic strip, for instance. And the way Bishop solves that problem here is just magnificent.
The icing on the cake is the contrast in the faces. The calm confidence on his face, and her incredulity, as she can barely keep up with what is happening.
Wonderful stuff.

Coco