I’m not confident about a lot but I am confident that this is the best drawing of a knight in shining armor doing battle with an octopus that you are going to see today. I worked really hard on it.
This is the story that’s probably going to do the least for a reader who hasn’t actually read the book, and required the most careful note taking on my part, so I could really get a sense of each of the six “knights” and what they specifically had to be sorry about.
Also, tiny mermaid boobs, tee hee. Always gotta have at least one naked body part in each of these comic books to ensure that I can’t show them to my elementary students.
I made the lindworm intentionally simple after drawing the 52 thousand scales on the dragon. She’s a little derpy but I love her.
This story took the longest to write, and is 1 of only 2 that I actually remember writing. All the others were generated in an intense flow state, basically a trance of pulling archetypes from the collective unconscious. But I had to think more deliberately to write the poems.
Of all the amusing little details I managed to get right in this comic, this page probably contains 2 of my favorites. On the first pass, I drew the ghost in a classical ghost shroud style, which looked…really dumb. Making him a glowing, translucent guy worked out much more elegantly.
But probably my favorite image in this entire comic book is the top one, of the devil being so incredibly offended and the guy with his hobo outfit and “hey, what did I do?” expression. But devil practically clutching his pearls like, “Dude? Your own stepdaughter? Really? No. Gross,” will be cracking me up for the rest of my life.
For whatever reason, this was the easiest page to draw. It was the second one I completed, but the the first one that I was completely satisfied with. Their clothes are perfect, their expressions are perfect, the image in my mind completely matched the image on the page. You really believe these guys could be in love.
I haven’t said anything about the illuminated initial caps yet. I drew most of them before I drew the illustrations. Some of them I had a very clear vision and others I just sort of made it up as I went. I always knew that the first comic would start “Once upon a time,” and the initial cap would have a little farm scene with a barn inside.
This one also was very clear in my mind. I actually have that same garden swing, which The Man built for me in the backyard. I could not get it right. The arms and legs and bodies weren’t sitting properly in the swing no matter how many times I drew it. I made the made model with me for a reference pic. Then it was easier to adjust.
Spent a very long time drawing that dragon’s scales. The Fox assured me they are perfect but they don’t look perfect to me but anyway they are done and that’s pretty close to perfect from where I sit.
That small king is a real creep so I drew him creeping.
Women, don’t betray your own principles for some guy.
This egg is awesome. What do you think could possibly hatch from such an artifact? I guess you’ll have to check back tomorrow.
I spent a very long time trying to think of what would be written on the sorceress’s book in the bottom right of the page but then I decided it was so arcane that mere mortals could not even perceive it.
This drawing took forever; this is what I was talking about yesterday when I said I expected to draw more specific stuff from the book. I would still be drawing it if I had gone with that idea and only illustrated this page with indigenous Michigan plants mentioned in the book.
The Man told me that’s NOT how you carry a deer, but I mean, how many deer has he carried in his life? Maybe he’s just not as strong as he thinks he is.
This whole image cracks me up.
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