I had no idea about this when I first got the idea for Goldenbird (I have to thank Irish poet W.B. Yeats for that), but according to The Oneirocriticon of Daniel from the fourth century AD (a.k.a. The Dreambook of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So much to regret about this page (you should see the state of the original!), yet so much to celebrate. I’ve been drawing Goldenbird for ten years now. I have been thinking about this little metal bird for much longer.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
… or that’s what it feels like since my last update. This page turned out to be ridiculously detailed, as I feared! Mayann’s impatience is partly directed at the author and fully justified, of course. I have been unfaithful to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mayday, mayday. Writer over board. This was so difficult. It makes no sense out of context and I’m afraid it doesn’t make sense in context either. But I just read Corto Maltese in Siberia again, and I discovered many details that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just wanted to fill the empty corners with some cute birds. Falco peregrinus is in trouble (again), but Tauraco persa flies freely. So, to settle things once and for all: Mayann is not the “golden bird” of this story,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mayann already mentioned once that she had found a secret passage to the palace, but Falco didn’t take the bait. He’s really not making this adventuring stuff easy for anyone. Least of all, the poor author!
Usually, I let Falco quote the Doyau-Rheims Bible, but here I just preferred the King James version of those interesting lines in Psalm 91 (here abridged). The Doyau-Rheims version has other colourful details, such as “the noonday devil”, but here I really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh Mayann, why don’t you appreciate this beautiful gesture? It would make more sense for Falco to refer to any of the great Italian film divas of the era*, but I figured that they are less known to the average[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I found my steel nibs, but not the good ones… That didn’t stop me from trying this old manga trick for filling out backgrounds. There’s half a page missing where Falco climbs down the wall and falls into a rose[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Getting back to drawing comics after a long, sad break. The armoured car is inspired by the Ansaldo Lancia 1ZM, but I wasn’t so happy with the design after all. This one looks completely different from this one. I just removed those weird[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…