Back to the drawing board! I was suddenly inspired to draw by three things: The Siren and the Star by Colby Cedar Smith, a breathlessly passionate YA novel about a girl discovering the music of Barbara Strozzi, a 17th century[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Honestly, in my original manuscript Falco was as meek as a lamb, but once I started to sketch the page, he decided to try out this stunt. We’ll see if his attempt to impress the Dux will succeed (once I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m back after my travel break. Goldenbird is a light-hearted adventure comic set in the aftermath of the First World War. The characters have always been conscious of this, but they have been too caught up in the action to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You might have seen her before: Chapter 2, Discriminating Taste Or heard about her: Chapter 5, La Peregrini Admittedly, it’s been 10 years in real time between each mention of her in this comic… A good excuse to reread the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Aspirante ufficiale is a designation that you often encounter when looking through rolls and lists of Italian men serving in WW1. In the extremely bloody battles on the Alpine front, Italy lost many officers and had to rapidly train anyone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All the Dux’s men are old enough to have served in the war that only ended two years earlier, so the problem is not that Falco is an ex-soldier. The Dux opposes both the Italian and the Yugoslav governments, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I hope the gradients convey the “geometric horror” of this First World War POW camp situated near Celle, Lower Saxony. Originally Falco was supposed to have been just a regular soldier, but once I started to read up on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another glimpse of Falco’s backstory (20 years in the making; there is much, much more that won’t fit into this comic…). Long after I came up with this storyline, I discovered that Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And cut! Next page will move to a different part of Ginestra – what on earth have Andy, Lou and Goldie been up to in the meantime? You can check the end of chapter 6 if you want to refresh[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…