Chekhov’s dog strikes again! I have inked a lot of pages, but scanning and retouching is a bore. (Not a boar… By the way, the year of the boar is ending. I hope the year of the rat will be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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This page got very large and I split it into two installments. I’ve mentioned it before on Goldenbird’s Facebook page, but it is very strange that this comic is set in 1920 and we are now living in 2020. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ettore should really keep his hands out of Falco’s pockets. I found Mayann’s little folk rhyme fragment in a book from 1922 called Negro Folk Rhymes: Wise and Otherwise, edited by Thomas Washington Talley, chemistry professor at Fisk University, choral[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another international man of mystery. They are flocking to this strange town. I can reveal this much: Truman voted for Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and came to regret it. “The American adventurer in old Europe” was a popular adventure film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I try to ink rough karstic rock formations, they turn smooth and rounded (like Mochi’s ). Karst happens when rock is dissolved by water, and if the rock is soft (e.g. limestone), the result – from the human perspective[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finally. Whew, those three pages were tough! This scene was on my mind for years and it has certainly evolved in a more complicated direction than before. I always get anxious when I put my characters into really dangerous situations.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While working on this page, I was watching Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death from 1964. Great dialogues! Of course, I first found out about the movie thanks to a friend who introduced me to the Norwegian gothic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…