After drawing roly-poly Akita puppies for decades, switching to Borzoi long bois ain’t easy. Luckily these are still puppies. These “Russian wolfhounds” were fashionable pets in the early 20th century, along with other large sighthounds like the greyhound and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Continuing the last panel of yesterday’s installment, we see now the lawn in front of the Dux’s palace and the Dux himself approaching. This panel will cover the bottom 1/4th of page 4 and the bottom half of page 5[…]↓ 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…
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…