… 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…