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Page 25 of Old Ghosts is up! Archer is incorrigible. He will not be corriged! Read it here on Tapastic, or here on Studio NDR.

Need to get caught up? The archive of pages posted to date is here.

Art notes: More backgrounds culled from photos I took. That beige building that looks like a church isn’t actually a church (I think it’s some sort of civic building), and the fenced area isn’t a graveyard IRL. But there are many such graveyards in city centres throughout the UK, and I figured this story needed at least one cemetery.

Shrewsbury is Charles Darwin’s hometown, and the library sports a Darwin statue out front. I do have a picture of said statue, but I didn’t think to use it as a background until it was too late. Still not sure if it would have been a fun detail or an overly heavy-handed image for this story.

Oh, hey, and thanks to everyone who came to the first-ever SDCC panel on trans themes in comics. We had a full house, and a lively discussion that spilled out of the room and continued throughout the convention. I do believe the panel was videotaped, so if it goes up online I’ll let you know. For now, there’s a short write-up on Tor’s website.

Cheers,

Dylan

Old Ghosts page 24 permeates the atmosphere, SDCC descends

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Page 24 of Old Ghosts is up! Strolling through the streets of Shrewsbury, Todd and Archer discuss whether or not basic biological principles have a sense of fairness

Read it here on Tapastic, or here on Studio NDR. The archive of all pages posted to date is here.

Art notes: I’ve been to Shrewsbury twice, and the backgrounds are from photos I took during my trips. (Yes, Shrewsbury’s castle is indeed red.)

The black heart motif in the top building is true to the original. One of those minor details that’s ultimately inconsequential, but provides a nice juxtaposition to the text. I posted one of the original photos on my tumblr awhile back.

Also, quick reminder that I’ll be at the Prism Comics/Northwest Press booth (#2144) during SDCC 2014. I’ll also be speaking on the panel Breaking Barriers: Transgender Trends in Popular Culture on Thursday, July 24, 5 p.m.-6 p.m., Room 28DE. This is apparently the first ever trans-specific panel at SDCC, so NO PRESSURE, right.

Cheers,

Dylan

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Page 23 of Politically InQueerect: Old Ghosts is up! Gran has another tale for us, and Archer has a VERY fascinating newspaper. Read it here on Tapastic, or here on Studio NDR.

Need to get caught up? The archive of pages posted to date is here.

Research notes for this page: turns out if you do an image search for 1930s British servants’ uniforms, you get a whole bunch of stills from Downton Abbey. It took awhile to find some references closer to the source.

Also, in the original thumbnails, I had our shifty footman sporting a gangsterrific pencil moustache. But in the course of my costume research, I learned that no self-respecting household at the time would have deigned to allow facial hair on one of the staff. So the final version of him is clean-shaven.

Gran would have been maybe 8 years old at the time of the incident, for those of you tracking chronology.

Quick reminder that SDCC is next week! The Advocate has a post about queer goings on at SDCC, including my panel Breaking Barriers: Transgender Trends in Popular Culture (Thursday, July 24, 5 p.m.-6 p.m., in Room 28DE).

I will otherwise be milling about the Northwest Press table at the Prism Comics booth (#2144 in Hall C). Hope to see you there!

Cheers,

Dylan

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Page 22 of Old Ghosts is up! Turns out ghosts need to take breaks occasionally? (I spent more time than was strictly necessary figuring out which of Britain’s several national papers would be Archer’s rag of choice. He is, of course, a Times reader.)

Read it here on Tapastic, or here on Studio NDR.

Need to get caught up? The archive of pages posted to date is here.

SDCC news: yes, I will be there! I’ll be hanging around the Northwest Press table, which will once again be part of the Prism Comics mega-booth. I’ll also be on the “BREAKING BARRIERS: TRANSGENDER TRENDS IN POPULAR CULTURE” panel, which is Thursday, 7/24/14, 5:00p.m. – 6:00p.m., Room: 28DE. More queer comics panel deets here.

Finally, this week’s Beyond progress report: all pages are inked, and 15 out of 16 pages are flatted. After that, it’s time for shading, texturing, and other finishing touches, and then it is DONE. My hope is to have it finished before SDCC, but we’ll see if that actually happens. Chaos tends to intervene.

Cheers,

Dylan

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Page 21 of PiQue: Old Ghosts is up! You’re always complaining that Archer never smiles. Well, here you go! Don’t you feel better now? (Huh. I wonder what Archer could be up to. Oh well, probably nothing, right?) Read it here on Tapastic, or here on Studio NDR.

Need to get caught up? The archive of pages posted to date is here.

In Beyond news, I’m still trucking along with the inking and shading. I’m in the midst of inking page 14, and have 6 pages flatted. I would really, really like to have that done before I go to San Diego for Comic Con, but we’ll see if that actually happens. Chaos has a way of intervening. Still, it’s not completely unreasonable, right?

Cheers,

Dylan

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