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Old Ghosts page 26 hides in cold, dark places (as do SDCC and Beyond)

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Politically InQueerect: Old Ghosts page 26 is up! I think this definitively answers the question of whether or not Gran makes a special point of winding up Archer. (And if he didn’t react, would she bother?)

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

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

Fun/gross historical fact: many old houses in Europe used to have their cesspools in the basement, before the advent of modern plumbing. Gran’s house would be no exception. Maybe THAT’S why Archer doesn’t want to go down there (though it wouldn’t have been in use for over 100 years).

SDCC

In SDCC news, more write-ups of the Trans Panel are trickling in. Here’s one from Bleeding Cool.

Beyond

Beyond Valley of the Silk Sky
In very exciting(for me) Beyond news, I finished my story at last! All 16 pages of the derned thing. My big project post-Old Ghosts is to get started on a new webcomic featuring these Beyond characters, so keep an eye out for that. More news as I get more specifics.

Cheers,

Dylan

Old Ghosts page 25 arises from the grave

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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

Old Ghosts page 23 dissipates into a puff of smoke

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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

PiQue: Old Ghosts page 22 has just nipped out for a minute, will commence haunting after break

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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

Old Ghosts page 21 was secretly there the whole time

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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

Old Ghosts page 20 coalesces from the shadows

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PiQue: Old Ghosts page 20 is up! Todd and Archer discuss the horrors of being haunted by a treacle tart, and the moral ramifications of rampant vegetable slaughter.

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

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

In Beyond news, I’m inking away on my story. Got the line work done on 9 out of 16 pages. My plan is to do digital shading on this one, so I’ll be scanning those inks today, that I may begin laying in flats, and then trade off inking and flatting at my whim.

Why digital shading? First of all, it’s a long story, so making sure the tones work together from one page to the next while staying consistent is going to take some tweaking. Easier to do that with digital. Second, the anthology is black & white, but I want the option to do a color version in the future. That’ll be a whole heckuva lot simpler and faster to achieve if I do the B&W version on the compooper. So there you have it. I expect I’ll be posting teasers of in-progress pages over on my tumblr in the next couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for that.

Cheers,

Dylan

Page 19 of Old Ghosts is startled awake

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Page 19 of Old Ghosts is up! I am actually quite jealous of Todd’s ability to fall asleep so easily. Not necessarily jealous of the tendency to drool, but … eh? Tradeoffs.

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’ve gotten approval on my pencils, so I’ve started the process of inking all these pages. I have about a six week buffer of finished pages on Old Ghosts, so I’m hoping that will be sufficient to cover me while I get my story for Beyond done.

Cheers,

Dylan

Old Ghosts page 18’s foul odor betrays its presence

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Politically InQueerect: Old Ghosts page 18 is up! And a little early, too, as I have jury duty and won’t be able to post at my usual time. Read it here on Tapastic (scheduled post, so it’ll go up at the usual time), or here on Studio NDR.

I’m sure you all remember Gran’s colorful description of the contents of the haunted wardrobe from page 13, yes? Archer (or, at least, his subconscious) clearly does.

Art notes: In my own dreams, places are often visually completely different from what they look like in real life, even though in the dream I never question this discrepancy. I couldn’t really do that here without having the location change just confuse the heck out of people (and who knows, maybe other people dream places that look just like they do in real life).

Instead, I cranked up the color saturation and made the lighting off kilter, and changed some details of the room’s layout and accoutrements. So you the reader can tell it’s supposed to be the same room, but something about it is … awry.

Cheers,

Dylan

PiQue: Old Ghosts page 17 is just a trick of the wind

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Page 17 of Old Ghosts is up! Is Archer’s stomach hurting because of all the treacle tart, or because of the cutesy nicknames?

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 other exciting news, I finished the pencils for my story for Beyond! It now sits with the editors awaiting their comment. Once I have their approval, I’ll move on to the inks.

In the meantime, I’m back to coloring the remaining pages of Old Ghosts. Gotta build that buffer back up, dontcha know. Well, and finish the comic, I guess. BUT. You know. Point is, CoLoRiNg.

Cheers,

Dylan

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