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Thanks for everybody who came out to get drawings and prints during last weekend’s Free Comic Book Day at 901 Comics— I had a great time, and hope you did, too!
Up next: The Emerald City!
Category: Ch. 01: Tempest in a teapot
“Experiencing some turbulence”
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That was a close call! It sounds like Minerva should have provided everybody with a pre-flight safety demonstration!
Free Comic Book Day is coming on Saturday, and this year I’ll be drawing from noon-3 at 901 Comics in Midtown Memphis; hope you can join me there … or find some free comics in your own neighborhood. Any day is a great day to read comics, but Free Comic Book Day is an especially good one; I hope you’re able to take advantage of it!
“Flight of fancy”
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I don’t often do splash pages like this; especially with a week between episodes, they don’t give a lot of story content for the space they use. But since W.W. Denslow created such lovely plates for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, I wanted to include some in my Oz story, too … and in such a way that places them in the context of the story.
On another technical note, I’m switching to present tense with my writing here. I was trying to match Baum’s use of past tense, but I just didn’t like how it meshed with spoken dialog in a comic panel. For the writers out there, compare this week’s strip to this one and this one— which sounds better to your ears?
“Tempest in a teapot”
“Travel plans”
“What’s taking so long?!?”
“Fashion show”
“Say it three times fast”
“Hold on a second!”
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And, we’re off!
Settling on the visual look for a long storyline is always a little daunting, since it means I’ll need to stick to it (more or less) for a year or two until it reaches its end. Let me know what you think about this look…
Watusi the Talking Dog 