Try some of my other humble offerings.
Behold, a dvd documentary about yours truly by cartoonist/filmmaker Rich Henn. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, it will become a part of you. Features witty contributions from Carla Speed McNeil.
Don’t you wonder who we’re talking about when we whisper behind our hands? Ha! Ha! I’ll never tell.
And a few other items featuring contributions from me.
I knew it. Always had a nack for forseeing stuff like this.
One of my favourite pages ever. I remember being utterly amazed by the feeling of movement in panel 4 when I first saw it — that still holds true. Overall, a masterclass in comics storytelling.
I haven’t read this part of the story before, so this is cool. There’s some really excellent storytelling going on here – as always.
Thank you so much for the kind comments.
When publishing a comic (back in the day before I had email,) I’d get a lot of mail, but it tended to be very general in tone, as in “Love the book!” Or “I’m not buying your book anymore, people just sit around and talk in it.”
So it is very interesting to read these reactions page by page, and I deeply appreciate the detailed feedback. I had no idea how much people liked this scene. People just sit around and talk in it.
Wow. Fast-acting on the selwit, perhaps not so fast on the Kimarian?
And I love your books. This scene is just an example of how gorgeous and detailed your art is, but what really caught my eye was how the lines change from panel to panel. In Panels 1 & 2, Liana and D’mer are framed by the flowing posts of the bed. Then in Panel 3, the straight panels of the wall draw our eyes to the selwit on the bed. The active, out-reaching lines of Panels 4 and 6 draw attention to what’s going on with D’mer and Liana, while the poor selwit in Panel 5 is sunken in undulating waves of fabric that could also hint at its fading (or faded) vitality.
In short, *squeee!!* I love this page!
Reminds me of the scene in Raiders: “Bad dates.”
@gemina I don’t think D’Mer took a bite. And those “waves” on panel 5 are those feeler thingies that run up the selwit spine.
If you can make what is essentially a static talking heads sequence crackle with life and incident, you know you’re good.