A DISTANT SOIL: The Gathering Chapter 12 Page 1

Page 1 of A Distant Soil #12. Circa 1996! Holy cow. Seems like yesterday. Except my lettering has improved somewhat over the years. I hope.

These were also the first pages I did to American comic proportions, so they are easier to read on the website. The originals are very small, almost as small as manga-sized originals.

For some reason, my previous publisher insisted on doing their graphic novels to magazine proportion. No one does that anymore, and the sizing has caused minor problems in every edition of the book since. One of my printers even tried to force the pages to fit a graphic novel collection by transforming the proportions in Photoshop. Fortunately, I caught it before the book went to press, but the entire volume had to be reshot.