Archive for November, 2023
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When I was 13 or 14 I had a dream of turquoise boots, a very vivid dream. Perhaps that dream was a premonition of drawing this page.
The Reverend is boiling the kettle. I suspect he feels like it’s the only thing he can do.
I wouldn’t say this comic was heavy with religious symbolism. It’s merely verging on the merry.
Every few months there is a page that I find very hard to draw, and it’s never a complex one. I chipped away at this one for ages, redrawing panels and couldn’t make it graceful enough. As I am sure I’ve said before, under these circumstances, one should throw the original rough (and maybe even the script) for the page away and find another way to say the same thing – if it needed saying at all. But by the time I realise I’m in trouble, it’s far too late for a redux.
The nice thing is, as one of hundreds, it skates by the viewer’s eyes. It’s only during those fruitless hours working on it where it is the only thing in front of my face that the page truly annoys me.
I decided while drawing this page that every time I write the words “ding dong” in Steeple from now on, it will be in gothic script. I get in at least one more before the end.
The Michelin man, or “Bibendum”, is one of my favourite character designs in his original form. Here is a film where you can witness his genesis, accompanied by someone playing a barrelhouse version of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue”. What rich gravy the past was.
Oh no, Lorraine Lumsford, the scourge of Tredregyn Parish. She’s the Bishop’s fixer and she really has it in for Billie and Reverend Penrose. Last appearance: The Silvery Moon.