Ah, now THIS… that’s fun to look at. Possibly my first rain scene? This is what I get wistful about in terms of black & white art. I still remember inking the squiggles in that first panel, and feeling like I was actually standing above that parking lot.
Also probably haven’t mentioned this yet, but the art for Tales Of October was all done dialogue-free, just full pages of art with a general idea of what was going to need to go where. I think I did this because I was sick of painting out word balloons every time I wanted a solo panel of art, for some standalone promotional thing? Possibly also because I drew this in my old-timey Exit-At-The-Axis size page, 8 1/2/” x 12 3/4″ as opposed to the more-standard 10″ x 15″ page… and I wasn’t sure how tiny I’d need to make the words to get them all in. Lettering it all separately and shrinking it down in P-Shop is a partial convenience.
Creepy Travis with his grabby-grabby in panel 3 would look creepier if he weren’t so pudgy… again, a Travis-designed shortcoming; see the previous commentary on page 1-15. And Kathryn would have looked more like a seventeen-year-old if I’d taken the time to draw her like that, here… oh well. “You just don’t LOOK seventeen,” indeed.
Tune in next time as Kathryn sees the glowing visage of a manifestation of the Eleven-Faced Avalokitesvara Heart Dharani Sutra, right there in the parking lot!
See you in five days!
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