Sluice gates

When I sold an old iPad I found a folder of stuff it had saved to its internal storage in Clip Studio (before it could save to iCloud, thereby spoiing me ROTTEN). Most of it was rubbish but there were one or two interesting things that hopefully I have not posted before.

Here are the notes for the Bobbins.horse story where Shelley has to go and work in the basement. As heretofore stated, any story I do about character being trapped is my subconscious telling me that I too am trapped. Perhaps when I am dead, my heirs will collect a book of all the stories I did about someone stuck in a featureless Gilligan's Island of the mind. Don't buy it.

If I start to produce a "trapped" now, I book a holiday. Of course, groups of characters trapped together are a staple of sitcoms, which may tell you something about the state of mind of the people writing them.

Four cover roughs for BY NIGHT. I did covers for the first six issues. Never have I been more trapped than I was by this series. I genuinely think I'm still recovering from trying to squeeze it in to my schedule. TRAPPED! Nice covers though. I did like these characters. I wish I'd had an extra year to think about what they were going to do.

Giant Days practice for issue 48.

 

Some background material I produced for Julia Madrigal for Giant Days 38.

 Rejected Bad Machinery cover design

 Steeple 4 cover rough drawn while on holiday in my sketchbook. Perfect.

 "Music to infinity"

Wen-Tack characters.  Again, they might have been served by some more careful thought and a more robust vehicle. I liked them all.

Something else for By Night. If it seems like I can't remember much about By Night, it's because by the back half I was writing in a kind of "fugue state". I recall there being an issue about a business meeting, and one which is a flashback to a By Night comic from 1990, but you may tell me I'm wrong about this. I hope it was good!