The World in Deeper Inspection UPDATE Read: (Chapter 1: Pages 25 to 28)
Grimsley seeks out the advice of his begrudging ally Nikolas, who goes on a long rant.
Some lettering improvements mainly.
Come meet me at G 20-21 this CAFKL! I will be tabling with most of my comics and.... early bird copies of Alexander :O
Anonymous asked:
how did you find your agent, and what did it take to get one?
My agent, Jen Linnan, is a well-known veteran in the space - she represents Emily Carroll, one of my favourite artists who successfully makes comics in a similar way I imagine for myself (artsy fiction mostly for adults, sometimes for kids; not at all autobiographical). I'm very lucky that Jen was the only one I emailed in my search, and she took me in almost instantly.
Generally, look at the creators/writers you admire and/or are working similarly to your current/ideal state, and find out who their agents are. There are also resources now for finding and acquiring literary agents - this is the main one I recommend.
The World in Deeper Inspection UPDATE Read: (Chapter 1: Pages 23 to 24)
Gosh sorry for the late post!! TOTK weekend + postgrad consumed me.
Another one that isn’t too wild with the visual changes. For the 2023 version I contained the narrative caption inside the smoke (since it was an existing element and presented an opportunity to be utilised for compositional flow). Grimsley’s monologue reveals more lore on the ghoul and how vampiric lieges (i.e Mora Strigoi) emerge, linking the worldbuilding back to The Carpet Merchant.
Nikolas has a little bit of a design glow-up (to be fair, so did everyone in TWIDI since their first appearances).
Hiiii!!!! I’m totally late to the Alexander book fund raising, please I’m dying to know where can I get the $77 dollar edition please!!!!
Print and ebook edition of Book 1, the art book of Book 1, and the Bucephalus bookmark will be up for purchase somewhere from June or July onwards at hivemill.com? (not quite sure when exactly) Only the paper bookplates and original signed bookplates won't be available. You can follow me here or subscribe to my newsletter to get notified. @gilbertalove
Anonymous asked:
It's so nice to see alcott again!! I do miss the textures in your older work, but it's so awesome to see how your art has evolved and still have the core of your style shine through, it's amazing!
Haha, those good old days in my teen years when I used stained paper textures to simulate a traditional aesthetic. :,)
Any day that Grimsley graces us is a lovely day indeed!!!
One of the best parts of getting my comics in print is seeing the book gutter in the middle of the spread.
It's an important part of the composition that isn't at all visible in the webcomic, but really makes a big difference in the experience of reading and enjoying the comic as a piece of the book arts. It makes the art feel complete, if you know what I mean???
Book gutter is underrated tbh.
The World in Deeper Inspection UPDATE Read: (Chapter 1: Pages 17 to 22)
Real 2013 vs 2023 improvement meme hours.
Here's a sequence I was totally not looking forward to reinterpreting. My 2013 layouts were quite stiff and unexciting, kind of hemming and hawing between an illustration and comic and ending up not being good at either. For 2023 I leaned towards a more illustrative, organic approach - helped a lot by the handwritten text.
The World in Deeper Inspection UPDATE Read: (Chapter 1: Pages 13 to 16)
First spread: Barely a change from the original. It’s definitely more understated visually, though that’s made up with Grimsley’s punchier body language. Second: A pretty big rehaul. I talked about the changes I made for the 2023 layout in an older Tumblr post.
2013 vs 2023
Revamped a pretty awkward full bleed panel into two smaller ones that actually made use of comics’ unique, formalistic ability to convey wide progressions of time + space just by adding a gutter in between panels.
In the first panel, Grimsley is here; the second, he’s left. Pretty efficient, and all possible because of a black bar. ✌️
Edit: breakdown of what's happening.
You know, your handwriting looks really uniform, I thought it was typed! I bet you could fined a font program to scribe your letters to, and then you can get your "handwritten" style without killing your hands!
I already do have a couple of fonts in my handwriting, but typing it out doesn't have the organic flow and whimsy which I like about manually writing it.
It doesn't kill my hands per se, but the idea of doing 300+ pages of handwriting and then having to go through copyedits is a chore. And I would know - I had to rewrite all 660 pages of The Carpet Merchant. 😓
The World in Deeper Inspection UPDATE Read: (Chapter 1: Pages 11 to 12)
Also another set that didn't really go through a compositional rehaul, so much as a details one. I refined some things: the plaque's type, the historical accuracy of the outfits worn by the skeletions (including a personality glowup for the master of the tomb), and specificity with the design of the props.
Doesn't get old seeing my webcomic in book form. 👀
The World in Deeper Inspection UPDATE Read: (Chapter 1: Pages 7 to 10)
Check out the individual pages for the breakdown, but essentially, not much changed between these 2023 and 2013 layouts, other than some details and cleaner lines
2023 // 2013
Really like how the revamped layout looks.
I love using my handwriting to letter my comics but RIP it's not sustainable for more than 200 pages (I would do it though)
The World in Deeper Inspection UPDATE Read: (Chapter 1: Pages 5 to 6)
My style hasn’t changed fundamentally but the execution is deffo way better. The hand-lettering helps with the cohesion too.
It’s fun getting back into drawing sharper, stylised shapes. Stuff like Alexander Comic leans closer towards realism so I can’t bend and kink silhouettes as much RIP
Not much tweaking with this layout – the original’s composition is pretty decent. I swapped out the panel of “Grimsley putting away the teapot” for “Grimsley about to take a sip” so that the visual transition is clearer and makes more logical sense. Toned down the red in the palette. Redesigned the tea set to be more specific to the era, with a hint of Chinoiserie as a sneaky nod to TCM’s ‘Orientalism is a pervasive Western lens in every part of an English setting’ theme.
hi! i’m here from a prompt from halcyonhue about arepo. i really loved it, and i’m curious if there’s any more related to arepo? sorry if ur the wrong person, i’m kind of wandering down a rabbit hole rn hahah
Other than the original story thread, my comics adaptation and the other comics adaptation (which you can see summarised on TV Tropes) - I don't think there's anything else? Obviously there are alternate variants of the Arepo story that riffed off sadoeuphemist's response - but the "canon" universe is the sadoeuphemist -> ciiriianan -> stu-pot thread from which the other adaptation and mine arose. And halcyonhue succeeded me.
After very very long I am finally getting started on my guide to comics narrative devices. So far I have collected around 48. Once I put in the relevant rhetorical, poetic-literary and film devices it's gonna be around 80. Yeesh, daunting...............