Spring Special 2022
We last saw Lottie’s smiley purple wheely case in Author Unknown. Its appearance indicates, without question, that she means business.
Of course Charlotte has gone to the aid of her erstwhile sidekick Claire. I leave it to you to decipher the wave of emoji that made up the missive which has drawn Lottie up to the capital.
Lottie was, of course, under house arrest in Wicked Things. Her opportunities to go to the Ivy were limited. Now they are only limited by the cost of eating at the Ivy, a little beyond Lottie and Claire’s small pockets.
This comic is not sponsored by the Ivy. I have never been to the Ivy. I’m not sure why it’s the only restaurant in London I can think of. There are at least two dozen restaurants in the capital (if you include Five Guys and Garfunkels).
Have you ever experienced hypnagogia? I have, but frankly not often enough. By day I can’t really picture anything in my mind’s eye (imagine how helpful this is for a WORKING ARTIST friends) so it’s a great pleasure when my mind, betwixt waking and sleep, serves up a glorious fantasia.
My personal favourite is “a rapid-fire parade of dozens of very clear, unknown to me, faces.” I did, once, observe a crystal kingdom laid out before me, as if from an aeroplane. But these treats come about once a year.
Poor Claire. Finally she cracks.
Apologies to the audience for the fart trapped in the puffer. I don’t know what I was thinking. I wrote this story very quickly and I’ve got about two days before I have to start thinking what the next one is. There are options on the slate. We’ll see.
We’ve entered a run of pages I think look pretty good. I wish I always felt like I was hitting my marks but I don’t, sometimes I’m just scraping by. But this was a period where I felt like I was getting somewhere. I don’t really measure my drawing against anybody else’s, so I’m always floundering in the dark. Good weeks and bad weeks!
Broadwoodwidger is not a city by anyone’s reckoning but I do enjoy its name.
Given how long that last panel took me to draw, perhaps it should have been bigger.
Lottie has gone full King Of All Cosmos and I think it suits her! It won’t be happening again because recreating that signature We Love Katamari throne took me a very long time.
It’s the final week of the Spring Special! Comics Mon-Thu this week. And it looks like tomorrow will feature the return of the hottest new character in comics since WITCHBLADE!