I can't say I've been busy. I can say I may be going slightly mad. I'm unsure exactly what has become unhinged. I see familiar faces on strangers, I've been lingering around places we used to meet, I've been waking up from dreams which I can't differentiate from reality. I'm hoping it passes in due course. The move should help.
I'm moving again. I've lived in this current room for about 3 months; This is the shortest stint living in a place ever, for me, who generally roots down and won't be shifted for at least a year. I'm moving closer to things, into a larger room (which isn't necessarily saying much, considering that my current accommodations are roughly the size of a roomy shoe box), in an older house. I've wanted to live in this place since the world cup, when we'd go over before games at 4 in the morning and bake cakes with insulting slogans written across them in dutch. Good times. The downside to all this is that I'll be broke for a little while, as I have to pay rent in both places for a month. But it's worth it. Incidentally, if anyone wants to pay $400 to live in a shoe box by the ocean for a month, just holler at me.
In working news, I've been trying to finish this thing off. At least the image portion if it. It's been slow going due to my malaise, but I've got almost all of the drawings done and ready to paint.
This one's just the pencil sketch so far, but I like how it's turning out. It's another cut away shot, like the earlier badger-killing-dogs one. I've decided that I need more of those, because just having one in a series of 30 or so seems like a waste of a cool idea.
A plaintive Brother Cat tries to sway the steely and uncaring resolve of Brother Owl. This will follow the challenge he receives below. These aren't in any kind of order because I can't figure out how to move them around on the page. This is just as well, considering that none of the others have been presented in order anyway. If you want a well presented picture, wait for the end result you impetuous lout!
Following the tragic interaction with Brother Cat (see directly below), Brother Badger makes good his escape and struggles on toward hopeful assistance. A bit of odd trivia: The paneled window on the third house from the left looks into the same office the cat pleas with the owl in above. When that one is complete, you should be able to see this street scene from the other side, albeit without the staggering for of Brother Badger getting his vital humours all over the cobbles.
The scene preceding the above and proceeding from one already posted a while ago. Foppish action poses from both of the beasts, but hopefully when painted the eye will be distracted by the blood.
Brother Rabbit doing what he does best: well timed and wholesale destruction. This has a place in the narrative, but I'm still not 100% sure where. I've got some ideas. And every story needs a bloody explosion at some point, doesn't it? Didn't we learn any lessons from Die Hard?
There is nothing so disconcerting as receiving a pine box full of dog heads in the mail, especially when they belong to the same dogs you have ordered to do your dark bidding. And even more especially when it comes with a letter of challenge from someone you know is capable of murdering the living shit out of you in a sword fight. Tough break, Cat.
Brother Bear issues the order for bloodshed. Not a big fan of violence, this beast, but good at it. Clearly the grey coats are much more pleased about the decision than their leader is, but they've always been a bunch satisfied by unrelenting, kill-crazy rampages.
I've got a few others ready for paint, and a couple others still being penciled in. Progress is being made, though the pace isn't tremendously constant.
The other part of this in progress is a brilliant idea that my main man D. Gregory Price and I cooked up. When it's done, and in book form, there will also be an accompanying audiobook, featuring the text read by someone with eloquent elocution and music written by the man himself. We've also decided that it will be funny as hell to include the bell tone to indicate the time to turn the page, as a lot of old children's audiobook/book combinations had (see: Teddy Ruxpin et al). This will give us the opportunity to present the whole thing as a multi-media display as well. I look forward to this. I just hope my brain holds out. I anticipate early onset dementia. Gives me something to hope for, at least.
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