The Secret Knots

Work notes: A full Dossier for the Basil Hallward comic is publicly available on Patreon, with sketches, concepts, photo references and more. If you enjoy taking a look at the odd and always unpredictable process of ideas taking form, as I do, it’s now free to access.

The comic has been doing well on Tumblr and here in the web version. The Tumblr version is modified to fit better most mobile formats, although I had to split it in two parts due to native restrictions there, and also because you don’t want to put an endless scroll in followers’ dahsboard (and then expect them to reblog said scroll). It’s slightly webtoonised it order to fit that format, but that’s nothing new here. It’s been several years since I’ve had to find a middle ground between traditional page format characteristics and scrolling format for my comics, and some stories benefit even further from passing progressively in front of the reader’s eyes. I guess a full conversion for this comic could have implied separating the shots of the actress Dita Lanner passing one by one on the screen for a cool motion pictures trick, but that’s an afterthought, and sounds like a full immersion exercise in webtoon format. Which is not to say that I shouldn’t try something like that some time…

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I didn’t know the work of Polish artist Zofia Stryjenska. For instance, her gorgeous series of Slavic Deities.

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Thank you very much for all the good feedback en the Basil comic. I’ll be back in a few days with some updates on the next Secret Knots story.

J.S.