Oh, this is absolutely lovely, in typical Secret Knots fashion. A tiny sliver of a story, in a world that feels only a step away from our world, almost like something built from our unconscious. The fact that it’s transforming an existing work of literature helps that, I think – there’s a lot of threads to spin from small facets of narratives embedded in popular culture.
The idea of what exactly happens to the (otherwise narratively irrelevant) progenitor of a supernatural or mystical occurence is a fascinating one that I hadn’t quite seen before now.
Your adeptness at weaving different modes of colour is breathtaking as always, and I like the playful dip into typography.
Thank you very much. This story took a while to be done, and I went through different moods as the adventures of Basil passed through different periods as well. It’s very likely that the color choices reflect that, a bit of purposeful change in color according to the era, and some of my own disposition at the time. I left many things to be worked intuitively in late stages this time 🙂
Ooh I just finished your entire backlog and this might be my favorite! I was impressed by the consistently excellent quality and the uncanny, bittersweet tone your comics always deliver. Fifteen years of top-notch comics!
“Like a shadow”
That is so excellent!
Thanks! I had planned to make more typographic play along the story, but it seemed to have more sense in the Victorian portion of it.
Oh, this is absolutely lovely, in typical Secret Knots fashion. A tiny sliver of a story, in a world that feels only a step away from our world, almost like something built from our unconscious. The fact that it’s transforming an existing work of literature helps that, I think – there’s a lot of threads to spin from small facets of narratives embedded in popular culture.
The idea of what exactly happens to the (otherwise narratively irrelevant) progenitor of a supernatural or mystical occurence is a fascinating one that I hadn’t quite seen before now.
Your adeptness at weaving different modes of colour is breathtaking as always, and I like the playful dip into typography.
Thank you very much. This story took a while to be done, and I went through different moods as the adventures of Basil passed through different periods as well. It’s very likely that the color choices reflect that, a bit of purposeful change in color according to the era, and some of my own disposition at the time. I left many things to be worked intuitively in late stages this time 🙂
This was fantastic, thank you!
Thank you Eric!
This is so haunting and poignant. It makes me want to read the book again.
Ooh I just finished your entire backlog and this might be my favorite! I was impressed by the consistently excellent quality and the uncanny, bittersweet tone your comics always deliver. Fifteen years of top-notch comics!
Thank you!
I just saw this on tumblr! I’m definitely following this page from now on. Your work is amazing
Thanks a lot! That’s very kind. I’m glad you found my comics on Tumblr, it’s my most active social media.
I hope you enjoy the next stories.