The next Secret Knots comic is a about a monastic scribe who draws erotic stories for his abbot, and I totally forgot how a certain train of thought became this story, but I’m so into it. Pornography and monasteries, my friends.
While looking for references I learned the somewhat disappointing fact that the scriptorium is mostly an idealization of how we imagine the place where monks copied and illustrated manuscripts, or at least a rare occurrence, since most of this task was apparently carried on by lonely scribes in their own cells . On the other hand, comics tend to rely on common places in order to convey more efficiently some situations, so I kept drawing the big writing hall I had imagined (probably from reading the Name of the Rose) which serves much better as the stage of my story. Still, the image of the lonely monk doing his careful writing probably has a special resonation too, particularly on those who do their thing in isolated spaces. The slow making of comics applies.
I’m a bit late in delivering the Space Hero drawings, but they’ll definitely be arriving within this week to those on tiers 3+ who claimed them.
I hope you have a fantastic week.
J.S.
Reading: Michael Moorcock’s books are hard to find here in Chile so whenever I see one I try to add it to my small collection, and this time I found Sailor on the Seas of Fate, an Elric novel, which I’m enjoying.
Still reading Murakami’s 1Q84 because it’s huge and it lags by the middle. My cat wrestles it sometimes, other times uses it to rest its head.
Watching: The OA. The Expanse.
Scrolling through:
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