Fwoosh. Also, just feel like sharing the music I inked this strip to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMl8CraRBk0
Scripted sound effects for Panel 6, but I think it's more effective without.
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I don't think I drew Selkie bouncing gleefully enough in Panel 5.
Linkbacks: Gregori and Hamud staring. Dr. Bunny-Me. Also, yesterday was the comic’s 5th birthday! Selkie (the story) is now FIVE! As is annual tradition, here’s a birthday sketch:
I make no claims towards the scientific or taxonomic accuracy of these fish. ;)
A reader comment by Dawn ("Selkie needs to know that an octopus isn’t a fishy, but a cephalopod.") inspired the cephalopod bit. The desk guy just kept staring and saying "uuuhhhhh" in my original draft. Thanks, Dawn!
My original draft was for Pohl to say, "She's an egg, Todd. She doesn't really need much from us until she hatches", but on further thought I think the De'Madieas know better than to discuss such things openly.
Anime Central was fantastic! Thanks to everyone who came out to my table and said hello. It was great meeting everyone. 😀
In America, you go on 'shrooms. In Sarnoth, 'shrooms go on you.
Today’s strip was a little bit late because I got too distracted training my five-year-old girl to summon elemental primals instead of rainbow-squirrels. Also got a Fanart post to share today! This image was drawn by Lucheek in an art[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pohl puts the "magi" in "magitech". I wanted to close out the De'Madiea family's appearance with something unique that Todd and Selkie couldn't necessarily see/hear, but not something that ended the arc on a huge plot-related WHAM note like the "last of her clan's survivors" exposition from the hospital scene.
Happy 2014 Selkie readers! (Actually I am posting this a few hours early, so it may be 2013 still as you read this. Early strip to celebrate. XD) It’s been another great year, and I am looking forward to many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sarnothi religion includes the concept of a dual-spirit. There is a spirit-self which is comparable to the idea of a "soul", but also a second spirit (a separate entity entirely) that serves as a bridge between the corporeal and spiritual worlds. Pluralized word forms are commonly used to address both a person's spirit-self and their spirit-bridge counterpart simultaneously, to avoid disrespecting one or the other.
Since, like… ALWAYS, Selkie. (For this installment of Poor Time Management Theater, I may focus on trying to make Wednesdays strip on-time then go back to this one later.)
I'd ask how many people had wondered about where Selkie's speech patterns come from, but I am afraid the amount of affirmative responses would crash the comments server.
Hope everyone had a good holiday. I loves me some Christmas but I think I love National Clearanced Candy Day almost as much. :3 Also, because I’ve been trying to do more with the line work and because arts and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The quote about fleeing comes from sarnothi hand-to-hand combat traditions. Meaning, yes, there IS mermaid karate. The techniques don't do much on land though. XD
