A belated thank you to everyone who offered feedback on my “reading Selkie with kids” question earlier. It was just something I’d been bouncing around my head, glad to hear thoughts on it.
Wanted to have Amanda sing "Do you wanna build a snowman" in panel 3 but didn't feel the association between that and stacking kids atop each other was quite readily apparent enough.
Little State of the Comic note for this week. I mentioned on the previous strip’s notes that I would have to miss Friday’s strip and maybe even Wednesday’s, if you recall. I am on a trip this week and am[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dagger Stare, like Incandescent Light Bulb Head, is more classic cartoon iconography. Mina does not have super dagger-manifestation powers. Well, not at this point of the story, anyway...
Lineart on this one is complete crap because my scanner isn’t working, so I had to take a picture of the drawn page with my cell phone. It makes a compelling argument for going back to computer-inking, I tell you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An early draft of panel 4 was a dream sequence bit I cut out from a much earlier point in the comic. In that original draft, Plo Quar (her mother) shifted to a 1930s cartoon style complete with big white gloves and noodle-arms, gave Selkie a left-handed salute while saying, "So long, Screwy! See ya in Saint Louie!" before jet rocket flames erupted from her feet and she blasted off into the dreamscape's stratosphere. It's a really fun idea, but I think a simpler rendering distracts less from what the imagery suggests about Selkie's inner thoughts.
Selkie’s mom has a role in this. – – – – – So Elder Scrolls Online early access began last weekend, and I am DEVOURING this game you all. Meet my Argonian Templar, Smells-Like-Teen-Spirit.
Someone needs to get a fish-flavored sugar-free ice cream cone after all this.
Selkie doesn’t have experience with sarnothi written language and she’s not fourth-wall enough to read her own speech bubbles.
Tried to re-create the way young me used to draw and write for this page, including the use of actual ballpoint pen and notebook paper and holding the pen in the really ham-fisted way young me held it.
Not gonna bother tagging them since they’re tertiary background cast members, but the three floating heads, er, kids in panel 2 are Selkie’s classmates: Caitlyn, Paulo, and “Star”. – – – – – Quick announcements. Firstly, Selkie’s made it into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My original concept for the library was a towering array of bookshelves filled to the brim. But I scaled back a bit owing to the strip's semi-realistic approach to things (I don't think public elementary schools have towering bookshelves). Ceiling's still ridiculously high up, though.
Occurs to me that I should probably do more backlinks for this stuff. “You all lied about us and faked sick and stuff!” “She kicked me!” – – – – – Also, a fanart update! Danielle C sent me a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Was gonna have Mike mention the bit about Truck to Tony, but decied to shift that dialogue to Giselle because the last page was already wordy enough. Original dialogue on this page was mostly just more taunting back-and-forth.
ComicMix is doing their Webcomic March Madness contest again this year. If so willing, please vote for Selkie. 😀
Never really found an organic spot to fit this in during the snowball fight arc and it still feels a bit forced here, but I wanted to just touch base on how Tony knows all these kids well enough that they'll come running to a crew call: -Mike Rob Gideon and "Tommy the Truck" are friends from a community football league run through the school (He also has Rob Mike and Gideon as classmates). -Giselle is friends with Rob through their mothers (https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie352/), and friends with Tony and Mike through him. Also a classmate. -Lynni is Gideon's fraternal twin sister. She's in class with Sandy and Wu. Knows the rest through her brother.
