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.
If you need a reminder, this was Tony’s role in the events of last week. (and as always, corrections to Tony’s french are welcomed happily. Don’t be shy.)
I can't hear "How you doin'?" without flashing back to the 1990s and "Friends".
Flats for now, shading in a bit. Got myself sidetracked looking into merch store options. Set up a couple placeholder/demo items on Cafepress, Society6 and Zazzle; still making a decision on who to use. -SHADING DONE-
I was originally going to put a little "editors note" narrator-box mentioning that Lynni is in a different class from the rest of the kids, only to remember that Wu and Sandy are ALSO not in Selkie George and Giselle's class. So, blam, Lynni's with them. So is Ricky because why not.
