Evan Dorkin

October Experiment: One Panel a Day 1

Added 2020-10-02 04:33:02 +0000 UTC

Welcome to the best month of the year, even if this is likely to be the worst best month in some time for far too many people.

I'm going to try to add a panel to the Experiment project every day this month for Halloween. If you're new here, the Experiment is a work in progress consisting of comic panels done on index cards, drawn directly in ink (and often corrected with white ink, and redrawn, because I'm someone who really needs to pencil first. But this is part of the experiment, as well, to just draw what comes out of my head and get the lines down).

Eventually the panels will start to tell me a story, and at some point I'll start giving that more thought and add some connective tissue and see where it takes me. I hope. Either way, it gives me something to do with very little structure or expectations.

I haven't named any of the characters I've drawn so far, other than the cubby hole baby. I liked the way the creature in the panel above came out and have referred to it in my head as a wicker man (that name's taken, of course), a stick man and a bundle.

I think this one makes the cut if the story comes together. I hope it does, it's fun to draw and I think it looks pretty nifty. I can see some ways it might be used. I think there would be more than one of these things. Hmmm.