Keeping Time x B-SIDE You

I've had this idea in my head for MONTHS now but I've been unable to draw it because I just couldn't spare the time. Finally, now that I'm in between chapters of Keeping Time, I HAD A CHANCE TO SIT DOWN AND DRAW IT!

B-SIDE You is a really great webcomic with hundreds of pages already up by Kaycie D!

Aspiring musician and delinquent-in-reform, Danny Strife, strikes up a friendship with bookish teaching assistant, Alden Taylor, at community college. Danny educates Alden about his favorite subject – music – and Alden shows Danny a potential future at an amazing music school. As time goes on, however, their feelings for each other grow beyond friendship… and definitely beyond student and TA…

Kaycie and I clearly grew up around the same time, being influenced by a lot of the same culture and music, and so much of B-Side You is extremely resonant to me!! (I also love that Daniel and Danny share a name base, but have very different approaches to the way they use it...! Danny of B-Side You hates being called Danny Boy, but you'll see eventually in Keeping Time that that's what the Learys call Daniel. JUST LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT. I LOVE.)

Kaycie's art is incredible; she's SO good at really lively expressions and body language (I have a whole selection of hands she's drawn saved to my computer for ~inspiration~), and it was really fun getting to borrow her boys. I feel like a kid playing in someone else's toybox whenever I get to draw Denver and Daniel hanging out with other people's characters!

Anyway, if you need something to read while I'm hammering down the script/thumbnails for chapters 3, 4, and 5, then I highly recommend reading B-Side You!! It might scratch that itch of 'queer romance between dudes in the 2000s where music plays an important part of their relationship' for you!!