Book 1, Page 122
Added 2020-01-22 21:51:00 +0000 UTCWelcome back to weekly updates!
Credit goes to Barry for this cool page layout. The script had a few suggestions. I liked his idea of using Gladys Bentley's silhouette as a panel border, and I wanted to include both a panel of the four friends watching the concert, and a close-up of Lillian. I also didn't want the page to be made of identically-shaped panels. I associate regular panel grids with action, and this is a moment that Lillian is savoring. So I drew Gladys's silhouette, the friends at the table, and Lillian's close-up separately in Photoshop, and asked Barry to do something with it. :)
Most of the outfits in the background come from "Fashionable Clothing From the Sears Catalogs: Early 1940s," which I've renewed from the library approximately 129 times. The waiters' vests, which are basically too small to see, came from my friend Molly's autobio comic, Unpopular before it was cool. (She works in a restaurant where the waitstaff have old-timey outfits).
Off the subject, I wasn't sure of the proper way to hold a martini glass. So I looked up "holding a martini glass," and one of the autofill suggestions was "squirrel holding a martini glass." What's that about, Google?!
As always, thanks for the support, and I hope you enjoyed this peek behind the scenes!
