Murder She Writes notes
Added 2020-05-31 14:48:31 +0000 UTCMurder She Writes was the best-selling of the run of mini-comics I made between 2011 and 2016. I had to reprint it three or four times. I wanted to do more issues but other things got in the way. I got halfway to a successor - "Yoga She Writes" - but was never quite in a position to draw it. Wicked Things is meant to be the continuation of this thread, if it does well enough to go to an ongoing series, you should eventually see the yoga story done right. Because I do not have the luxury of wasting material.
Here are a couple of my pages of notes for Murder She Writes. The careful planning this story required completely changed my previously slapdash, improvisational style of plotting, where as late as 2012 I would operate with huge holes to be filled. It turned out to be a huge creative breakthrough.
Don't ask me what the "vast, egg-like mass" was because I have no idea. Below is the page of my sketchbook where I worked the whole 36-page comic out. Spoilers: I used a character grid, something I still employ whenever I have a number of people in a story to juggle.
Comments
These sketches prompted me to dig out and reread my copy of MSW. It was, again, a delight. Charlotte has been a favorite of mine since her first appearances in Scary-go-round.
William Cole
2020-06-02 14:34:28 +0000 UTCThere’s always a pecking order in what I’m working on of what gets the time, the best ideas and the most emotional investment. If I feel like I’d short-change a project I care about, I’ve learned not to draw it until I have the headspace to do it right.
2020-06-01 19:27:10 +0000 UTCNever quite in a position to draw it, very good Mr. A. 😅
Steve Jeffery
2020-06-01 14:00:31 +0000 UTC
