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Aftercare (4)

Aftercare (4)

The Special Weather Event is spilling out of the Foodclown Foodfunhut and that really doesn’t look very good but Jobclown said the job was done so I guess… it’s… okay?

Aftercare (3)

Aftercare (3)

major thanks to the wizards at Astute Graphics for saving me from actually having to draw a bg in the last panel here, I just copied the one from the next page (which itself was modified from the one at the beginning of the chapter) and hit it with their lovely halftone plugin 🙂

Aftercare(1)

Aftercare(1)

I was gonna spend a week doing some commissions but then I submitted this thing for an Ignatz and maybe I better, like, finish out this first arc before the judges look at it? That’d be nice.

There’s three more pages left before that happens!

Inside Number 452

Inside Number 452

Format change. Probably for good, there’s things I’m just not enjoying about the endless scroll of largely same-sized panels. It might be better for a world where most people read everything on phones but I just fundamentally like composing a full page. It took me a while to get the designs working for the foreground and background, but once I did it was a real pleasure to lay out a series of differently-sized panels and think about how the word balloons helped to guide the reader’s eye through the page.

It didn’t take too much fooling around to get character designs I was happy with for this sequence.

But the background took a while. Kin had certain stylistic vibes that I just was not really finding the vibe for.

I struggled with a few painterly looks based on the reference images they provided before finally going with my desire for a really minimalist look, and finding something we both liked.

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Also I need to edit the styles for individual pages, right now the actual comic is kind of missing from the single-page view of this! Go look at the full chapter view to see it in context.

The Expected Consequences

This action and dialogue may look a little familiar.

 

Leavetakings

Resolute

Surely this is a very safe and sensible thing Alba is about to do. Lunarians are nothing but sensible and pragmatic.

Epiphany

Sorry for the gap there for a while. I’ve been busy and there’s been some technical issues with the files for this project that’s been making it hard t really get in the groove on it. I’ve got these somewhat handled now.

A Short Course In Clownbinding

Alba has absolutely no idea what Zaffo just did to the Jobclown.

Lottery Tickets

1c: Breath

And here we go with the last part of Alba’s first job on Earth! Time for her to show why the Clowns thought she’d be good at this sort of thing.

Bailey’s Horizontal Promotion

Let’s All Sing The Alba Song

It’s Bailey!

Surely Bailey has this situation completely under control.

Meet Bailey

Meet Bailey! She’s normally pretty good at her job but it will become quite apparent that she has not been trained for this. Really nobody is.

3-1

This has been such a slow month. I was hoping to get this up several days ago. Edits and polish on this took a while though.

As usual, if you wanna punch Newsclown after reading his dialogue, we’re doing something right.

If you’re on my Patreon then you can see the roughs for this page and the next few pages over here. If you’re not on my Patreon and you have more surplus income than you know what to do with then maybe you want to help me pay my bills? Keep yourself and your loved ones afloat first though, some trans lady who posts weird comics on the Internet should not be your highest financial priority.

1-5

This is the end of part 1 of Alba’s first job! Each job will be three parts of about this size. We’ve got job 2 half way scripted and I’ve got to design some stuff for it; I haven’t set any kind of schedule for this comic yet so new stuff will start appearing when it is ready.