- Surprise! A new page in less than a week. This is definitely the fastest I’ve ever turned out a page. This is partly because of my switch to the Pentel Brush Pen last week but also because this is a fairly simple page. In fact I really got pretty lazy on panels 2 and 3. I should have done a background on at least ONE of those panels. Still, even though this might not be the best page I’ve ever done, it’s promising that I might be working at a quicker pace now.

- I’ve always thought that if I were to go back and start over I would do every page in a six panel grid like this one or at least a consistent layout for each page (occasionally going with double wide panels for effect). I don’t know if I’ve exactly wrapped my head around why this appeals to me though. I feel like it would work well with this story and it would streamline my process a little but I’m sure I would get frustrated with it too.

- I rewrote the dialogue on this page a few times over before settling on it and coming to the realization that I need to button down my dialogue earlier on. Though I’ve plotted out the whole story I only script a few pages ahead of myself – usually trying to at least write entire scenes before doing final drawings – but I always tend to rewrite the dialogue in the final lettering stage and because I know I’m going to do that I don’t plan my drawings the space I’ll need for the word balloons. This is creating a stilted feeling between the words and the pictures here and there and that’s what I wrestled with on this page. I need to correct the way I script going forward.