I wasn't sure I was ever going to finish this comic. In the middle of creating it, a wind storm knocked power out for days, leaving me unable to work on it in the evenings in the dwindling light of winter. Plus it is slightly more complex than most of my comics in that there were several portions of the page with separate shading techniques - The Tower card to look vaguely etched or woodcut, and the 'Natalie Wood' panel to look like a black and white movie.
On top of that was working through and sorting out my heartbroken feelings around the elections along with the guidance of hope I was receiving from my spirit guides, in order to organize them into words and illustrations that made sense and conveyed how I felt.
*Phew!*
My hope is that by conveying my feelings and experiences will resonate with others and help them to sort out their own feelings, or in the very least know that they are not alone.
I also feel like I cheated a bit on this page. I do usually go over my page on my laptop to edit out smudges, splotches, and ghost pencil lines that wouldn't quite erase all the way, but I pride myself on creating my comics the pencil and ink way (the brick and mortar of cartoonists) and try not to alter my drawings in any significant way electronically.
Enter my long-time antagonist, white ink. Through all the years I've been drawing my comics, I have yet to find a brand of pens whose white ink maintained its opacity and clarity when drawn on top of a space totally darkened by black ink. On this particular page the stars are completely electronically applied. I eased my conscience by the fact that I was basically just poking my drawing with white electronic dots instead from a white pen, and not actually drawing anything.
Anyway, thank you again for reading, and please follow my blog to remain updated on my latest comics!