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Gentle reader,

Here I am again with a new page of my wildly popular comic, The Darkest Hour. Universally acclaimed on Twitter (1 like), Facebook (2 likes), Tumblr (8 likes) and Instagram (7 likes), this epic, crafted with much sweat, tears, but even more love is bound to assure me a careless old age living off the profits.

...I realised that the last time I posted here, I was on page 86, so - that's a few pages ago! I'll just link you back to The Darkest Hour p. 87 in case you were waiting for that - and which just happens to be baby Arthur being born!

Page 102, incidentally, used to be page 85. The comic has expanded quite a bit in the redrawing, but I hope I'm done now and can just continue to the end with the pages as they were planned.

Current Mood: tired

Sooo... This year, I didn't take a break from the comic during the summer months. I kept on posting, but I didn't get round to posting it here as well. I have the coronavirus to thank for the possibility to draw a page every week. The fact that I didn't have to commute, but could work from home, really changed my comic-making life. That said, it still wasn't easy, and more than once I have finished a page at 2 a.m. on a Thursday, my posting day.

I'm well on my way to expanding TDH by some 10 pages... Page 86 used to be page 80. That means the entire story is likely to come in at around 140 pages. New pages have been added because I felt some of the transitions were too abrupt, or because the draft pages had too much crammed into them. I've also made some alterations here and there because I felt that in my original draft, I hadn't expressed some of the ideas as well as I could have. I'm thinking of putting up a comparison on my Gawaincomic blog later on, even if it's just for myself.

...Coming to think of it, with some 50 pages still to go, if I keep managing a page a week, TDH should be all done around this time next year.

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Current Mood: tired

I've been religiously making teaser pictures for every new page with the intention of posting them here, but I'm not exactly doing a great job of it. I apologise for my lack of replies, too - especially because your comments mean a lot to me. People close to me sometimes tell me to ease down on the self-imposed deadlines for things like the comic, which doesn't make any money and isn't exactly a huge hit. But though it brings its own frustrations, making this comic is something of a consolation as compared to my often thankless job. (Never become a professional writer, kids: everyone thinks they write better than you.)

I'm getting to a point where it's beginning to look as if the early pages were inked by someone else. This bugs me very much, but, um, I can't really afford to start all over again. I mean, I really would like to get to Gawain some day and, you know, maybe do some Green Knight and Loathly Lady and stuff. And I'm positively *aching* for the Castle of Wonder, that Ygraine Payoff in, oh, 2000 pages or so.

...Yeah. Well, if I can keep up this 'a page a week' rhythm, I may not go on Summer hiatus this year. If I manage it, Arthur could be born in September...

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Today was not a good day. Nothing serious, mind - I am healthy, I can do every bit of my job from home, I'm actually really lucky in these times of corona. But I woke in a bad mood and nothing that happened during my workday did anything to dispell the feeling. In fact the opposite was true. I felt unhappy, unappreciated and useless. It didn't help that I'm really struggling to keep up with my weekly publishing schedule, which makes me feel like a loser, to be honest. Now - both of these problems can be at least partly resolved with a few holidays, so thank goodness there are some of those coming on...

Every night of this week, I've been trying to draw page 64 and I really couldn't capture what I wanted. I was fully prepared to actually let a Thursday go by without a page. But my dark mood brought me this image, which was very satisfying to draw (despite being so sad) and also saved me from an abrupt transition. That difficult page 64 has now become page 65 and I'll have Easter Monday to ponder it.

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In other news, I'm participating in the Snape Big Bang over at tumblr and it's taken me ages to figure out what I was going to do, but I've got it now and I'm a little bit stoked. Now all I have to do is actually get it done on time...

I still haven't managed to make a new buffer of pages, so for weeks now I've been scrambling to post a page every Thursday XD. So I don't get round to posting links here every week, but sometimes I make time :p. We are six pages behind again...

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If you want to hear me talk and giggle my way through an interview about my Gawain comic, the Arthurian Mythia podcast episode with me is out :).

Well by gum, I dropped the ball for a while there...

Truth is, ever since my return to work after my holiday, things have been incredibly busy. And there were my

hoggywartyxmas and

snapecase deadlines, too... Yes, I kind of forgot about posting new pages here. So now you get 4 in one go :P.

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I don't think I ever mentioned it here, but I have a Ko-fi page, in case people want to support the comic by buying me a coffee (I consume loads of those)... There is a gallery with my complete set of Inktober 2019 images, which I can't help mentioning because I'm still proud of finally having completed an entire Inktober ;-).

Morgause and Morgana find their mother worried and distracted on page 43...

Morgause and Morgana tugging at their mother's arms

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The Darkest Hour p. 41 is live! This week: the risks that come with fairy children...

Morgana on top of a tower, flapping her arms as if to fly

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In other news, I'm doing Inktober over on Instagram (ms_sigune) and Twitter (Gawaincomic). I'm using my holidays to draw as much comic as possible... And I need to get a move on, because I have signed up for

hoggywartyxmas and

snapecase too!

Not to mention that it's Socktober so I'm knitting socks, and the gift season is getting nearer so I have some gift knitting to get done :p.

Current Mood: chipper

Page 40 of The Darkest Hour is live! Find out what horrified Ygraine on page 39 ;-)...

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Page 39 is live! Stuff is happening at Dun Tagyll while Uther and Gorlois fight each other...

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I started to redraw my comic in my second year of evening classes at art school. As my final project, at the end of the fourth year, I made a little booklet with what I had so far. It has been a rather sobering experience, because my booklet counted ... 31 comics pages. In three years. Of course I did participate in other class projects and I have a fulltime job, but still, you can't say that it has been advancing very well. One of the reasons was that I had trouble with my (normally trusty) Pentel brush pen. It just bled on the paper, which meant I had to work extra slowly and carefully. It took me a while to realise that the problem was in the pen and not in my penmanship :p. On page 28 I finally switched to another Pentel brush pen - the one at the bottom of the picture below. That has made my life a lot easier, and inking has become fun again.

Back when I started drawing The Darkest Hour, I was convinced that this story would be told quickly in some 20 pages. It turned out to be more like 120 pages. And in the redrawing, it's again expanding... In the old pages, like the one in the middle of the photo, everything was so sketchy that I could fit three rows of panels and six speech bubbles into a page. In the neat version, that's just not possible anymore. Sometimes I also added bits here or there to correct the pacing or clarify something. So whereas the old page below was p. 26, the new page below is p. 33. And they look quite, quite different :).

If you are looking to read some Gawain comic, the story is currently being posted on gawaincomic.com, with a new page every Thursday.

You may remember that while I was finishing my booklet for school, I put out some feelers to gauge interest in a printed version. If I haven't pursued it further, it's because I came to the conclusion that there is really little sense in printing The Darkest Hour in multiple smallparts. We'll have to talk again when Ygraine's tale is complete and there is, you know, an entire tale. At about 130 pages it will still be a story that you finish in 15 minutes, at about 1/3 of the size of a manga, so...

Current Mood: tired

Greetings of the season from Gorlois and Ygraine

Hello hello! No, I haven't been around for ages, but yes, I am still alive! Also, everyone who in the past few years has offered their name and address for my Christmas card list may be expecting a Christmas card — though, mind you, the cards will be horribly late again. They went in the mail on 23 December, meaning they only started their journey towards you on 24 December -_-. Once again, I am terribly sorry.

So, you may ask, are we getting 2012's Christmas card, then? Well, no. The thing is, this year's Christmas card is also my hoggywartyxmas entry, so I can't post it here until the reveals are up... (I'm also participating in snapecase again this year, so you are welcome to keep an eye on that if you want to see more of my Snape stuff :D...)

BUT I have another excellent reason for digging up this oldie with Gorlois and Ygraine again. I've completely forgotten to mention it hereabouts, but ... my webcomic site is live and the comic is currently being posted on it! New pages go up on Thursdays. The address is gawaincomic.com and the first page is here. I've just now added a thingy where you can get to the next page by clicking on the current one - I hope that's useful... At this moment, 7 pages are up, so you'll read through that rather quickly, but you, know, if you're interested in my Arthurian comic, keep an eye on that space :-).

All my Gawain comic stuff on LJ was hosted on Photobucket, so unfortunately I lost everything and all links were broken when Photobucket decided to cease its hosting services. My Wordpress site will now be the home of the remastered version. Wish me luck! (I'll need it because I'm not a web wizard...)

Anyway - happy holidays to you! I'll be back with Hoggywarty recs and stuff ;-)...

The Darkest Hour cover

Designed three years ago, finally inked and coloured (...well...): my Darkest Hour cover.

I'm going to have to cut The Darkest Hour in 4 in order to fit it in these 'informal' comics. Oh my goodness — I was so happy to have one good cover, now I'll have to figure out four! :D

The Darkest Hour cover

Designed three years ago, finally inked and coloured (...well...): my Darkest Hour cover.

I'm going to have to cut The Darkest Hour in 4 in order to fit it in these 'informal' comics. Oh my goodness — I was so happy to have one good cover, now I'll have to figure out four! :D

Hello! I have been a bit quiet because of stuff, but also because I am nearing the end of my fourth year of evening art school, and I am working hard to finish my project. That project is 30 pages of redrawn Gawain comic - that is to say: it’s the first 30 pages of The Darkest Hour, the story of Ygraine and Uther (full length: about 130 pages).

The idea has always been to publish the comic as a webcomic on its own site - that is still what I intend to do. But for my end-of-year project, I’m going to have a few copies of the first part printed. In order to have an idea of how many copies I’d need, thought I’d ask around who would like to own one.

The minimum number of copies is 25. I generally assume that not a lot of people are interested in my stuff, but suppose there are 30 all over the world and I have only 25 copies, well, I’d feel a bit bad about that. So - please let me know if you would like a copy (here, or send me an e-mail to gawaincomic at gmail).

You would get: a 36 page booklet with 30 pages of comic and a few sketch pages. The comic is drawn in black, white and grey. A6 (postcard-sized and cute!) or A5 (…bigger?) - I haven’t decided yet; soft cover. It’s a really informal little affair, no ISBN-number or anything.

I’d ask of you: the print cost + shipping. The printing would cost a maximum of 4€ per comic (£3.5 or $4.5). Shipping will depend on where you are, but will certainly cost more than the comic itself :/.

Interested? Please let me know!

Hello! I have been a bit quiet because of stuff, but also because I am nearing the end of my fourth year of evening art school, and I am working hard to finish my project. That project is 30 pages of redrawn Gawain comic - that is to say: it’s the first 30 pages of The Darkest Hour, the story of Ygraine and Uther (full length: about 130 pages).

Interested? Please let me know!

I don't want to count the hours I spent working on this small picture! It measures 13 x 21 cm and I started it on the Thalys to Paris. (I have a little something with trains and drawing, don't I?) All that remains from what I drew on the train is the nose, the hand and the rose. All else was reworked again and again. All that to end up with such a flawed drawing... But somehow I like its flaws. They give Ygraine something a little bit otherworldly, which is quite appropriate to the character.

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Current Mood: accomplished

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Gawain: The Darkest Hour p. 102
Gawain: the Darkest Hour pp. 72-86
Gawain: The Darkest Hour p. 65-71
The Darkest Hour pp. 60-64
The Darkest Hour p. 54-59
Gawain: The Darkest Hour pp. 45-48
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Gawain: The Darkest Hour p. 102

Gawain: the Darkest Hour pp. 72-86

Gawain: The Darkest Hour p. 65-71

The Darkest Hour pp. 60-64

The Darkest Hour p. 54-59

Gawain: The Darkest Hour pp. 45-48

Gawain: The Darkest Hour p. 43

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