The End!

I’ve printed up 30 copies of Sam and the Prophecy of the Allrus, half of which I’m giving to comrades from the Montpelier 24 Hour Comics Day event, and the rest of which I’m selling. I’ll post a purchase link soon.

Those last 2 panels are from the viewpoint of giant-size Griselda and Zedrik respectively, looking down at the other 2 characters (this was unclear to some who read the originals).

I drew this page at 4:25 PM when I started feeling stuck. I knew I wanted this scene in the story and that it would be fun to draw, so I skipped ahead to here. When I got stuck advancing this part of the story, I went back to the other part, and vice versa.

Despite looking at the comic multiple times, I didn’t notice I’d forgotten to draw the Belt of Gigantous in the last two panels here until days later. Annoying!

Finished at 7:23 AM. Yep, a 23-minute page. I don’t think I did anything different when I scanned this one, so I don’t know why it looks more pixelated than the others.

Completed at 7:00 AM.

Finished at 5:59 AM.

An abdominal cruncher isn’t a real wrestling move! Sam may be doomed.

Finished this one at 1:34 AM, exactly an hour after the previous page.

My roommates at SPX this year liked to have the TV on, and at some point they turned to wrestling, which I hadn’t seen in years. It, uh…made quite an impression.

Finished this one at 12:34 pm, after working on the other section for a while, walking around the library, and going out for some food. After that I set up shop on the main floor instead of the basement, where I’d started.

I’d originally wanted to show the characters going after these items as a group, but realized I didn’t have enough space and condensed it down to what you see here (not that I had it planned out in any detail).

I completed this page at 8:30 PM. Most pages probably took me around 45 minutes to actually draw, but then there was planning, deciding, eating, taking breaks, and just plain goofing off, which is where some of the longer spans between page completions came from.

I completed this page at 6:54 PM, which sounds like I was falling way behind, but that’s because I started drawing pages out of sequence. Thanks to that bit of planning I did up front, when I started feeling bogged down I could skip around. This also helped me make sure the most important parts of the story made it in, since I didn’t have the best sense of how much space things would take up. I basically ended up bouncing between two moving points in the story until they met up, then drew the end pages.

Anyway, after the last page, I finished the next one I drew at 4:25 PM, which means I was actually closing the gap between where I was and where I needed to be.

Finished at 3:39 PM.

On Monday I’ll post the next page of “Spring in Headville”, then Tuesday we’ll get back to this story and maybe see what Sam’s destiny looks like.

Page 3, finished at 2:51 PM. I wanted the main character to look a little like Harry Potter, but unfortunately he looks like Young Cartoon Me. The glasses and haircut are different from mine, but I guess people with glasses all look alike – especially when you draw them in a simple cartooning style.

I finished page 2 at 2:11 PM. As you’ve probably guessed already, I completed the whole comic without any penciling.