Sneak Peek of Green, Gold and Black
Back in August, I shared some character concepts for one of the stories to be included in Bedside Press's Gothic Tales of Haunted Love anthology which is slated to come out in early 2018. Now that I have some time, I thought I'd share some of the images from the pages of Green, Gold and Black, written by my friend, Cherelle Higgins, that doesn't give too much away. The story is set in 1728 Jamaica when, on the eve of a slave uprising, a young house slave tries to protect her newborn infant from a pair of vengeful ghosts.
I wish I could share more because I feel I really pushed myself on this one, armed with some of the knowledge I've been slowly picking up from the Schoolism courses (I can't praise them enough), and also from years back at the Toronto Cartoonists Workshop where I learned how to break a script down into panel form from the wonderful Leonard Kirk! I didn't think I'd ever need to use that but while Cherelle has always written beautiful prose she didn't have any experience writing in comic form. With Cherelle and Bedside Press's feedback I separated the text into panels as how I thought might best work with the amount of pages we were allocated. I even surprised myself by doing all the lettering and hand-drawn text bubbles. On my previous two comics, I was lucky to have my husband letter for me in Illustrator. He really enjoys this whole process but this time he had his own deadlines and couldn't assist. Having said that, he did volunteer to design a simple title for the story.
Below is the first page followed by a slideshow of some progression and early character sketches. I hope you enjoy!
