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I revised my lesbian princess adventure comic based on expert advice from my typography tutor. Damn but she knows what she's talking about.



I guess i never really wrote about what my motivations were for making this comic. Basically I wanted to make a queer version of the woman-disguises-herself-as-a-knight-and-has-adventures-and-marries-the-prince trope.  I am a huge fan of that trope. When I was in fourth grade I read Tamora Pierce's Alanna series and it was like the most amazing thing ever, my little mind was totally blown. I have a friend who shares my feelings about this stuff and when we meet up we always watch princessy fairy tale movies together and have an awesome time. That was how I discovered Princess Fantaghiro, which is this amazing Italian miniseries about a kick-ass princess who pretends to be a prince in order to duel the prince of a neighboring kingdom for her country's freedom (and then they fall in love!). Mulan is of course another good example. However, it is a total shame that the kind of inherent queerness in this trope is always kind of negated in the end once the girl falls in love, gets married and (in a lot of cases) kind of settles down and doesn't have any more adventures. Also, if we're going to have something as gay as a butch cross-dressing princess why can't she just be gay? I am sure my young self would have loved a story like that, as would my current self. And that is basically what I tried to do with my comic. I left the ending kind of open in case I ever get the urge to do a sequel, because I have the feeling that once they show up at the castle the king is not gonna be so down with their plans, not to mention that Sigrid and Genevieve are still in the process of getting to know each other.

 
( Confused rambling with photos )I'm going to let this marinate overnight and make some decisions tomorrow.  

 

What a lovely guy!  His sexy feature is of course his voice.  
I was actually lucky enough to be at a concert where he was doing a signing afterwards and get his autograph.   The opera was kind of mind-blowing, and afterwards he was very nice about me mangling my french at him ;D  

 
My flat mates and I are working on a fundraiser calendar of studly men, each of us illustrating three months.  Screenprinting is the plan.  Since I have mounties on the brain, here is Callum Rennie as Ray Kowalski!  I always go for the slightly funny-looking ones.  

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My dad is arriving in London tomorrow oh boy oh boy!  I am actually ridiculously excited.  


*(The increased frequency of husky occurrences is purely coincidental.  The sweater is referenced from some lovely knit postcards I bought in Shetland.  That sure was an amazing trip.)

 It seems I spoke too soon.  I forgot to include a picture of the final outcome, the illustrated book.  



Yep, I embossed and debossed that cover.  Like a boss. 

( Look inside )
A while back I started watching Due South because I'd been hearing a lot of good stuff about it.  I skimmed through the early seasons and just finished season four--that has got to be the most perfect ending to a series ever.  Not to mention I am totally defenseless against Ray K's glasses.  I think I'm in love <3

(This one was probably my favorite out of the lot.)

Went to Christmas concert -- check
Sent out Christmas cards   -- check
Baked delicious cookies    -- check check
Worked on animation         --  errrrrr I'll get back to you on that.

 

(Alan Grey always gets locked out of doors and has to wait for someone to come and invite him back in.  Can you tell I have a satanic theory about this?)

Man, I decided to take a day off and just relax a little bit--worst decision ever.  Now I'm sitting here at my laptop hoping my work for tomorrow will magically go finish itself.  Had an interesting briefing today though about CD covers for contemporary composers (some of the composers came along and they were very sweet), I definitely want to go for this!  I am just having an abstract vs. concrete imagery debate inside my head.  Abstract lends itself awesomely to this kind of music, but a lot of times people can identify better with a concrete image.  Will probably submit both options and see what happens.