#sometimes trying to read archived scans of newspapers from the 1940s is. something that can be such a headache inducing ordeal

[katabay]

this was a kind of test comic I did months ago that's been sitting my my drafts! and now I'm freeing it

the story (historical fiction, unrestrained violence against occupation forces, cultural trauma-horror, gritty folk heroes, some real fucked up basements) requires a lot of pretty heavy duty research that's probably gonna take awhile to finish doing, but it also is pretty action heavy. hopefully. in my heart, it's action heavy, which is also a whole visual language to learn and style to figure out and I've mostly been a melodrama genre kind of artist.

this one was drawn pretty early in the journey! lots of scribbling while I tried to pin down the vibe I was imagining and also just running through every monoline pen I've ever downloaded to see what clicked lmao