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In case you guys haven't noticed, you're pretty much the test audience for everything I make. You see things before anyone else (family included) does. So here's my latest project. It's kind of an avante-garde graphic novel about friendship, life, and tradition. It's called And He Brake Tradition. You can see why I call it avante-garde by looking at the first page I just finished:

Now the question I have for you is: can you stand several pages in a row of that, followed by several more pages, just with a change of scene? For about a hundred pages of events? Answer honestly, now.

After several pages of that without even a single momentary change of view, and I'd honestly start wondering why you didn't just do that as prose. I think it might work if you're careful and crafty enough with it, though.

I thought that it looked copy-pasted...

After several pages of that without even a single momentary change of view, and I'd honestly start wondering why you didn't just do that as prose. I think it might work if you're careful and crafty enough with it, though.

I'd have to agree. You may as well write a novella and provide the occasional illustration.

I actually have a number of reason why it I would not want to do it as a prose novel. Here they are:
1. I hate writing prose.
2. It wouldn't be a novel anyway, it would be a play, with nothing but dialog and the occasional stage direction. But that's boring and I'm not interested in theater.
3. The whole idea was created specifically for this graphic novel concept. I want the repetitive feeling of static motion and timelessness you get from having pages of similar panels.

Though I want to emphasize that I don't plan on having more than three pages without a change of some kind.

I'll be posting more pages as I make them. Maybe you'll warm to the idea. (Or not.)

I can't say if I'll like it or not until I see a bit more of it....

I'll be posting more pages as I make them. Maybe you'll warm to the idea. (Or not.)

Hm... we'll see...

Here's the next four pages. Helpful hint: when these guys talk about "tradition" they refer to a strange hodgepodge of customs, instincts, and general knowledge.









Oh, and I do intend to show character's faces eventually. It's an artistic device.

Are they lemmings?

Do they mindlessly jump off cliffs to their deaths!!!?!?!?!?

Are they lemmings?

Do they mindlessly jump off cliffs to their deaths!!!?!?!?!?

That's just a myth, I understand. And they're groundhogs (or prairie dogs-they look very similar.)

Now I've got that lemmings song stuck in my head.

Are they lemmings?

Do they mindlessly jump off cliffs to their deaths!!!?!?!?!?

Disney myth! DISNEY MYTH!! Disney produced a documentary of winter wonderlandy creatures including the lemming and then threw the lemmings off of a cliff and filmed it because they wouldn't jump on their own!

NOW YOU KNOW! AND KNOWING IS SOME PERCENTAGE OF THE BATTLE!

KNOWING IS SOME PERCENTAGE OF THE BATTLE!

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Are you sassing me, boy?

Thanks for the cookies, I will be gone now, yes? *swish*