3 rough-pages of the Space Deer comic

50th issue!

Hi pal!

Today marks a milestone for Indie Notebook, this is the 50th issue! That’s nearly a year of weekly publishing! (give or take because a few of those were written before this was a weekly endeavour)

Thank you all so much for following my journey and reading my ramblings. It’s great to know there are people out there paying attention.

I caught a small flue (or something) this week and am still recovering. So I’m taking it a bit easy, I’'ll just show you something I’ve been saving for a day like this where I’m a bit under the weather.

Back in May I talked about making a comic about an old character of mine called Space Deer. Not long after that I wrote a script for it and not too long ago I began sketching out a few of the pages.

Space Deer comic sketches

These aren’t exactly the first three pages in the story, but aaalmost. I’m taking a lot of inspiration from my younger self, taking some of the things I liked about my old Space Deer comics.

As you might see Space Deer is a bit wonky and off-model, I’m not 100% sure of how I want to draw them yet. But that’s fine cause these are just rough sketches to know what I need to draw and how to tell the story. I’ll make it prettier later!

I don’t draw on this regularly at all (which I like), but when I do it’s very fulfilling. It feels like this is something I really need to do.

I’ll probably share more progress on this from time to time!

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Mini Notes

📝 Article - The Strongest Girl in The World

I didn’t realize Pippi Longstockings had such a strong connection to the history of Studio Ghibli and also influence on Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service. When I read about what could have been I feel like the world really missed out on the best interpretation of Pippi that there might have ever been (and the concept look amazing).

💭 Game - thoughts on Death Stranding

I’ve been playing this game on and off since the year it came out and I still haven’t completed it. I have such a love-hate relationship to it.
I LOVE that in theory it’s just a game about hiking and delivering mail.
I HATE that it’s a Kojima game. The story is so convoluted and messy, when my partner asks me what is going on in a cutscene I can’t really explain it.

I honestly just wish someone else had made this game instead and just made it a smaller, more human story about connecting people. The best parts are when I hike to moody music, place a ladder or climb on a rope.

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