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Based on a true story. In grade 11 I was in a rather disorganized computing class just like this one, where the teacher hardly ever seemed to be around - giving a group of my fellow students a license to have loud, irritating and offensive conversations much like this. (Embarrassingly, it also gave ME a license to waste plenty of time online, mostly on Audiogalaxy and the Pitchforkmedia forums - aka "Pitchforkmedia Smackdown" or "PFMS" - that's what Jeremy's reading in the first panel. Ha ha. ha. I still came out with a 90-something in the class.) No one else in the class seemed to care about this. Maybe that says more about me and my inability to ignore static...

Anyhow, one day I made the mistake of telling these people to shut up, and then they began bullying me. For the remainder of the term I sat in the cornermost cubicle in the classroom, as Jeremy is doing here, just to hide from them.

I've opened up the comments field to anonymous users, which means any & all visitors to my blog can now comment! Try it out, won't you please? ;p

I'm also still trying to figure out how to install WordPress & its respective webcomic updater plugin to my website, but until then, I've added "next" & "previous" links to each blog post here, which should make the comic much easier to read. Enjoy!!

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Hi-ho, folks! I'm going to be away for a couple of weeks - tomorrow I'm traveling from Bournemouth up to Scotland with my auntie. It's going to be amazing and I'm really excited. I thought it would be best to post some new pages before I leave!

Below those we have a business card I just made for myself, rehashing one of the drawings from page 31. Since I work in so many different styles, I had trouble finding an image that best represented what I do - I thought this worked quite nicely. Now I just need to figure out how to get rid of 250 of the blasted things! ;p

Chapter 2 Splash Page

The splash page to chapter 2, which I coloured out of extreme boredom. It's supposed to be about lacking identity, and feeling disconnected...or maybe I just really like drawing fake collages. The background is loosely based on a schematic diagram of a CB radio.

I'm feeling really discouraged lately, since nobody seems to be reading this comic...I know I need to make a proper website for it, since it's kinda difficult to read the way it's set up on this blog - despite my best efforts. I don't want to put you off by talking about this too much, though...I gotta stay positive...

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I...I CAN'T hold off any longer. Here are some new pages.


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PLEASE tell me if these make any sense at all, any feedback is seriously appreciated!!

close, up, over

More "visual music." I'm not sure how or why "twirling ribbons" signify music, they were probably just really easy to draw. :p

I really think I should just set aside a day to colour stuff I've already drawn. Just for the hell of it.

Also HEY GUYS GO AND LISTEN TO THIS RIGHT NOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRTzuutL6mA&feature=related

Synesthesia

I'm trying to represent music visually in this next sequence and it's proving rather difficult. I had a look at the Bach Toccata & Fugue in D Minor segment of Disney's Fantasia again to see if that would inspire me, but no such luck. So I drew this based on an old sketch from a couple years ago and it seems to be closer to what I wanted. Whether or not it accurately represents sound is another matter. At least it looks nice. :p

The biggest problem is I'm trying to draw this as black & white lineart, but to be a better representation of synesthesia, it would work much better in colour. I think I'll do a black & white and a coloured version and decide later which one to use.

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What, you've never found subliminal messages in your cereal before? ;p

This is the end of chapter 1, by the way...it might be quite a while before I add any new pages. Still working the kinks out of chapter 2's (partial) script. I PROMISE you I will do it though, no matter how long it takes. I'll post some more sketches later on to prove I'm still working.
Here's the revised splash page that I forgot to upload earlier.