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Show, don’t tell: a page from the book of Heathen City 3

Show, don’t tell: a page from the book of Heathen City 3

Some among you might remember the awesome Zooshwolf who contributed the Tiber Ferrum arc to HC2. He’s back in HC3, with an ambitious and thrillingly-paced story in HC3. I love writing action. I love loading pages with heaps of little events hidden among the big ones, compounding revelations and challenging the reader to piece their meaning together. So...

The Little People

The Little People

As a rule of thumb, I feel that quality cinema, television, literature and comics distinguish themselves by ensuring that even the little people are engaging, however brief. They all have well-thought-out lives and activities, whether these actually make it to the screen or to the page or not. You feel that it’s there. When we first started distributing...

Charha • “More Sparta, easy on the bleem?”

Charha    •    “More Sparta, easy on the bleem?”

Tucked away in the mysterious depths of Finland, Charha has something of the witch about her. While collaborating with Fel on HC Vol. 3, expected to be complete in 2010, she drove the development of HC’s rather unusual artistic nomenclature. In dividing the duties and tasks involved in the coloring process on this particular piece, she made the following...

Fel • “Trust me, this’ll pay off in the end.”

Fel    •    “Trust me, this’ll pay off in the end.”

Fel is well-known as an artist in his own right, and had previously colored some pages in HC Vol. 1. For the second book he collaborated with Krahnos, the artist drawing the romantic comedy story “La Lune Trop Pâle”, contributing not only his coloring skills, but also his expedient and effective document management techniques. Rigorously disciplined...