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Got a Smoke? - a webcomic project

May 18th, 2009 by Adina

Hi folks,

My friend Veronika has tons of amazing stories of her travels. One of my favourites is a story of her adventure walking home late at night in Vilnius. She’s given me permission to turn this story into a comic over the next couple months.

I’ll post new comics every Sunday evening. Since this is my first attempt at making comics, I expect that it’ll be a bit rough around the edges, and you probably won’t get more than one frame a week. I’m excited about the first panel though! It took all afternoon, but I’m proud of it. Here it is:

Got a Smoke? cover

Now all I need is a tablet that works under Linux. Oh, and some more drawing skill ;) Ah well, the path tool in the Gimp is a lovely thing.

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4 Responses to “Got a Smoke? - a webcomic project”

  1. Vic Says:
    May 19th, 2009 at 10:33 am

    Oh that is wonderful! I love that story, and I look forward to seeing it drawn as a comic.

    I like your drawing style. Does the realistic streetscape mean that you were actually able to visit her while you were in Europe?

    I’m also glad you are posting stuff here again. Your site was falling off of my list of sites to check daily, so I’m glad you are back. I enjoy reading your comments, so I hope you will do some writing as well.

  2. Adina Says:
    May 19th, 2009 at 11:14 am

    Thanks Vic,

    I’m pretty excited about this project! I’m thinking that maybe this project will get me thinking about the blog more so I’ll maybe post other things more often.

    Regarding the streetscape: I was indeed able to visit Veronika while I was in Europe. I was there for around 2 weeks I think, while Maggie was there. However, the realistic streetscape is more due to my being able to use wikimedia commons and google image search :)

  3. Vic Says:
    May 19th, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    Re your visit: Oh, that’s right. I knew that.

  4. Steve Watson Says:
    May 20th, 2009 at 10:07 am

    Your site was falling off of my list of sites to check daily, so I’m glad you are back

    Vic, dude, three letters: RSS
    How else do you think I keep track of 50+ blogs, many of which post once a week or less?

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