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This is the blog of Garen Ewing, writer, illustrator and researcher, creator of the award-winning Adventures of Julius Chancer, and lover of classic film, history, humanism and karate.

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THE TEMPEST
Fri 22 Dec 2023

The other day I went into the archives (a dusty pile of A3 folders on top of one of my bookshelves) and retrieved the set containing the original artwork for my comic strip adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

This was published back in 1994, and I've been tinkering with the idea of a remastered edition recently, which would include new scans as I currently only have scans of some old A4 photocopies, which are not the best.

It's very different work from the style I've developed since then - I always say I used The Tempest to get rid of all my fiddly little lines! But, while the drawing is less professional, I still have a great fondness for it.

Amongst the art are a few pieces that were never published, like these early character studies (with Ariel as more strongly female). No definite decisions yet, but it's interesting to see the work again after so long.

posted 22.12.23 at 12:49 pm in Comics | permalink |

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