Anatta

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Chapter One, Page 8

threeeyeswurm

on Jan. 1, 2009

Yay! An early update!

I wanted to make this page simple, and I wanted to make some of the face slightly "glitter", as if they are underwater.

Now that we've put in our initial installment, we're going to settle into our regular update schedule. I will post full colour, complete pages on Mondays and Fridays, before 5:00pm PST.

I hope you like the story so far. I find that narrative often starts out a little awkward, it's like meeting a new person for the first time and you're trying to find something in common. The best thing with character driven narrative is the reader grows with the characters and develops a relationship to them, to the point that we become invested in the decisions they make and the relationships they experience. I find that North American comics often lack this, especially the graphic novel genre, but that Japanese manga can do it quite well. The only exception I've experienced recently is a comic series called "Y: The Last Man", a fantastic endeavour into creating diverse characters with diverse relationships in an incredibly stressful situation.

I hope to work with our characters in a similar way, I already feel invested in Alex, but mostly because I've worked with her character for a long time. Now I want to open her up for our readers to develop a relationship with too.

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