The first pages here were penciled, scanned then printed out so I could hand print the dialogue. After that you see my script. There were tinier page thumbnails, doodles of page layouts but I don't have them. These are large enough that I could actually draw my actors then wrote the script alongside.
Em was supposed to zip out of the H but I couldn't stage it and make it readable at the same time. I love Eisner's logos of The Spirit comics.
The campers have a more realistic sense of design than the fantasy characters. They could fit easily into Amber's world but Emmaryn's cartoonier face wouldn't really fit next to these guys. Although their actions are fairly cartoony, at least the running from Casper the Friendly Ghost action. I chose to skp details and get them off stage quickly.
Note that the Bigfoot characters never change expression. That's intentional and gives a double meaning to Mage's statement in the last panel of Page 2
Page 3 finally reveals the "reality" of this world. Bigfoot isn't real, it's just Mountain Trolls trying to scare treats out of campers. The trolls are caught red handed and are thankful that for once Mage is going to let them off easy. Once again, Mage's personality is set by the way others talk about him. Everything is going fine...until Mage won't let them take the s'mores.
"We want the s'mores, Mage." "We ain't leavin' without the s'mores." And Mage now has the excuse to kick some butt. Mage looks awful ugly and old here. He, like Emmaryn, went through many incarnations although not as drastic as my little Spryte. More next time with some readable script.
--Tad
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