Sooo, let’s see how much dialogue I can cram into one single page!!!?

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Speaking of Samona — Katariina Lillqvist (who has also directed the puppet animation “The Butterfly of the Urals“, about Finnish General Mannerheim and his secret Kyrgyz lover) has made a very interesting documentary about Roma in Finland, told mainly through the songs and memories of singer Hilja Grönfors.

The film-cooperative Camera Cagliostro has uploaded it in its entirety on YouTube with English subtitles:

Part 1 * Part 2 * Part 3 * Part 4

Update notice, March 21st: Probably no new page this week, but two next week. (-_-;) I pulled an all-nighter yesterday to finish a job (and all in vain, since apparently I’m the only one at work who would pull all- or even part-nighters to hold deadlines — so I could just as well have taken it more easy … grmbll …). Today I awoke to broken Internet, and once I finally got it running again I was bombarded with work from another client. Guess I just didn’t have any days off this week … Whine, whine, whine.
… Swine? V`(oo)´V

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Maybe they would be like the heron and the crane in the Russian folk tale (and also the animation by Yuri Norstein, which you can watch here – or in poor quality but with English subtitles here). In fact, Willie’s last name comes from čapek, which is Czech for heron …

Unlike other parts of the UK and also most other parts of the entire world, in Scotland the marriageable age is 16 with no need for parental consent or court permission.

Whee, another make out scene … :3
This might be the last one, though (in the entire prequel ;_;). But it looks like it could be up to ten pages … V`(oo)´;V Well, probably less, since I always manage to prune the script as I draw it out.

Speaking of that, the problems I was having with the script for the previous page weren’t about what should happen, but what I should cut out from all the stuff that keeps pouring into my brain. If I’d make a director’s cut of Driftwood, it would probably involve something like 5,000 pages of Willie and Aeron talking with each other (that’s what they do inside my head ALL THE TIME). :3 But in the feature length I guess it’ll have to suffice that it’s mostly implied that they talk a lot with each other …

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Sorry about some down time today – I broke ComicPress, but eventually figured out how to fix it again. For future reference, the comicpress-config backups are in the folder wp-content/themes/comicpress-gn/ … V`(oo)´V

This is last week’s page, and unless I’m too lame, this week’s will be up tomorrow, on schedule … V`(oo)´;V
I’m having some pressing deadlines these weeks, but also I have this annoying oblomovschina going on … besides all the trouble I had with the script for this page … V;(oo);V *I SUCK*

Anyway. Awww, male bondage bonding between Seraphine and Aeron.

Update notice, February 28th: The next page will be late (not sure when it will be ready), because I’m having trouble with the script, and a lot of stress in my life … ;__;

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Err … Yesterday, as I was reading (the infamous DDR translation of) Cours de Navigation des Glénans, I had a severe “WELL, DUUUUH” moment.

I realised that having the wheel in a sheltered place like this is not good at all! It should actually be in an exposed place on the stern deck. That’s because the helmsman can then easily tell the direction of the wind with his ears. The wind direction is the most important thing ever to keep track of when you sail, and you do this most easily by listening to the sound it makes.

If the wheel is in a sheltered place like this, the wind is diffused by the surrounding structures, so I suppose you’d have to rely on watching the sails, the sea, etc. to tell the wind direction, and that’s obviously nowhere near as good as your ears. This seems so self-evident to me now that I can barely believe I never thought of that before.

I don’t know where I got the idea to put the wheel in this place. I’m pretty sure that no real sailing ships have ever had it like this. Oh well, that’s what happens when you start drawing a comic with a topic you don’t really know anything about at the tender age of 15 … V^(oo)^;V

I suppose it’s something to consider, eventually, for the next part of the story – how much “creative licence” I should allow myself in correcting things like this. (I guess I could also redraw all the scenes with the wheel in this part of the story … V`(oo)´V)