{"id":1426,"date":"2011-08-28T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kommiekomiks.com\/driftwood\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2023-02-04T21:19:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:19:15","slug":"driftwood-9-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"Driftwood 9 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, guess what? The end of July marked the 15th anniversary of Driftwood! (I didn&#8217;t mention anything about it at the end of July, because I mistakenly thought its &#8220;birthday&#8221; was now at the end of August &#8230; V`(oo)\u00b4V)<\/p>\n<p>I drew the first page at some point near the end of my summer vacation 1996, when I was 15 years old. (The exact date has sadly not been recorded.)<br \/>\nSo this means I have been working on this comic for the most part of my life! V^(oo)^V<\/p>\n<p>What is even more disturbing is that by the time I finish it, or when it&#8217;s finally printed as a &#8220;real book&#8221;, it will be about 16 years old. Just like its protagonist.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking at my diary from 1996 in order to try and find the exact date for when I started to draw it, but with no success.\u00a0However, I did find one quite shocking\u00a0note. Pretty much\u00a0<em>exactly nine months<\/em> before the end of July 1996, I mentioned the dream that was the initial inspiration for Driftwood:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>October 24th, 1995<br \/>\n[&#8230;] By the way, the other day I had a dream in the spirit of [Loisel&#8217;s comic book adaptation of] Peter Pan &#8212; a ship came to take me away from this world and to new adventures. Unfortunately I woke up before I had gotten aboard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During the following nine months, my ideas for the story grew and warped, and I made about fifty million drafts for the beginning. Then one day I guess I had a halfway decent idea for the opening scene, and started to draw it &#8220;for real&#8221;, in A3 format and both pencils and ink. It was the first comic ever that I actually inked, and as far as I remember the first that I drew in double the print size (or even planned to print, for that matter). And since then I&#8217;ve just continued, page after page.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I&#8217;ve made the final decision to not redraw the first few chapters. Reasons:<br \/>\n&#8211; That would take a lot of of time, and I&#8217;m already 30, dammit!<br \/>\n&#8211; This is only a prequel, and I&#8217;m sure everyone wants to read the adventures that follow just as badly as I want to draw them. :3<br \/>\n&#8211; It&#8217;s a story about growing up, and the way the style matures is part of the story. (Yay, best excuse ever!!!!!! V^(oo)^V)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll still leave the options in the poll to the left, to mock anyone who would vote for them.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and today was <a href=\"http:\/\/readcomicsinpublic.com\/\">Read Comics in Public Day<\/a>. Yay!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reading comics in public! by Turukhtan, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/turukhtan\/6089451170\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6206\/6089451170_c547dc01a4.jpg\" alt=\"Reading comics in public!\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, guess what? The end of July marked the 15th anniversary of Driftwood! (I didn&#8217;t mention anything about it at the end of July, because I mistakenly thought its &#8220;birthday&#8221; was now at the end of August &#8230; V`(oo)\u00b4V) I drew the first page at some point near the end of my summer vacation 1996, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftwood-chapter-9","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}