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Yesterday I finished working on the ad. Everything is now on its way to the lab for the 35mm copies to be made. Vimeo upload to be expected soon!

Sons of Sorrow by Ryan Licata
They rode into town at sundown, wild boys on black horses. Sorrow galloped a head of them on a white horse with no saddle. She wore her hair like a squaw. It wasn’t enough that they called her a witch, some dared say that her sons were her lovers too, fathered by the devil all. They drank spirits at the bar and sang their songs. The women locked-up their daughters, who couldn’t help feeling hot with the windows shut-up so. And the men stayed in the bar all night long until Sorrow and her sons rode back east at dawn.

Il ragazzo con lo zaino a razzo (di Andrea Campanella), parte 2/2
In lontananza si vedono i primi manifestanti. “Andiamo” dice Simone a Francy. Lei è titubante, lui la guarda interrogativo. “Ho paura” dice Francy, “Non ho mai volato con quei così”. Simone le prende le mani e dice: “tesoro dobbiamo andare per molti motivi. Il primo è che qui tra poco ci sarà l’inferno, lo sai meglio di me. Secondo è che devi imparare a volare ed è meglio che lo fai con me. Il terzo è che a mio padre hanno già spaccato la testa ed io voglio volare lontano da qui, molto lontano e voglio farlo con te”. Francy ha le lacrime agli occhi, abbraccia il suo eroe e schizzano verso il blu.

Notes

Sons of sorrow is a particularly intense story to me, this would make a great start for a full length comic or novel. When working on the illustration for this, I first started with a classic western picture with horses and all. Later I resorted to this one, where you don’t know exactly where they are. They might be just about to enter the saloon, or riding through the desert on the back of a horse. For the second story I took a bit of inspiration from the characters in Tekkonkinkreet, a great movie you should see if you haven’t done so alredy.

My short comic Pixelface has just been awarded a Daily Deviation on deviantart.com. Yeah!

“*gasteropod takes pixelation to creepy new heights with his Pixelface comic comic. I particularly enjoy the clever transition of the later panels into pixels as the character transforms, and how everything is actually framed within the last panel.” (Suggested by `Iscariot-Priest and Featured by ^Cedarseed)

Just as a reminder, I had made Pixelface as a promotional comic for the Bolzano Comics Festival and the NoWords contest.

First of all I want to apologize for not having posted any 100 word stories yet. Apart from being pretty busy with this ad thing for helios, I even got sick. Anyway, since nobody complained about it I think I can make you wait until next week.

In the meantime here’s a little preview from the (work in progress) ad I was talking about above.

I’m terribly sorry, I have no 100 word stories for today, beacuse it’s been a terrible week. I will have some for tomorrow, I hope… in the meantime, check this:

Pixelface è finalmente online, cliccate sulla copertina per leggere la storia, o andare qui al post su Bolzanocomics.it

My Mother crocheting something.

B4 Republic is how we used to call the flat where I lived until some time ago. This is the flat’s main entrance.