Holy cow. I'm publishing a book.
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THE SHATTERED REFLECTION
and
THE DANCING SHADOWS
On a cold late-September day in 2001, I found myself without a job and without a house for the first time in about five years. I’d lost my job in June, and in the middle of the dot-com burst, just finding a place that wasn’t throwing techs out by the bucket was a miracle.
I ended up moving back home with my parents for short while, and I was feeling mighty crummy. That’s when I saw online that the latest reincarnation of the local anime club was having a showing that weekend. Heck, it was free, and I wanted to see whatever became of the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization folks ten years later.
I not only got to see some old friends, a little grayer and with a few more wrinkles than I remembered, but also got to see some new anime, I’d never seen before. They screen the entire series of “Risky Safety” about an angel and demon visitng a young girl - one providing her support in a hard time, the other taunting her. The second series was “Tenshi ni Narumon” (or “I’m Gonna be an Angel”), about a young girl named Noelle, an an angel in training.
Maybe it had something to do with watching those two series, and then going home to an office full of porcelan angels (Mom loves those), but this story about a woman who believed she was an angel began to burble up in my head, and quickly formed up. Within the week, I had most of the basic story mapped out, and within a month, I was drawing the comics you see on these pages between phone calls looking for work, and the wee hours of the morning.
Andrea’s melacholy, as well as her apartment, echoed my own. I’d just lost my job, my apartment and my love, and I channeled a lot of that hurt into the life of the twenty-seven year old Andrea, framing the bigger story she was about to tell us.
The first story is a two part piece, about how the seven year old Andrea met her first angels, and the temptation of the Shadows shortly afterwards. The Angels are based on the Seraphs of the old Battlestar Galactica series, who I thought were beautiful, and very non-traditional. The Shadows are based on things I imagined seeing out of the corner of my eye as a child. I found out later that I wasn’t the only one to see them....
The seven year old Andrea actually exists in a young girl (now a young woman) named Hanna in Central Pennsylvania. Might want to remember that name, it becomes important pretty soon. As soon as the story called for a seven year old version of Andrea, I knew Hanna would be the basis for her.
I'm gonna need some proofreaders pretty soon.... :)
THE SHATTERED REFLECTION
and
THE DANCING SHADOWS
On a cold late-September day in 2001, I found myself without a job and without a house for the first time in about five years. I’d lost my job in June, and in the middle of the dot-com burst, just finding a place that wasn’t throwing techs out by the bucket was a miracle.
I ended up moving back home with my parents for short while, and I was feeling mighty crummy. That’s when I saw online that the latest reincarnation of the local anime club was having a showing that weekend. Heck, it was free, and I wanted to see whatever became of the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization folks ten years later.
I not only got to see some old friends, a little grayer and with a few more wrinkles than I remembered, but also got to see some new anime, I’d never seen before. They screen the entire series of “Risky Safety” about an angel and demon visitng a young girl - one providing her support in a hard time, the other taunting her. The second series was “Tenshi ni Narumon” (or “I’m Gonna be an Angel”), about a young girl named Noelle, an an angel in training.
Maybe it had something to do with watching those two series, and then going home to an office full of porcelan angels (Mom loves those), but this story about a woman who believed she was an angel began to burble up in my head, and quickly formed up. Within the week, I had most of the basic story mapped out, and within a month, I was drawing the comics you see on these pages between phone calls looking for work, and the wee hours of the morning.
Andrea’s melacholy, as well as her apartment, echoed my own. I’d just lost my job, my apartment and my love, and I channeled a lot of that hurt into the life of the twenty-seven year old Andrea, framing the bigger story she was about to tell us.
The first story is a two part piece, about how the seven year old Andrea met her first angels, and the temptation of the Shadows shortly afterwards. The Angels are based on the Seraphs of the old Battlestar Galactica series, who I thought were beautiful, and very non-traditional. The Shadows are based on things I imagined seeing out of the corner of my eye as a child. I found out later that I wasn’t the only one to see them....
The seven year old Andrea actually exists in a young girl (now a young woman) named Hanna in Central Pennsylvania. Might want to remember that name, it becomes important pretty soon. As soon as the story called for a seven year old version of Andrea, I knew Hanna would be the basis for her.
I'm gonna need some proofreaders pretty soon.... :)
