I am so pleased, so pleased you cannot tell, that you have agreed to meet cybernetically, and although "[your] face will be digitally masked and [your] voice will be altered electronically at least in this way [I] should be able to get a clear indication of your integrity and truthfulness" re "the multiple phases of the delicate business that lies".
My mind and scrupulous conscience are at rest, you can be assured.
If you would wire $15,686.39 at your earliest convenience to my secret Swiss bank acct., I can start the proceedings to enrich us both and save sandinkylandic from the rape and pillage of nefarious unnammed agents of doom and destruction.
I was wondering about that too. I think we’ll find out in the next episode. Notice the enabling blue hand holding up the blood red machete. There is some kind of political analogy going on here.
Thanks so much for the comments on the pictures. I'm illustrating "forwards" this last couple of chapters. An image from 8 appears in 7 and an image from 9 appears in 8 and I think it's working and if I do another illustrated story in the future I think I'll keep doing it this way. The problem with a picture sitting on top of words that describe the same subject is that the art forces the reader to see things in a certain way. There's an intentional ambiguity in this story which hopefully makes a reader reevaluate what they're taking in as details about the two main characters emerge. The too-obvious pictures ruin that and "illustrating forward" doesn't really solve the problem either when I think about it. I regret doing Dear Friend looking mopish in the corner of her kitchen in Ch 6 because now everyone has that image of her and she looks very young here which she may or may not be.... At least I hid her face. I put it in mainly because I liked the drawing and I wanted to show it but it's probably hurting the story honestly. I've thought quite a bit about whether pictures help or hurt my work and lately I think it's the latter. This whole process of illustrating which I complained about quite a lot when I was doing Nature Preserve helped me develop my "chops" using Procreate on the iPad. On a good day with the right music playing some of these pictures only took an hour or two and it's a lot of fun doing them. Red and blue; yes that's one of the themes with the election looming in a few months. It's kind of terrifying to me. For those of you who actually look at comments I'll let you guys know there will be no pictures for the last two chapters. I did one for 9 but rejected it for the reasons stated above. I want people to have their own experience of this "experimental" story and I'd love to hear some feedback because I need it and I think this story is kind of a bridge towards more stream of consciousness sorts of things which I hope to do in the future.
I like the pictures a lot. They make for a multimedia experience. I wouldn’t worry about how it affects the story. Graphic images are open to interpretation too.
Dear Advocate Agronomnius-don
I am so pleased, so pleased you cannot tell, that you have agreed to meet cybernetically, and although "[your] face will be digitally masked and [your] voice will be altered electronically at least in this way [I] should be able to get a clear indication of your integrity and truthfulness" re "the multiple phases of the delicate business that lies".
My mind and scrupulous conscience are at rest, you can be assured.
If you would wire $15,686.39 at your earliest convenience to my secret Swiss bank acct., I can start the proceedings to enrich us both and save sandinkylandic from the rape and pillage of nefarious unnammed agents of doom and destruction.
signed
Your trusted partner
Clement Kriminsky
Ok. I'll Venmo you. Oh wait. I don't think they have Venmo in Switzerland.
I was wondering about the 3 horned gazelle illustration. Now I'm wondering about the bloody machete illustration.
I was wondering about that too. I think we’ll find out in the next episode. Notice the enabling blue hand holding up the blood red machete. There is some kind of political analogy going on here.
Thanks so much for the comments on the pictures. I'm illustrating "forwards" this last couple of chapters. An image from 8 appears in 7 and an image from 9 appears in 8 and I think it's working and if I do another illustrated story in the future I think I'll keep doing it this way. The problem with a picture sitting on top of words that describe the same subject is that the art forces the reader to see things in a certain way. There's an intentional ambiguity in this story which hopefully makes a reader reevaluate what they're taking in as details about the two main characters emerge. The too-obvious pictures ruin that and "illustrating forward" doesn't really solve the problem either when I think about it. I regret doing Dear Friend looking mopish in the corner of her kitchen in Ch 6 because now everyone has that image of her and she looks very young here which she may or may not be.... At least I hid her face. I put it in mainly because I liked the drawing and I wanted to show it but it's probably hurting the story honestly. I've thought quite a bit about whether pictures help or hurt my work and lately I think it's the latter. This whole process of illustrating which I complained about quite a lot when I was doing Nature Preserve helped me develop my "chops" using Procreate on the iPad. On a good day with the right music playing some of these pictures only took an hour or two and it's a lot of fun doing them. Red and blue; yes that's one of the themes with the election looming in a few months. It's kind of terrifying to me. For those of you who actually look at comments I'll let you guys know there will be no pictures for the last two chapters. I did one for 9 but rejected it for the reasons stated above. I want people to have their own experience of this "experimental" story and I'd love to hear some feedback because I need it and I think this story is kind of a bridge towards more stream of consciousness sorts of things which I hope to do in the future.
I like the pictures a lot. They make for a multimedia experience. I wouldn’t worry about how it affects the story. Graphic images are open to interpretation too.