drawing and hiking
A twenty-four hour comic from a 24-hour comic event Julie McGalliard organized in 2002. It hasn’t been online for a billion years, but is brokenly linked to from Scott McCloud’s old list of 24-hour comics . Anyway. I liked apocalypses before they were cool.
The idea behind this comic was to do a dialogue-free action sequence that might be a fragment from a larger story. The car is, of course, an AMC Gremlin X model. Did you know that some Gremlins had v8 engines? I don’t remember if I actually did the calculations to see how far the car would travel after it went off the edge, but I should have.
This is an unfinished comic. It was going to be your basic pirates in jail telling stories kind of thing, starting with Henry Morgan’s famous Panama expedition, and moving on to other more fictional exploits. Unfortunately I discovered that my dialogue skills, ahem, need work, so I never got beyond the first couple of pages. Mostly I just wanted to draw maps, and I really enjoyed the research. The first panel is meant to evoke the approach views that you can see in William Dampier’s books written in the 1690s. (Dampier was a pirate, navigator, scientist, and late 17th century Rick Steves who is well worth learning about.)
Port Royal was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692.
