Basil + Gideon #9: A View

I’ve been feeling a little burnout by my beginning of semester workload, but seeing the sun these past few days has really healed my soul, so I took some inspiration from the weather for today’s page. Also it’s a landscape spread since I’ve been feeling the urge to change up my layouts recently, next week I’ll probably be back to something more standard though. Hope everyone gets a chance to grab some sunshine, while it lasts!

Basil + Gideon is an ongoing narrative comic, if this is your first time reading check out the first installment here!

Basil + Gideon #8: Ghost Diner

I’m trying out this 3 row page layout instead of my usual 4 row layout. I’m still fairly new to comics so I want to test different strategies for storytelling and figure out what works best for me. Not sure about this one yet, I might switch back next week, but first impressions: 3 rows means I make less panels overall than the previous layout, so the visual narrative needs to be more succinct, but I can put a little more time and detail into each panel. If anyone has a favorite comic layout or suggestions and would like to share, I’d love to hear it!

Basil + Gideon is an ongoing narrative comic, if this is your first time reading check out the first installment here!

Basil + Gideon #7: blizzard

We’ve been having really mild winter weather, so far, but every time that I walk outside and it’s snowing it reminds me of that one scene in Fellowship of the Ring where they’re scaling that mountain in the snow. I realize my experience probably isn’t universal, but hopefully that clears up what the inspiration for this comic was.

Basil + Gideon is an ongoing narrative comic, if this is your first time reading check out the first installment here!