300!
By Dylan on July 26th, 2013Posted In: News
Here’s page 300! Â A nice milestone, I think. I believe when I initially asked Scott McCloud if it was okay to do this comic (what a notion!), I promised him it would only be 150 pages. Easy in and out and then I’d move on to other things. Well, it has never been easy, and it certainly hasn’t been in and out. The story has ended up to be something I really couldn’t have anticipated, but what a gift that is: to be pleasantly surprised in the face of a great deal of unanticipated difficulty.
I would like to dedicate this 300th page to myself when I was 16. If I’d known then that I’d be doing a 300th page of a historical fiction comic featuring a gritty middle-aged lady having a face-off with a wolf, I would’ve been murderously thrilled.
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As a middle-aged lady who occasionally imagines having a face-off with a wolf, I am murderously thrilled by this comic.
Nice page! Probably, if you’d told him it would be more than 300 pages, he wouldn’t have given you permission. It’s better this way.
!!! Omgosh! Might we (the royal We) inquire as to how or why you asked Mr McCloud if it’d be ‘okay’ (ie. righteously awesome) to do Family Man? :D (story time plz??? :DDD)
I’ve known Scott since I was a teen, actually! The blurb on the print edition of my first book, Bite Me, comes from him.
I think I chatted with him on the phone about it in the home of Jenn Manley Lee, (who’s known him for much longer than I have), before he came to Portland for a visit.
Not much of a story, but it’s funny that I thought I had to ask him permission before taking on my first book as a “grownup.” ;)
Was nice of him to let you! ;)
And CONGRATULATIONS! That’s a huge milestone. Here’s to three hundred more.