what's in the hopper, hopping ~

it's update day over at Reconstruction! (i've really got to stop posting only on Mondays and Thursdays, because really, i should have more to talk about, no?)

today's page is the train that took me forever to draw. so you have seen it before, but here is it in context. this transition never existed in the original book, but i felt like the comic version needed it. i also really wanted a super wide shot of the city itself, but confess i got lazy. that's going to happen a lot, unfortunately.

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bachsoprano told me i had to write the conspiracy story because my posts about it make no sense (ha! sorry about that to everyone on my flist). the good news is: i am making good progress on it. last night i broke down the main character "sets" (who's front and center, who's choric, who's meta-theatrical, etc.) and came up with what i think will be a pretty fabulous construct. i also made some decisions on the "look" of the thing. i have been working on the outline and it's still struggling, but things are lining up with it.

between Reconstruction, Jack, and another project (still in the planning stages, but due to launch in May, possibly), it might be a good long while before the conspiracy story sees the light of day, though my goal for April is to finish up a final complete character list and a bibliography (that in itself is daunting at the moment ~ i keep coming up with new sources).


today's picture, since i have mushed Reconstruction and In Pursuance of Said Conspiracy into one post, is the only point of cross-over that might have been possible between the two ~ it's the Holliday Street Theatre in Baltimore where, in august of 1858, the Booth brothers performed Richard III. Lewis Fletcher attended the performance.

happy thursday all!

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a night at the theatre ~

so i have a cold, right? and i can't really focus to do much, so all day i have been flitting between one thing and another: reading a little here, drawing a little there, trying to write (but not getting much done there). and i sat looking at my list of "sets" and decided, oh, i'll just try slapping something together and let's see what comes out.

a whoooooole lot of hours later, i have this to show for it, which was totally unexpected. it took me a lot more time and effort than i thought it would, but it also came out not too shabby at all. i freely robbed from Harper's Weekly (intentionally ~ it will be duly cited), but taking care to correct some of the fudged details from the original etching (like the flags and the curtains, the George Washington picture, and the arrangement of the columns. i decided not to put a theatrical set on the stage. the blank space will be easier to work with.

anyway, this is an extreme reduction, so you won't be able to see much detail, but you're not missing much either ~ it's a pretty simple line drawing.


all-in-all it's a little tidier than i had meant for it to be, but i'm calling it a "keeper". there are a couple of more details i might add, but that's one set down and about thirty more to go (many of which are a lot less complicated than this one).



Brady's actual photo from 1865 ~
this is one of two that shows the onstage set
and a different arrangement of the flags.
i will probably add the open lower boxes to my own.
this just may be do-able after all!

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