Super secret rough draft of a project (Patreon)

Hello special friends, thought I'd give you a little peek into something I'm working on. 

Some people that I went to high school with are launching this really cool writing residency called The Mastheads . See I happen to have grown up (and currently live) in a very beautiful and very historic (and very boring for a teenager) part of New England called The Berkshires. And these famous writer dudes (aka The Mastheads): Melville, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Holmes, and Thoreau all spent time here. They even went on a hike together. And for the residency they're building five studios, one to represent each of these guys. 

(I actually applied for the residency and didn't get it, but I was unsurprisingly the only cartoonist to apply, so it kinda makes sense. Maybe some day.)

BUT instead of being a resident, they actually asked me to make comics about the Mastheads for the local paper. Which I'm very excited about. Researching this stuff and reading their writing has made me feel like I'm in high school again, and not in a good way (reading for school was something I always hated), but now I feel like I've learned something. It's the little details about their lives and personalities that I like. I probably feel the most drawn to Melville, because he's the least intellectual and most down to earth. 

This is the rough draft of the first of four installments for the local paper (The Berkshire Eagle). I just now sent it to the editors and haven't even heard back yet so you're some of the very first people to see it. 

xo

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