Page 10 of the project I’m working on for Jason Rodriguez’s Colonial Comics anthology from Fulcrum Press.

My outline-y script reads:

Eunice further assimilated into Kahnwake culture. Daily life centers very much around corn: planting, gathering, drying, grinding, cooking.
Being invited with the women to the fields is a big moment.

The home life in the longhouse is warm and communal.

So this is essentially a non-sequential page, but a series of vignettes that add up to Eunice’s generally happy childhood at Kahnawake.  It’s a matter of putting the anecdotes into an overall page design or architecture that really can be read in any order.  Since she left no written record of her time there, it’s all made up.

I definitely wanted to make use of the very first sketch I did for the story:

Then  lot of scribbling to figure how to arrange things:

The thumbnail:

The rough. I decided to curve the drawings in that middle tier around the “archway” of the bottom panel, giving it more of an architectural feel:

The final line art, with blue pencils showing.  No real reason to show this, I just like the way the blue pencil looks (the scan’s patched together, hence the different coloring):

And the final:

 

 

Going to be a challenge to color!