Lunarbistro.com is the
art, comics and sketch blog
of indigo kelleigh.
Hey! My internet-friend Manning Krull just posted this awesome set of pics to the Weird History livejournal, featuring a turn-of-the-century cafe in Montmartre called Le Cafe d'Enfer (the Cafe of Hell). Check out this awesomely creepy place:
Go to the post to see a bunch more pictures, including interiors!
And of course, when I saw this, I was struck by the amazing similarity to the Cafe Faust, which I designed for a far-too-brief scene in Chutney Point:
How weird is that? I wonder if anyone can find me photos of a fish-&-chips restaurant shaped like a giant fish, or a gift shop carved into a giant redwood tree...
So, yeah! This is the last page of Chutney Point. At least, that's the last page of it I ever drew. As I've alluded to earlier, I've considered returning to this material to work up a sequel of sorts, but that's a long way off (Chutney Point has traditionally been my 'back-burner' story, to be worked on when I need a break from another, larger project). Anyway, the entire story of Chutney Point is now completely available in the Comics archive! Hoorah!
So, at this point I was hoping to have Ellie Connelly finished, or enough of it at least that I could feel comfortable beginning to post it here. But as it stands right now, I've only got the first page mostly done, and only the first 28 pages or so even roughly plotted out. I need to make a lah-hot more progress before I'm ready to start posting it in the 'Current Comic' section. In the meantime, my plan is to finish cleaning up a couple of my minicomics and post them - "The Night I Flew", my 24-hour comic, and "Breakfast at the Lunar Bistro", the minicomic/poem I wrote years ago, from which I took the name for this site. So. I'm not sure which one's going up first, but that's the plan.
When those are done, I'll probably re-post the first four chapters of The Circle Weave, just to keep something regularly updating here. And hopefully by the time THAT is done, I'll have some Ellie to share with y'all.
So, this is the end of Chutney Point, starting here on page 141. The story was only originally supposed to be 140 pages, but once I started scripting the second half, I realized that I needed an extra 12 pages to wrap everything up, which made Act 7 almost a double-length issue. It was kind of cool, though - sort of a bonus for people who were reading it, I suppose. Anyway, this is the start of those extra 12 pages.
So, after Chutney Point concludes, I won't have any new comics to put up in its place, unfortunately. I'd been hoping to use the time running CP to get enough material together on Ellie that I could start running those first pages immediately, but my entire year was spent writing and rewriting the script. And now I'm beginning to rewrite it again, as rough layouts. So after six drafts now, I still don't have any finished artwork from the book which I could run. I've been getting anxious to try a couple finished pages to see how they'll look, though, and might try to do up one or two this week as I continue on the roughs. I've also got 'The Night I Flew' all scanned in, ready to be cleaned up, colored, and posted, and will probably try to have that up in the meantime, until I've got enough Ellie work completed to start posting it.
I really don't want to let the 'current comic' section go blank...
Yep, Chutney Point, Act 2 starts posting today. So far it's just the cover, but hey, it's a start.
Also, I'm about 2/3 done with the King of Coins, the next card in my 8-Bit Tarot deck, after just a couple hours work. I need to get cracking on these if I'm to have the whole deck done in a year. It might sound like a long way off, but there's still 50-some-odd cards to do. And the Ellie Connelly script is finished (mostly) and taking a breather. I scripted up to the end, and it's a page shy of being a nice, even number, so I'll go back and add a bit more here and there to square it off. After that, I'm on to drawing, which is a great place to be. Check back tomorrow for the Tarot card!
Yep, I noticed that today's page is the end of Chutney Point Act One, which means that it's complete now in the Comics Archive, and Act Two will be starting on Monday. I hope you're all enjoying this little trip down memory lane for me.
Spent the better part of my evening adding Chutney Point issues 3, 4, 5, and 6 to the database, so it should continue updating uninterrupted through the month of December. I know it may seem like a long time to have just this one story running on the main page, but it really is intended to give me enough time to get the Ellie Connelly story mostly finished so I can seamlessly transition into that story when Chutney Point is finished. We'll see how that plan works out.
Hey! Looks like the comic updated as expected, which is good to know - the first real test of my homemade auto-updating comic database scripts! If all continues to run as planned, all seven complete issues of Chutney Point should be updating every Monday, Wednesday and Friday until it's done, which should be about this time next year. In the meantime, I'll be busily working on my next comic, "Ellie Connelly and the Curse of the Moon's Eye".
Yes, that's the real title.
So, for a progress report on that book: I spent a couple hours scripting last week, and have now completed script on the first 13 pages of the book (for reference, each page has about twice as much content as a typical episode of Circle Weave had), and I'm heading out to the coffee shop to continue scripting right now. My goal is to be up to page 40 before I go to bed tonight. Also, I wanted to post a study of the main character, trying to get her face just right. enjoy!
I just spent the better part of the night updating this site some more, tweaking the comics archive scripts and the css for the updating comic area above. I also added the first 20 pages of Chutney Point (my 2-year-old graphic novel) to the database, so those will be updating three times a week for a while yet - there's 152 pages, which I work out to a little over 50 weeks. This should about give me enough time to get my graphic novel started. I hope I can get it done by then, but I'm not counting on it. At the very least I should be posting some near-finished samples from it.
I did do some more sketching this evening, but didn't get very far. I'll continue to work on it, though, and when I have something worth showing, I'll do so. My big hang-up tonight was the main character's hairstyle. Hair's never been my strong suit, and hairstyles from the 1890's have thus far eluded my grasp. Bah.
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