Field Notes

About a month before my trip to Maine, I submitted a proposal to do a 6-page comic to be included in an anthology called Field Notes. I actually submitted two ideas: one about the scars on my body, the second, much less edgy, about Anna’s hummingbirds. The second was accepted, I turned in my first draft, was given a couple of suggestions which were easy to accommodate, and then I went to Maine, where a one-week stay turned into three weeks that included grieving, visits to lawyers, clearing out an apartment, and no Anna’s hummingbirds in sight.

I have said before that I am the queen of first drafts, and the gap between this idea and its deadline next week has made it really hard to get back to the project. I’ve been forcing myself to take my ipad to a coffee shop to work on it because at home there are too many distractions.

The panel at right is one of the pages. I originally had hoped to do this on paper. I’ve turned to Procreate in the interests of time and my sanity. I have some refining to do of all the pages. My one question is whether to leave the watercolor paper texture in the submission or not. Still pondering.