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S. Harkham 20
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From Crickets #6's installment of the "Blood of Virgin" story, the one in which Seymour hits rock bottom.
Love the composition on this page with the top half being mostly black and the bottom being white, the "Ring!" that is used as the transition from work to home and a classic Harkham hit in the face gag. One of the bonuses to any Harkham original is he doesn't use blue pencil, like Jaime Hernandez, and all of the pencils are on the page so you can see a lot of choices he made on the page. In this case some of the white panels on the bottom show where drew more background details but decided to erase them in favor of the big blocks of negative white space to balance the blacks in the top half and to convey the current state of our protagonist.
On the story side of things, Ida, Seymour wife, left the country with their child, and the metaphor of the rotting ceiling above the couples bed was introduced in an early installment of the story. It's something that Ida notices, asks Seymour to address with the manager, but he forgets and doesn't even remember the spot at all, so here is the payoff, the problem Seymour ignored has rotted so bad that a piece of the ceiling falls off and the metaphor literally hits him in the face.
This page was featured in the New Yorker's write up of Blood of the Virgin:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sammy-harkhams-work-life-balance
Sidenote: A large part of my job is working with and editing footage so we often use the "Follow the footage" motto that has inspired Seymour's new edit.
Pencil, ink and white out on bristol board.
11" x 14"
Love the composition on this page with the top half being mostly black and the bottom being white, the "Ring!" that is used as the transition from work to home and a classic Harkham hit in the face gag. One of the bonuses to any Harkham original is he doesn't use blue pencil, like Jaime Hernandez, and all of the pencils are on the page so you can see a lot of choices he made on the page. In this case some of the white panels on the bottom show where drew more background details but decided to erase them in favor of the big blocks of negative white space to balance the blacks in the top half and to convey the current state of our protagonist.
On the story side of things, Ida, Seymour wife, left the country with their child, and the metaphor of the rotting ceiling above the couples bed was introduced in an early installment of the story. It's something that Ida notices, asks Seymour to address with the manager, but he forgets and doesn't even remember the spot at all, so here is the payoff, the problem Seymour ignored has rotted so bad that a piece of the ceiling falls off and the metaphor literally hits him in the face.
This page was featured in the New Yorker's write up of Blood of the Virgin:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/sammy-harkhams-work-life-balance
Sidenote: A large part of my job is working with and editing footage so we often use the "Follow the footage" motto that has inspired Seymour's new edit.
Pencil, ink and white out on bristol board.
11" x 14"
Publication
- Blood of the virgin
- Cornelius
- 02/2023
- Page 185
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