comic page wip & tidbit (Patreon)

many many details!! or how Martha would say: Noah, go clean your room.....

I have so much fun drawing the details 💙 For this scene I'll go all out because I think rooms tell a lot about a character. Noah has always been a collector, he gets attached to things he finds while exploring, and he has a habit of taking "useless" stuff home, like feathers, mouse skulls, small bones, stones, leaves...... a bit like a small animal would do to make a nest cozy (🦌 hmmm). I'm able to show his room and how it looked before it got flooded, and all the things he lost when it happened. It's a subtle topic that goes through the whole comic, and I think because it's so subtle it's easy to forget that he lost most of his things (he collected over years) and he's still dealing with it.

While rewriting and having a lot of distance to drawing, I had a lot of time to think about what the main themes are for Ghost Lights. Some months ago I read something about the importance of theme in a story and how it is influencing the whole plot and the character's actions, and how when it's done well ties everything together, without even really being noticeable. I don't really have a strategy when I write, so I didn't choose specific themes at the beginning of writing. It kind of just happens along the way for me, so I was really curious if I could identify some themes. And while I actively thought about it I noticed a few very strong ones in the plot. And I think "home" is the strongest one! Home and all the different kinds of homes we can have (places, someone we love, our planet, a body, etc), all the different feelings tied to it, and what it means to find a home or feeling lost without the stability of one.

I got really excited when I noticed it appears everywhere in the plot. The plot starts with that theme... and mmaybe it will end with it, too 🐾!