Kickstarter Sketches
Shaenon: I’m steadily filling Kickstarter orders for Skin Horse Volume 4, and that means doing lots and lots of bonus character sketches. Here are a few samples.
Also, if you’re in the Bay Area, you’ll want to attend the Volume 4 release party at Tr!ckster in Berkeley on Saturday, November 9 from 5:00-7:00. I will have sweet cakes and wine, or similar. And lots of books.
Channing: Dear whoever requested Tip in uniform: I agree with your selection wholeheartedly. These others are nice, too! I am glad to see that Dr. Lee is a fan of Interstellar Pig, the reading of which was a far too shaping event of my young life. The sequel was not quite so satisfying.
The one I got of Sweetheart as a puppy was just perfect! Thanks Shaenon!
Minor related question – both to Sheanon/Channing and the fellow KS participants as a whole – I’m frame shopping (finally) for the LAST book’s KS art, and was wondering:
A) Is 4″ x 11″ (measured at the lines) standard for the original strips?
B) are the character sketches consistently 4″x7″(ish) on 5×8 paper?
Reason being is that I’d like to order for both sets at the same time – color-coding the mats to match the book covers.
The site I found will do both frames and matting down to 1/8″ measurements, and at about a third less to half the rate of other custom framing sites (based on about six hours of Googling and generating frame specs. If things come out well I’m planning to share photos and details of the frame store.
Tip needs some kind of accident granting him (slightly disproportionately large) breasts, but only a temporary basis. Probably he should loose them just as he adjusts and adapts so that he would then know what he was missing/dodging. Seems like the entire bittersweet then have no choice in the matter would suit Skin Horse well.
Mmm, I don’t know; Tip has never expressed any desire to actually *be* female or have the secondary/primary sex characteristics thereof. In fact, he seems very confident about his appearance and comfortable in his own skin. I don’t think giving him breasts, however temporarily, would give him any deep realizations vis a vis his gender identity that he hasn’t already had.
He’s worn breasts to work before. It wouldn’t phase him any.
Channing, I don’t think that’s the book Interstellar Pig that Dr Lee is carrying. The proportions look rather more like the board game.
(Which is a worrying prospect, but then this is Skin Horse and Dr Lee we’re talking about.)
IIRC Chris, Marcie, and Nick played a game once: http://skin-horse.com/comic/psych-test-this-one/
Also, re the sequel: that’s the first time I’ve read a book and thought “the author read a specific book before writing this.”
Interstellar Pig was a big one for me as well, doubly so since the author came and gave a talk at my middle school, which really turned me on to writing.
Nice picture, but I think it would be even nicer if Tip would hold a fan. Somehow that feels more appropriate with that dress and hair.