These are some "thumbnail sketches" (I guess they're called thumbnails because they're so small-- in real life each of these drawings are only a couple of inches high) which are essentially, very rough layouts of how the finished pages of Hades will eventually look. You'll notice, as I am both the writer and illustrator of Olympians, I actually kind of do both at the same time-- there are small snippets of dialogue and writing in the margins, and sometimes, in the drawings themselves.
Enjoy this sneak peek look at Hades. I'm sure that some of you sharp-eyed mythophiles will be able to tell exactly what is going on.
It's a hippo.
ReplyDelete(jk, it's the Beginning of Kore/Persephone's Abduction where she picks the flower and then the boom and the AAAH! and the dragging underground, and the...)
No, you were right the first time. It's a hippo.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to Hades,whether there will be also the story of Orpheus
ReplyDeletemy order came recently from the U.S. two editions of Zeus and Athena;]and I live in Poland
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ReplyDeletePoland! Pretty cool. I haven't gotten over there yet.
ReplyDeleteThe story of Orpheus was in the first draft of Hades, but I had to cut it-- the story of the abduction of Persephone just commanded too much attention and I felt Orpheus and Eurydice deserved more space. Tentative plans are now for their tale to be told in Aphrodite's book (because it's a love story) or perhaps Apollo's (because of the music connection).
I am a big fan of mythology and comics;]once I was looking for comics based on mythology,] and I came across the Zeus and Athena and I had to buy
ReplyDeletestory of the Minotaur will Posejdon;]?
Good guess! The Minotaur will be in Poseidon (I started writing it the other day) as will the division of the cosmos with Zeus and Hades, Polyphemos and Odysseus, and the competition between Poseidon and Athena over Athens, so far.
ReplyDeletewhen you write Poseidon if you have space you should put in the time he and the other gods rebelled against Zeus and locked him up in gold chains
ReplyDeleteit would be cool to to see the two most powerful gods fighting
As of my first draft (Poseidon being the star of book 5) that scene in there, anonymous.
ReplyDeletehi I'm william from the school sunset park prep that answer all that question that day in the library I want to ask you if hade came out yet and if you are going to write something on cyclopes like a whole book about it just like the Olympians
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