October 31, 2008

Carnivale: a Kit Kaleidoscope story, book one

debuting at the APE, Nov. 1 and 2
Carnivale: a Kit Kaleidoscope story, book one

This new edition contains the revised beginning for Carnivale.

This new Kit Kaleidoscope story is about art, gender, identity, and the difficulties of love. And, as always, it’s wordless.

This book starts with Kit in her apartment trying to paint, but her attempts only result in frustration. We also see the gravedigger dreaming of a man throwing himself from a bridge. Then it’s the day of carnivale. Masked revelers hit the streets, and so does Kit, dressed in a suit of armor. She gets drowned in the bacchanalia, but finds a brief moment of peace listening to a guitarist in nearby alley. But even this small respite gets interrupted.

Carnivale is hand printed in duotone.

ordering

October 9, 2008

This is how I keep myself going

Just for comparison to the images from the carnivale in the previous posts, here are two images from older Kit Kaleidoscope stories.

The Masked Ball:

And The Carnal House:

This is the kind of stuff I do late at night to convince myself that I’ve learned something after all these years.

July 31, 2008

Carnivale page 44

The plot’s finally gonna start kicking in here…

July 28, 2008

Carnivale page 43(?)

Back to where I had left Carnivale: 
I’m calling this page 43, but it’ll be some other number when I’m done with the new beginning of the story. 

July 17, 2008

Carnivale new page 14



This is the end of the new intro. I think it fits a lot better than the old one. It at least fits with the story I have in my head better. Here you can see more of the conflicts in Kit’s life. The other part, about the guy wearing wings and jumping off the bridge, will be clearer later on. But this sets up a major plot point and conflict as well. 

I once heard David Cronenburg once say that he works on movies to discover what interested him in making that movie in the first place.  It’s a process of finding the emotional resonance you had with the idea of the story. When I first heard that I was shocked. It seemed too haphazard a way of creating something. But it’s true of me with Carnivale. It took me 40 pages to really understand what the story is about. Though, as Kerry points out in his comment for the last post, in some ways every Kit Kaleidoscope story has helped me to understand what it is that interests me about the character. Or, more likely, she’s malleable enough to change according to whatever my obsession is at the time. 

Anyway, I think that I’m going to keep going and put the actual carnivale after this scene. 

July 15, 2008

Carnivale new pages 12 and 13

 

June 20, 2008

Carnivale new page 8

I’m still working on the new beginning to Carnivale. Actually, I’m focusing more on the revision than where the story has stopped. The more I work, the more I realize a lot of the old pages are going to get scrapped or redrawn in some way.

You can see the whole new beginning through my comix page.

May 16, 2008

Carnivale page 42.2

my comix page

May 13, 2008

Carnivale page 42.1

my comix page

April 16, 2008

Carnivale page 41.3

my comix page

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