Chapter 2 (Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 4 and the first two pages of Chapter 6 posted previously)
InDesign document, computer drawn
characters by Philip Hogg
©2010 Charlene Brown
The production and layout of this graphic novel has become much less random since I’ve got Philip Hogg doing the figure drawings. I hope you’ll be able to pick up the plot, until now barely detectable, now that you’ve seen the Prologue and first two chapters. We may even do Chapter 3 next!
The action in later chapters takes place in the former Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan, which has been in the news again lately. I’ve resisted the temptation to make the characters in this story, which is taking place in 2003, even more prescient than they already are – but I’ll admit I was considering adding lines like “the Kyrgyz government that takes over in a couple of years will probably be overthrown in about April 2010.”
I’ll be away from my computer on another painting trip, beginning in a couple of days. You may remember that I mentioned after our family trip to Mexico in February that I didn’t find the time or a place to spread out the supplies I listed and took along for ‘studio’ painting Well, I’m taking all the same stuff this time – because we’re going to be in the same place for three weeks! The ‘place’ is a cabin on a cruise through the
