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"Against You I Will Fling Myself, Unvanquished And Unyielding, O Death!" ~Virginia Woolf

"Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!" ~Virginia Woolf
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Art vs Artist for 2019. It's been a busy year.

Forgot to post this yesterday- current panel, in which a trap is about to be sprung...

An early sketch for page 16- I'm at the halfway point at last! From here the drawing get pretty complicated and the crowd scenes even greater in scale.
A lot of research went into this segment of the story, because it centers on the raid of the Stonewall Inn. Specific dialogue spoken by side characters was drawn as much as possible from accounts I discovered in my reading.
For example: the dialogue spoken by the first officer through the door, "Police! We’re taking the place!" is accurate for the time period and this particular raid. Law enforcement would make regular raids on bars suspected of serving alcohol to the LGBT community at the time. This is where the public "illegality" of their enforcement centered, and it was a regular occurence. The mob owned the bar and would force patrons to sign a book upon entering the premises, both for the purposes of establishing the bar as a private after hours club, where drinking could be conducted at all hours. The ledger also served as leverage for the mafia looking to extort blackmail money from better known patrons lest they reveal this segment of their private life.
Ironically, for much of the next few decades, LGBT bar culture was central to community in many places, for some the only place they knew where others might easily be identified or be identified in return. With the openness of the last decade or so, many of these places have vanished or receded from public spaces.

I can't say that this will be the color scheme I'll use for the comic, but I was curious to see how it'd turn out.