SPQR Blues Chapters I-V

Your humble artist fell off the thrice-weekly schedule, and even the sketch-of-the-day updates, because of intense work on a new Great Big Project. All those pages and character designs from Big Project have to be put to some sort of use, and it’s such an easy step from the genteel plantations of the south to the humid jungles of South America—just add more water and alligators and/or crocodiles. So those pages are being recycled into a completely genteel story about a young lady explorer of the alternate-steampunk 19th century travelling through monster-infested swampland who encounters a hidden tribe of love-starved octopus-men, as one does. True romance ensues.

Click on the image to see a mock-up of the back cover, with descriptive copy, proposed illustration, content warning, Surgeon General’s notice, and an octopus in a squid suit.

The book will be 796 pages with a print size of 1-1/2×2 inches, and the word balloons will only be readable through a jeweller’s loupe. Please be sure to donate to production costs on Kickstarter, where the target goal is $300,000, so that I can get this finished in a week or so and get back to the Romans after the holidays.