Annotated 10-21
So this is one of my favorite Frigg moments, like if you agree.
Back in the day, the page divided commenters into two camps: those who liked the exaggerated faces and those who didn’t (with a side order of “Is it Schulz or manga?”). I thought that was a panic, since the one introductory instruction we’d given John about drawing Frigg (beyond the piles of reference) was “She makes comical faces.” Friggface was not only a feature of Erica’s work, but one we were keen to preserve.
Phil got a little sandpapery about the debate here; John wisely kept his responses short and gracious. I was like, “Guys, have you seen the comments sections on other comics? This is nothing.”
Tone can be challenging to manage, but John pretty much always grasped how serious the art was or wasn’t meant to be and followed through on that. (Jason, by contrast, would sometimes lighten things up a bit more than I’d planned, but usually to the work’s benefit. I’d learned a lot more about tone in the years between starting Fans and starting Guilded Age.)
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That debate sounds weird.
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Ironically Frigg doesn’t look like she needs a healer at all. A smith on the other hand…
Of all the things I love about Erica Henderson’s work, Friggface might be the greatest thing ever. I was super dubious about the artist switch, and whether or not they could do Friggface even half as well as Erica did was pretty much the only consideration for whether it was too jarring to continue reading.
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