Single and nearly friendless, this incarnation of Shanna is almost apologetic about the human connections she does have. I find that deeply sad, but original-flavor Shanna was also slow to admit to any joy in her life that wasn’t colored […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The world of Fans, like the Sepia World of Guilded Age, started out looking like our own, then got stranger. In Fans’ first pages, Shanna was a low-paid journalist craving approval (with an old-fashioned bouffant hairdo and shoulderpads like a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There she is, rendered for the first time in John’s beautiful sepia style! Believe it or not, bringing Shanna into this story was Phil’s idea, not mine, even though I had already written her on and off for more than […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
HEY, HOW ABOUT SOME MORE SEPIA WORLD? EVERYONE LOVES SEPIA WORLD! And they ESPECIALLY love it when it’s a Sepia scene that doesn’t even have HR in it! Ah, but we needed perspective on what effect HR’s obsessive schemes were […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“…and besides, everyone knows we plant willows for death, not oaks.” On top of the tensions Phil and I experienced producing Chapter 18, we were having a rough time of it at conventions, too. Sales were fair, but our in-person […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
