{"id":1072,"date":"2008-08-04T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T12:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2008-11-23T11:34:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T15:34:57","slug":"three-penciled-pages-from-ameila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"Three Penciled Pages from &#8216;Ameila&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say you don&#8217;t miss your water &#8217;till your well runs dry, and in the case of my scanner I&#8217;d have to agree.\u00a0 The last two weeks during which I&#8217;ve been scanner-less have really made me realize how much I use a scanner&#8211;not just for scanning final inked pages, but for the little things&#8230; like posting stuff to my blog!<\/p>\n<p>So, to test out my fancy new large format scanner (I bought a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL.\u00a0 Scanning area: 12&#215;17.\u00a0 Look on my Scanner, ye Mighty, and despair!) I thought I&#8217;d scan a few pages from one of the current projects I&#8217;m working on&#8211;and scan each page in one fell swoop for once!<\/p>\n<p>These three (non-sequential) pages are from a graphic novel called <strong>Ameila Earhart: This Broad Ocean<\/strong>, forthcoming from Hyperion.\u00a0 It&#8217;s part of the same series as <strong>Satchel Paige: Striking out Jim Crow<\/strong>, <strong>Houdini the Handcuff King<\/strong> and the recent John Porcellino Thoreau biography.\u00a0 <strong>Amelia<\/strong> is written by mystery novelist Sarah Stewart Taylor; with breakdowns by Jason Lutes of <strong>Berlin<\/strong> fame; and with me handling penciling, inking and color.\u00a0 Perhaps of interest to fans of cartooning process: I&#8217;ve posted Jason&#8217;s thumbnails for each of these pages as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"amelia_pencils01\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/08\/amelia_pencils01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1073 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/08\/amelia_pencils01.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"amelia_pencils01\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"amelia_pencils02\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/08\/amelia_pencils02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1074 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/08\/amelia_pencils02.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"amelia_pencils02\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"amelia_pencils03\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/08\/amelia_pencils03.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1075 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/08\/amelia_pencils03.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"amelia_pencils03\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"amelia_thumbs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/08\/amelia_thumbs.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1076 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/08\/amelia_thumbs.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"amelia_thumbs\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say you don&#8217;t miss your water &#8217;till your well runs dry, and in the case of my scanner I&#8217;d have to agree.\u00a0 The last two weeks during which I&#8217;ve been scanner-less have really made me realize how much I use a scanner&#8211;not just for scanning final inked pages, but for the little things&#8230; like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1072\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,3,45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-hi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}