Michaela is not home. She is a closeted trans woman who suddenly wakes up in a home brewed table-top role-playing fantasy world. And the strangest thing of all… everyone here seems to hail her as a powerful heroine! As she tries to find her way back to the real world, the hardest battle isn’t with giant monsters, treacherous terrain, and evil spell casters... but with believing she could ever be the girl everyone already sees. With the help of a new friend, a bubbly flower huntress named Azi, Michaela will have to learn to harness the magic of a powerful weapon and defeat a terrifying force threatening these mysterious lands to make it back home.
The best thing I’ve found to do early on in the comic-making process is just draw A LOT. Just filling pages and pages with sketches. Sometimes even before words get down to paper. It also consists of lots of research, watching movies, shows, videos, listening to music, and saving images that could be relevant to the story. Comics are a visual medium, so being able to almost use the pencil to explore who my characters are and what the world is can be extraordinarily helpful. I often try different designs, clothes, and hairstyles, sometimes throwing in broken phrases or words I want to return to, and then I just throw everything onto the page. Now, I typically like sharing my stories once they’re closer to something final, but I wanted to instead give a sense of what a story can look like early on: messy, inconsistent, exploratory. There isn’t an exact science... I just know I’m having a lot of fun! What’s your comic development process like? Where do you like to start?
Inspired by Quantum Leap, The Woman King, Iyanu, my beautiful girlfriend, and a whole lot of AURORA.
More on this story as it develops!🧡💜⚔️