Friday means another new page of LILY OF THE VALLEY.
Here's a clip from the page. The full page can be viewed in full screen high resolution HERE!
This page returns to Lily on the night of Mrs. Bellows' horrific demise.
The first panel I wanted to establish visually that this is the same house where Lily attacked Mrs. Bellows. So there's the blood in the doorframe and the mailbox. I regret covering up the pineapple on the mailbox with a caption though. There are lemons and a banana and the last panel to make up for it.
STRAWBERRIES, LEMONS, AND PINEAPPLES
I like the aesthetic that the image of fruits offer this comic so I've been working them in wherever I can. In my mind it just balances the violent content. Like I could do the most violent scene imaginable on half a page and if the second half of the page was an enormous pile of strawberries filling the entire panel, everything would be alright. Please leave a comment and tell me if that makes sense to you, because for some reason it makes absolute perfect sense to me. And I hope I'm not the only one...
Just for fun, here's a rundown of all the fruits to date:
Page 1 - panel 2 - lemon magnet on the mirror
Page 1 - panel 3 - strawberries on the lip gloss
Page 3 - panel 4 - pineapple on the mailbox
Page 18 - panel 4 - lemons, banana on the kitchen counter
Watch for more.
THE CURSE OF MILLHAVEN
Designing this page I was listening to The Curse of Millhaven by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The page as a whole is mostly influenced by the end of the song/story with the killer's home being invaded by cops. It's amusing to me how the killer in the song feels bothered by the cops entering her home "without even phoning". I wanted a similar vibe to be going on here.
Throughout the comic so far I've tried to keep aspects of nature alive everywhere. It keeps things primal and to me suggests that the town of Elmwood is just loosely balancing the line between civil and primitive. A town in the centre of the woods trying to fight its natural urges and pretend to be separate from the animals. I've used plants in houses, leaves, the wind, animals (rats, flamingos...) to achieve this. On this page, in the second panel, I used a group of wooden geese decor on the wall behind the cops.
In the last panel, I chose the angle I did to create a claustrophobic feeling, like Lily is trapped, which she very well may be. But I also used this angle to establish key elements including the pots and pans hanging from the ceiling and the knives on the kitchen counter.
FAN ART!
Here's a really beautiful piece of LILY fan art by Walter Ostlie! I really love this. It really captures the tone and spirit of the comic. Check out his other work HERE.
REVIEWS
Webcomic site Decaffeinated Coffee recently constructed a list of what they consider the top ten webcomics of 2009! LILY OF THE VALLEY actually appears on the list! and at fourth place! Read what author Chuck Harrison has to say about it as well as check out the other great comics on the list RIGHT HERE!
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this page and take it all in. I hope it brings things to your attention you didn't notice before so you can go back and find more enjoyment in earlier pages. This page and page 19 going live next Friday have become two of my favourite pages to date. Enjoy. :)
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