The weather was considerably more temperate this month than last. There were only a few 80+ days, most were in the low to mid 70s and there were even a few cool days. It was a welcome reprieve. It's no surprise I was able to read significantly more than last month. Here's the list:
Walter Tevis, Mockingbird
Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Emile Zola, Money
John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle
Jefferson R. Cowie, Stayin’ Alive
Kerascoet, Beauty
Kerascoet, Little Miss Don’t Touch Me vol. 1
Mandeville, Fable of the Bees
Still Reading:
Paul Cartledge, Democracy: A Life
Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus, The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
Progress on my comic book is still chugging along. I’ve now sketched out chapters 1-5 (of 12) and have story outlines for chapters 6-9. I basically know what I want to do with the remaining 3 chapters although I plan to hold off sketching them out until I’ve brought chapters 1-9 to a more finished form. I’ve found that I work best on my days off and that if I’m well rested and have 4-6 hours of free time I can sketch out an entire chapter. That is basically a chapter a week. So, for next month I hope to finish the next 3 chapters. After having sketched them out I will need to work on dialogue and some significant edits and revisions. I’m still debating whether to color them and how. I may try to color them digitally (which I will have to teach myself how to do).
