How long does it take to draw an Erato comic strip? Usually one to two weeks of free moments - that is, at home, afer meals have been made and cleaned up, the house is quiet and if I haven't been distracted by other things. But it's not always the case. I've found - perhaps unsuprisingly, that I am drawing faster these days; likely it's a combination of familiar characters and having a Plan. But plans can go awry - The Underwater Galaxy took a massive detour and lost two scripted pages, and something similar happened to a strip coming up. Actually, that last one is the one this story replaces for no other reason than I just wanted to get this one up and published, because this story took me THREE days from waking up one morning wiht the story brand new and unfermented in my head, and two evenings' inking over the occasional beak in work hours to pencil it out. Benefits of the Lockdown, I guess.
All of the characters, save for the Jocondans, appeared in strips I've already done. And I had to look up the spelling of Jocondan and Forester - hand in your fan badge, sir! And broccoli.
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