BUBBLES
"'It's curious, we are much more afraid of the Others, who aren't very dangerous, than of the bubbles. I suppose it's because the horror of the Others upsets us whereas the bubbles have a sort of perfect beauty.' It's true, bubbles are rather pretty. I often watch them float outside."
Julia Verlanger, The Bubbles
OTHER
"The Others change. Instead of being dissolved by the slime from the bubbles, they rise a moment later, apparently unharmed. But, some days later, things grow on them! Many arms, like the woman who looks like the goddess in the old book. Or loads of legs, or eyes everywhere, or two heads, or an assortment of mouths on their neck and chest. It's horrible!"
"I wonder if he is maybe outside, with lots of arms or legs, or if all his hair has fallen out and many eyes have sprouted on his head, or if... But I don't want to think about it."
Julia Verlanger, The Bubbles
As I've mentioned before, this series is really fun for me because it often tasks me with drawing things that I wouldn't normally tackle. The Other was easy and well within my wheelhouse but the bubbles themselves, that was a different story. I had to figure out how to make bubbles look interesting! Especially because they were literally just bubbles, not bubble creatures with eyes or other features.
Then I had to figure out how I tackle bubbles in my style. The bubble-creature I've drawn from Dreams In the Witch-House was meant to be a creature from another dimension so I could take some liberties. And I did with these guys too but I tried to stick closer to real bubbles.
The cover of Fiction #35 by Philippe Curval, The Prisoner & Killer Klows
There weren't too many things to riff off of; pop culture doesn't produce many bubble monsters. The closest I could think of were the rover from The Prisoner & the traps in Killer Klowns From Outer Space, but those were balloons not bubbles. Even the cover of Fiction #35 (The Bubbles first publication) illustrates the story in abstract terms. I do kind of like it but it's not as fun as it could've been.
A flopper, walker & haystack from Scott Nicolay's story Tuckahoe.
Now the Other was way easier. Many arms, legs, faces, ears, eyes?! That's great. It's like something out of a Brian Yuzna film. So the whole story is like Society meets I Am Legend? My only problem is that everyone's got The Substance on the brain right now and I wanted to avoid comparisons. Because I hated it and also I wanted to do my own interpretation. I had also just drawn a bunch of weird humanoid amalgams from Scott's story Tuckahoe and I kinda just used the momentum from those to keep going.
There weren't too many things to riff off of; pop culture doesn't produce many bubble monsters. The closest I could think of were the rover from The Prisoner & the traps in Killer Klowns From Outer Space, but those were balloons not bubbles. Even the cover of Fiction #35 (The Bubbles first publication) illustrates the story in abstract terms. I do kind of like it but it's not as fun as it could've been.
Now the Other was way easier. Many arms, legs, faces, ears, eyes?! That's great. It's like something out of a Brian Yuzna film. So the whole story is like Society meets I Am Legend? My only problem is that everyone's got The Substance on the brain right now and I wanted to avoid comparisons. Because I hated it and also I wanted to do my own interpretation. I had also just drawn a bunch of weird humanoid amalgams from Scott's story Tuckahoe and I kinda just used the momentum from those to keep going.
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