Love the color palette, Dave!

Great as this looked on your iPad, I don’t think I noticed the aged paper. Or perhaps you didn’t add it yet? Looks good.

I will be curious how this plays for people who don’t know the way-dated, region-specific ad it references. Or how many readers even know what the square object intersecting the “WAM!” in panel four is.

Thanks for chiming in. Hopefully anyone lost by the dated references will be inspired to check out the heavily-detailed overview page. In addition to my usual art process babble, it also has historical data on Bell System divestiture of 1984, New England Telephone/NYNEX, as well as “The Family” advertising campaign created by Boston agency Cabot Advertising.

Then again, putting a picture of an actual telephone couldn’t hurt.

Dave, you are really getting that coloring down.

I wish I felt that way, but thanks Doug. I’m nowhere near “getting in right the first time”. Every page, every panel, every sequence is an inefficient, time-draining struggle. Coordinating the spinning plates of theme, local, distance and just plain coherency is tough for me. I’m coloring another story now; you’d think I hadn’t learned a thing.