Page 19 of Hereville is online. Hope y’all like it.
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Dude, by consistently posting on time, you are making the rest of us deadline-slackers look really bad. Knock it off!
Barry, great page as always. Also, thanks for providing the incentive to subscribe to Girl-A-Matic Forum; I look forward to exploring the rest of their fabulous comics when finals are over.
I do like it, never fear.
I like the idea of 12x power naps. If they could sell them, I’m sure the whole town’s would be wealthy.
Excellent!
So, would it be wrong for me to convert on the basis of napping effectiveness?
I love how humane your renderings are. You often make note of the Muppet quality of your characterization, yet it’s softened by the individuality you give the characters, as if each one has his or her own story to tell.
And a very sweet part of the story this page is, too.
Love it Amp. And wait to prove me wrong, after posting two weeks in a row I thought, “Now there’s no way he’ll post three weeks in a row.” Yet here we are.
I love the napping panel.
I love this comic, and I can’t wait until it comes out as a book. It is the perfect thing for me to read on a break in my Thursday night cooking. I want to know where this sentimental-and-idealized-yet-ultimately-pretty-realistic portrayal of Jewish observance is coming from, and also the origins of your idiosyncratic transliteration system! Also I want to know when you are coming to Boston so I can invite you for Shabbot (or Shabbat, or Shabbos, or whatever. )
see, I’m starting to wait for the other shoe to drop.
pretty much every comic I’ve read in the last few years starts out kinda softballing like this.
so it’s comic (ha ha) or heartwarming (like this)
and then the other shoe fucking drops.
watch, we have two more pages of fun, and then Amp is gonna kill off Mirka’s brother in a brutal and heart wrenching way.
because it always happens to me, damn it! I start liking a series, and then, soul crushing horribleness. of course, alot of that has been manga, so that may have a bearing…
sigh… Koudelka, Full Metal Alchemist, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Violinist of Hameln, Tenjo Tenge…
hell, I got a stack of Spiderman from the end of the Clone Saga which is pretty horrible.
but I digress.
Yeah, I was also wondering about the origins of this “sentimental-and-idealized-yet-ultimately-pretty-realistic portrayal of Jewish observance”, as RA put it. Although it seems more idealized than anything else to me; somehow shabbat naps never worked for me. Should’ve known right then that I wasn’t built for the whole religion thing.
And wait to prove me wrong, after posting two weeks in a row I thought, “Now there’s no way he’ll post three weeks in a row.” Yet here we are.
Right now, I’m feeling very determined to have a page posted every week without fail. We’ll see how it goes in reality. :-)
I love this comic, and I can’t wait until it comes out as a book.
Thank you!
I want to know where this sentimental-and-idealized-yet-ultimately-pretty-realistic portrayal of Jewish observance is coming from, and also the origins of your idiosyncratic transliteration system!
I think “idiosyncratic” is the kindest word you could use for it!
I was raised in a reform family. I had the kind of familiarity with Jewish observance that comes from being bar mitzvahed in a reform congregation and going to Jewish summer camp. Obviously, that taught me next-to-nothing about being frum, and nothing at all about hasidic life.
So I’m depending on books. Recently, I’ve been reading Mystics Mavericks and Merrymakers, which is an incredibly useful book for my purposes. For the past six pages of Hereville, I’ve also used information gathered from Holy Days, How To Run a Traditional Jewish Household, The First Jewish Catalog, Around Sarah’s Table, a english-yiddish dictionary, and Postville. Plus I have a growing collection of books featuring photos of Jews, I use information found with google searches, and – often the best source of info – I often phone my parents questions. (My parents have, in the last decade, become quite observant.)
With such a hodge-podge of sources, it’s no wonder my transliteration is inconsistant! (If you’d like to become a proofreader and make my transliterations consistant, there’s a free copy of the eventual printed Hereville comic in it for you!)
I’m researching and figuring things out as I go along, so I’m sure I’ll make a lot of mistakes. (One of my early publicity drawings of Mirka shows her in a short-sleeve dress; after reading Mystics, Mavericks and Merrymakers, I realized that she’d never wear an outfit that left her elbows bare. Oops!)
As for Hereville being idealized… you’re right, but give it time. If things go as I want them to, I’ll be producing Hereville stories for years to come.
Right now the point of view character is a child who, despite one huge tragedy (the death of her mother), lives a generally happy life, and has never not been made to feel loved and well-cared for. And she’s living in a very isolated community – Mirka, unlike most Hasidic girls her age in the real world, has never even heard a rock song or seen a television set.
As the series goes on and Mirka gets older, the view of Hasidic life in Hereville will become more complex and less sentimental.
But don’t worry, Karpad – I promise not to kill off Zizka in the next few pages!
Also I want to know when you are coming to Boston so I can invite you for Shabbot (or Shabbat, or Shabbos, or whatever.)
That’s very kind, and I’d love to. Unfortunately, I’m all the way out here in Oregon, and I don’t have any plans to be in Boston anytime in the forseeable future.
Thanks very much for your comments.
I do so love the way you stuck “the next few pages” clause in there.
just spend the next 50 pages killing off her friends and neighbors one by one brutally.
I know! you can have Mirka befriend a nice magical person (the witch for instance).
and it’ll be revealed that the witch killed Zizka to make a complex and horrific chimera.
and then Mirka kills the witch, and takes her dragonslayer sword to find a way to change Zizka back, and just when she finds it, a kindly person finds Zizka alone, and, hoping to ease the pain of being an abomination, puts him out of his misery.
yeah, I’ve been reading soul crushingly horrible stuff for a long time now. I know how it works.
you’re just building us up to tear us down! you sick, evil art drawing person!