Here's one of my attempts at making an assembled comics panel from a spot in the Ardath narrative. I'm also working on lettering. There weren't any small computers to do graphics in 1976 and all comics lettering was done (as incredible it seems to us now) by hand. Here I am using the "tall capitals" typeface used by the famous Winsor McKay in his "Little Nemo" comic fantasy epic. But I didn't put the word balloon in. Interestingly that "tall handwritten" typeface made a comeback a couple of years ago as a computer typeface and it showed up everywhere from newspaper ads to billboards.
In this panel Khosrul the Prophet harangues the King on his throne. (Not a great idea, but Khosrul got away with it for a while.) The black legs and the stylized lion are sculptures and the stairs are strewn with red rose petals.
Ink and watercolor on sketchbook page, 5" x 8", 1976. Click for closer view.
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