Hello Again

Hm. I haven’t posted here in quite a while. In an attempt to post here more often, I am going to broaden the category of media I shall post here. It will include scribbles (drawings).

Here is one (along with a bit of background information) I have posted elsewhere already, but it’s a funny little hello.

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Cover Art for Speaker for the Dead Issue #1. *1

So a couple days ago I got the first issue of the new comic book adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Speaker for the Dead.  If you have no idea what I’m talking about: heard of Ender’s Game?  No?  Stop reading this and go read it.  It’s an awesome book.  Assuming you like science fiction.  And if you’ve read Ender’s Game and haven’t read Speaker for the Dead – that’s okay.  They’re very different books but you might appreciate this anyway since you know who Ender is.

Back to the point: My initial reaction to the cover of the first issue of Speaker for the Dead was: oh my God, Ender Wiggin has a beard. He has a beard. For some reason, it kind of blew my mind.  Now here we get into the part where a reader’s mental image and an artist’s mental image don’t always coincide.  In fact, they usually don’t.  Personally, I always imagined Ender as being very young looking, clean cut, straight edge and what not, even into his older years.  Maybe a little bit of scruff or something when he was much older, but certainly not the full blown beard he’s got here!

Anyway, I was remarking how odd it seemed to me – the fact that Ender Wiggin had facial hair (yes, I’m going to keep saying it – maybe if I keep saying it I will desensitize myself to it) – to a friend.  And finally I linked him the image to your left.  His response, and I quote, “Ender is quite stubbly. Can I call him Captain Stubbles?”  And I definitely could not read the next couple panels where Ender was talking because I kept looking at the text, and then looking at his face and bursting out into a fit of giggles.

And so, Ender Wiggin in Speaker for the Dead became Captain Stubbles.  See image below to witness what happens when I get “inspired” nowadays.

CAPTAIN STUBBLES!

I am currently working on a larger piece of… floating heads of characters spanning across the Ender and Shadow series.   Thanks for reading and I post again soon.

*1. By Giuseppe Camuncoli, Danny Miki and Brad Anderson. Image source from TFAW.com (Proper citation coming soon)

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