Adaptation and conversation: two comics

I've only been getting online intermittently, and I neglected to copy the last couple comics either onto DeviantArt or onto Dreamwidth. It's far worse for my DrunkDuck TheDuck account, which I have abandoned.

Anyway, here are the last two Comix Warriors challenges, since that seems to be all I get published most weeks:

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"Five Days at Memorial: D. Robichaux's testimony" (Adapting a page from a random book; posted February 19 on Tumblr)

I literally grabbed without looking a random book that I had never read off a shelf, opened it up, and adapted the first page I opened to.

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink; pg. 246.

The characters are real people, but I didn’t have pictures of any of them but Dr Pou, and I didn’t have a lot of time; so I just cast them with “actors” like a Hollywood production. All I knew about Diane Robichaux was that she was visibly pregnant at the time. Dr Pou is pretty close to the real Dr. Pou, I think. The prosecutor in the first panel is based on a description in the book, but probably isn’t that close.

Liberties were taken. :)

This challenge was a departure not just from what I’ve been doing lately, but from what I do in the comic in general. It seemed like it was going to be quite hard, but now I’m glad I did it.

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"Secrets (You can tell me, you can tell me)" (posted on Tumblr February 26)

Promote myself?

The latest Comix Warriors challenge is to promote oneself.

I wish I felt like I have anything to promote. I only have one work on Society 6--and that's almost a year old! My deviantART prints are crap.

I think I have just managed to post to every week of Comix Warriors so far, and post nothing in weeks when there was no challenge; so I take from that that I can just barely keep a weekly deadline. Yays for me.

And my most recent personal work outside that community has been smut. Which I always feel frustrated and embarrassed by; it seems to go over like a lead balloon.