Artist’s notes:  The pitfalls of rushing a book out quickly; Bunny is missing her entire bottom on the last panel of page 7.  WHY??  I think a speech bubble was supposed to be there, I don’t know.  I could have at least drawn Dean’s head or something, but I’m sure it was meant to be covered up.  Someday I’ll fix that (and who knows what the speech bubble was supposed to say).

MOIRES:  Ah, lovely moires!  Because Night is falling during the events of #7, it was the first issue of CS where I used gradient tonal patterns in the background.  I always backed off on using tones to make really clear, readable black/white art and also for expediency (Fairer Than was usually the only character or object with tone in my pages so that she could stand out.  Also, she is a redhead.  Is that not apparent with a ‘gray’ tone? ).

However, when a tone pattern made up of beautiful dots (for printing purposes), is reduced to a smaller image via the computer, they become dots shmooshed together that form Crosses, and then the crosses shmoosh together and form Diamonds, and then the diamonds shmoosh and become Dorothy’s Gingham Dress Patterns.

So anyone who does not personally own a copy of CS #7, please believe me when I say that I did not, on purpose, thought it would be lovely to throw patterns of Gingham in the backgrounds of these very serious and anticipatory scenes.

Enjoy!!!

~~~eeeee (who believes there might be a very complicated tutorial somewhere, on how to deal with reducing tonal patterns so Gingham’ing doesn’t result.  Or maybe not).