A Page a Day! The Unwritten #1, Page 3

I wanted to post one of the early pages from The Unwritten, and this one got me thinking about what we went through on the opening of the series to strike the tone we wanted. Our initial idea was to open the book with three pages of prose from the last Tommy Taylor book but we were worried that would be a little dry for some readers and might scare them off. So the challenge became to create a feel of a book but still have it work as a comic page.

If I can gather the material together, I’m going to do a longer post next week and show the whole opening and how we arrived at what we did. For now I’ll just put up my original layout for this page of art.