The Bwbach - Page 69 of the cartoon about Phill from GCHQ - a free comic that I have been working on since September 2016.
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Introduction to this weeks page
Women... When I began making this comic it was about a lonely and neurotic man. On page 18 I invented a female caretaker... originally I envisioned her as a man, but going through a lot of ideas for the character I suddenly made a drawing of a woman with bob cut and a solemn look, and I decided to use her. On page 22 the next lady arrives, the infantile, but charismatic Gwendolyn, and six pages later the callous murder-agent from MI6, Judith Gunn, is developed extensively. I have had a lot of fun with these characters and in some ways they outshine their male counterparts.
We have heard a lot about Gwendolyns grandmother, mother and foster mother (Eileen), but until now we have only had hints about her life. Now after a small argument we learn that she has other powers than just dominating her surroundings which mainly comprises of her devoted acolytes, Morty, Vincent, Loretta... and Phill.
Happy reading.
Translations
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Proof of reading (at my most pedantic, because I couldn't find any mistakes at first reading):
"Pissed": Pissed off in proper UK English. Pissed means drunk, no matter what they say in the colonies.
"It is wise listening": It is wise to listen (I think.)
In the "colony" of Canada too, we say both "pissed" and "pissed off" to mean angry.
And "pissed" also mean drunk, as in Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Wiktionary
Being a legitimate Englishman, I do concur with this statement.
OK, case closed. The text has been updated to: pissed off.
I better be on the safe side. Can't alcoshame these ingenious house deities.
Drunk little deities would be bacchuli. I made that up.
And a good word it is. The God of wine doesn't seem to have any smaller versions of himself, until now! Just like Totoro have smaller versions of himself.
Hilarious... where do you get the ideas from?
Strange thing is that when a story has taken form most of the ideas is just popping up as if I was reporting some real events. I am working on the next page and the discussion will be brought to a surprising conclusion that I did not invent. It invented itself! After hearing about it, my wife is for once interested in what is happening in the comic and how my readers will react. She has that kind of humour. You guys will have to wait for the salacious details until next week.
It's great that you have had so many female characters. Comics can be a bit too male.
Yes, that is true. Most cartoonists has been men and the universes in the commercial comics have been directed at male readers. But I see that changing now. Many really good cartoonists of both sexes and many female readers too.
As I am not committed to any commercial demands I just tell stories and let the characters evolve a bit on their own. So when these interesting female characters like Judith Gunn or Eleanor Knight begin to interest me i simply use as many pages as I like to find out who they are. I try to keep it interesting and exiting of course, pushing the story ahead, but I promised myself when I started that i would allow myself to do whatever I like and let the story go wherever it wants :)
Lovely as always, I really like how you inked. The characters' expressions in this page are on point, I could understand what they are expressing even before reading the dialog.
Nice page :D I really like how speedy the dialog moves things along, from The Witch being upset that the thought of bedding her would destroy her household to the reveal of the BWBACH creatures .... all in the same page ! Really neat :D
Immensely engaging.
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Great page and detailed drawings. I wouldn't even need those descriptions :)
And yes, they do look rather pissed off :D