Chapter 12: Tainted Rage
Apr 18, 2021
Hello everyone,
It is with great pleasure that I am concluding today my own graphic novel Shades of Men.
We have reached 12 chapters, 135 pages, approximately 1350 hours of drawing and it is time to end this adventure. To soften the landing this week, you got fifteen pages in this chapter instead of eleven!
This is it.
The end!
I started drawing Shades Of Men in August 2012. A little less than 9 years ago.
I knew from the very start that it would take me a long time to finish as I had planned for that many pages. However, I thought it would take me 3 years to complete max. I simply tripled that.
Even tough the project did not create the following I was hoping for, the goal was to get the story out of my system and share it to the world. I can happily say that I succeeded in that regard.
So now, what is the plan?
Print the damn thing!
I'll be going over the stock of pages, spotting typos, and major art issues.
In that regard, I do not wish to redraw original content but might correct some of the major issues I noticed in early pages. I also wish to fix the font I used which changed along the way.
Feel free to share you thoughts before the final edit.
I might also translate the story into french to share with friends and family but only if I find the time.
And that's it. I'm glad I'm able to move on to various other projects without feeling guilty. I will be focusing primarily on the redesign of Inkito, my own comic hosting site powered by the Hive blockchain.
Thank you so much for following this story for all these years. I promise I'll keep on drawing!
See ya,
Jrej
Joanne Kwan
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Congrats on finishing!! It’s a great achievement and you should be proud! I’m a sucker for epilogues, but you don’t have to include one if you don’t want to! Maybe just something to show the guys are ok after the heat settles a little.
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