Graphic novel is finally being FINALIZED

I began finalizing my graphic novel, SUMMER TO WINTER, last week. If anyone asks, I will give 2018 as the official time I started putting the story together, but off-the-record, it is actually 2001 when I wrote down the idea.

The premise about my protagonist having a crush on her high school teacher came from a rumor when I was in high school. When I did decide to start working on my comic stories around 2001, I was still practicing writing down synopses, loglines, and "pitches" for what I thought would be short comic stories. 

Only a few years back, I was in a creative writing course for the first time and the professor taught us about summarizing our story ideas into a small paragraph and as a single sentence. So I practiced what she taught us and because I was early in my writing professionally. 

SUMMER TO WINTER is a lifetime project. It has gone through many incarnations but I am now pleased by the look it has now, which is why I can start to pin it down to what it must be. 

For those who follow me on Instagram(handdrawnbycarmenjr), you can see the story in its roughest format. Because I've posted the official 2018 pages until now, though it isn't in order, you can roughly follow most of the story. 

[2 rough sketch pages in a public library & a spoken word poet performing & talking to protagonist]

[Finalized page 8in × 11.5in Canson comic/bande dessinée/manga paper - I merged both pages since the original pages are 5.5in x 8.5in]