New Page #18!
Bea is done messing around. Alan is sick. She will save him.
What on earth is Alan so worked up about? Well, Boston just found out about some of the things Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson said about them behind their back. (They are displeased to say the least.) Benjamin Franklin in England got his hands on the papers and sent them to his comrades in Massachusetts, asking they be kept confidential. Sending such letters to Sam Adams and asking that he not print them in the newspapers is akin to asking a hungry lion to play nice with the wounded antelope sitting next to him. But do your own homework on the matter and decide for yourself whether Franklin intended the information to get out or not.
The Comic Creators for Freedom drive ended on Friday. Together, we raised $7,500! Of that total, you Dreamers brought in $1,079.42!! AMAZING!!
Thank you for your generosity in supporting such an important cause. I hope you all are enjoying your Dreamer snowball fight wallpapers! And Tamara Morris was our highest donor, donating $250 to the CCF!! She selected this page from the comic, and will be receiving the original art in the mail, as well as a signed copy of the Volume 1 reprint! Thank you, Tamara!!
As always, VOTE to preview the next page!
I put posting FanArtPollooza entries on hold until after the CCF drive wrapped up. But we’ve had some amazing entries roll in. Check them out below the cut. Remember, final deadline is coming up–January 31st!
I’ll post part two on Friday. So if you don’t see yours in this first batch, don’t worry! Too many to post in one update.
We’ll kick off the entries with Caitlin Willard, who wrote and recorded “You Belong to me (Dreamer Edition)“.
(She said she’ll even give an Attribution-ShareAlike license to anyone who wants to make a YouTube fan video to go with it!)
“Chase” by Ashley Sam.
“Chasing Two Rabbits” by Caitlin Willard.
(Taken from here if you don’t remember!)
“Think of Me” by TitanicGal1912.
And we have Bea & Ben in costume by Amanda Zito!
I’ll post more on Friday!
Bea, did you just…GAH!!! Whee!!! :D
And 1773 Alan reminds me of Nathan for some reason…or maybe I’m just missing Nathan too much.
Lol Bea’s face in the VI. I imagine I’d be making that face too, way things were going at the time…
My first thought after reading this was “aww are we never gonna see Nathan again?”
I miss Nathan toooo……tht’s why i’m working on a certian drawing in a moment ;D
Strong Bea is an Awesome Bea. Love those green eyes!
….and the Tea Act riots (I presume) continue. Can’t wait for the inevitable December 1773 flashback where we see Alan and Joe and some other dudes dress up as Mohawks for some party or other…..
INCENTIVE CAPTION!!!
Beatrice: “Alan, what are you doing? Don’t throw that tomato!”
Alan: “But he said Simba was a poorly constructed metaphor for the system of monarchy!”
Beatrice: “He insulted Simba? Let me at him! “
Also, Bea is totally channeling 80s action heroine of your choice, and it is awesome (I go with Linda Hamilton myself) .
When you said “80′s action heroine” for some inexplicable reason I thought of Sarah Jane Smith XD
Well, Bea IS looking for a Doctor… :P
Allow me to make another reference in honor of the 3d verision of a Disney movie I saw today….
Bea: “Alan…why did you throw a tomatoe at him?”
Alan: “He said the Beast would’ve died and Belle would’ve married Gaston in real life.”
Bea: “…Where’s a talking candlestick when you need one?”
You think this is good, wait ’til my birthday IC 5 incentives from now (february 10, and my day is the 12th)
….yeeeeaaaahhhh….bday themed captions….tht should b interesting
This is fun…. i’m having flashes of the tour I took of the coffee house in CW and talking to “the owners wife” abt politics
aww poor Bea so distraught, but it got it together when it counted! Love the VI too :)
Okay, I give up. What is the “VI”?
They mean “voting incentive.” It’s the image you’ll see if you click on the “VOTE” link, which takes you to Top Web Comics, which increases The Dreamer’s ranking, which gives us some exposure/ free promo.
Thanks, Lora. I’m going to the comic book store at the mall to pick up my copy of Volume II !
Thank you!
@Steve: I had so much trouble figuring that out too. xD. For the longest time I read it as: “To the sixth” (And then I actually started voting to see the preview and it clicked.
Good times.
Lora,
I don’t comment much, but I’ve been reading your comic for a very long time now and it is absolutely my favorite I have ever found on the web. Your dedication to it, how much life you bring to the characters (fictional and non-fictional alike), the way you incorporate real history and stick to it, and of course how amazingly beautiful the art always is – The Dreamer is simply the best. I love it, thank you for sharing it with all of us.
Congrats on raising more money than last year for the charity! So glad it was another success!
And my goodness does today’s last panel look amazing! Great job both on the art and the colors!
YAY JOHN WARREN YAY!!
…Someones Happy….;P
Who? Me? 0:)
what?! we won the war already? im confused
No, just the battle at Harlem Heights. The small victory was a big pick me up for the Continental Army who had been utterly humiliated the day before at Kip’s Bay.
After coming out of a finals-, winter-break-, and start-of-a-new-semester-induced haze, I thought you should know that these updates have been some of the highlights of my weeks. I’ve loved “meeting” the Warren family, and I’m very glad that I don’t have to wait until this issue is over to see what happens in 1776. The art has been stunning as always, of course.
Also, I just ordered the two graphic novels with the last of my textbooks! I can’t wait for them to come!
Love your lion/wounded antelope metaphor, re. Sam Adams and Hutchinson’s letters. I find the pre-war maneuvering so much more intriguing than the battles themselves (no offense to our favorite colonels and majors, of course). It was like a game of mental chess – with some marketing skills thrown in – before the guns started going off.
Congratulations on outdoing your CCF fundraising efforts last year. I was disappointed to not be able to donate this year, and will definitely be doing so next year.
What I wanted to say was that I’ve just finished watching the film ‘The Whistleblower’, and think it’s something that you (and, well, everyone) should see, if you haven’t already – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896872/ .