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Well, the deadline for the Fan Art contest is finally here!
This year’s theme was Graphic Novel #2- so you had to pull your inspiration from some event in the new Dreamer Volume! There is one Grand Prize winner, and three runners up.
Mike and I sat on the couch in deadlock for an hour. There were too many great ones to pick. This was really, really hard, but we had to make a choice…
So without further ado, the winners are…!
The Grand Prize Winner goes to Deb Low!
This beautiful piece caught me off guard when I first saw it. It wasn’t an obvious answer to the contest. It’s sweet, it’s honest, it’s moving, it tells a story. What if John knew what was going on with Bea? Deb seems to think he’d care.
Congrats, Deb! You’ll be receiving a signed copy of The Dreamer Volume 2, with a personalized sketch inside of your favorite character! A signed Dreamer Print of your choice! A set of Dreamer Chibi Magnets! And all four of the Dreamer Short Story downloads!
And there are three runners up. You’ll each receive a signed copy of the A Providential Hello comic, a set of Dreamer Chibi Magnets, and one of the Dreamer Short Story downloads of your choice!
Runners up are:
“Past the Dancing Days” by Midenian-Lostie! This story really captures what is going on inside of poor Bea’s head. Wonderful character insight here!
“The Pain of War” by Nicole Ales! This entry was Mike’s pick! He loves how vibrant it is, it jumped out among the other entries. Beautiful face, also!
Bea Halloween Dance Plushy by Escere! I want one. Need I say more?
Thanks for another fantastic contest this year! Congrats to all the winners! You didn’t make it easy to pick!!
(Winners, I’ll be contacting you soon to get you your prizes.)
Bea! So eloquent! Wow I love 18th century Bea. She’s epic! And look at them blush!!! <3 Aww cuteness overload!
VI: AAHHHHHH!!!!!
And congrats to the winners! :D
^_^ I thought more folks would be excited about the VI. They will be… they will be.
Hehe. I was screaming for two reasons.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!
…was my exact reaction. Then I texted my best friend with that and freaked her out. :P
Congrats on the winner of the contest. I would have to agree with Caera about the 18th Century Bea. What I am certainly glad about is we finally see the relationship of Alan and 18th Century Bea.
Wow congrats to the winners! I have to agree all the entries were really good!! I have no idea how you managed to pick!
I loved this update, Bea and Alan are so cute together and it’s nice to see some of their relationship before things got too crazy and revolutionary.
Also the VI looks a little scary….not sure I am looking forward to the update lol but what the heck, bring it on :)
I LOL’d at your comment that the VI looked scary. Then had to read it aloud to Mike so he knew what I was laughing about.
*No Continental Soldiers were hurt in the making of this comic*
haha good to know!
Wow, she certainly knows how to speechify. No wonder he likes her. What I really love, though, is the shoeshine man’s knowing grin. No doubt he’s thinking of his man Alan getting along with Bea…..
And a big congrats to Deb (called it!) and all the other winners. Good job guys. (*assorted grumblings*)
INCENTIVE CAPTION!!!
Alan: “Okay, I really don’t think pulling there is–”
Patient: “ GAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!! “
I wanna congrats the winners with the hard work and time and it sure do not look good in VI and prey to God that Alan will be okay.
Oooooooh boy! This pretty much sums up my reaction: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a31/debbielolah/reaction.jpg But I must also add there was a lot of jumping around involved after that.
Eep, thank you so much!!
I love how Alan looks at Bea in the 4th panel. So much of awe at the beautiful young lady. And the last panel! ALL THE FEELINGS. I love silent emotion filled moments! :D
I imagine there was also some sort of high-pitched squealing involved, too. :-)
Ha, ha! You need to make a 24 hour comic of yourself reading The Dreamer. These reaction drawings are just too cute. (Or sad, as the case may be.)
CONGRATS! And thanks for a lovely, moving piece of art!
I’ve been meaning to add my congratulations on your win, as well. I always loved that little exchange between John and Bea, where he shows some unexpected (to us) concern – you expanded on that beautifully!
Wonder how Bea will get along with this next Cousin John…
There are hints at how she feels about him in the Quarter of Prattlers story…!
Thanks! Sometimes I come back on here and I see the announcement and it STILL gives me the “Oh my gosh, this is real!” moment. :*)
Aww, lookit those two, all blushing and adorable. I love this page.
Also, love the contest winners’ pieces! I have to agree with you on the grand prize winner, Lora. I had some sort of physical reaction in my gut when I saw it– really moving! But anyway, congrats, contest winners! Y’all are awesome.
I kept coming back to that one, too!
Blushing all around in this update!
I must say, 18th century Bea is pretty sharp.
I love blushing-Alan in the third panel. And both of them blushing in the last – though I bet part of Bea’s blush is due to his compliment regarding her intellectual observations. Most 18th century women weren’t expected to, you know, have opinions?
American women were known for having them. It surprised the British soldiers.
During the non-importation agreements the women really were the backbone of the boycotts–changing the ways they ran their homes. Using homespun wool instead of imported cloth, making herbal teas to replace their beloved black tea, they even had protests on the Boston Commons where they would all bring their spinning wheels and make their own cloth right there as a demonstration. Go, ladies!
Didn’t know that! Though it’s amazing to think how much opinions of women’s intellectual abilities changed just within fifty or so years of the Revolution. Think of what Victorian, and then Gilded Age society was like! Woman’s sphere my you-know-what!
I thought the Victorian and Gilded Ages took place at about the same time, instead of one after the other. You’re right, though, and it’s ironic that the “Victorian Age” was named after a woman. As for the Gilded age, it should have been called the “Gilded Cage” as far as women were concerned. The well-to-do ones, anyway.
Congrats to Deb Low! It’s a beautiful piece! :D
Congarts everyone!!!!
And I love this page……but I like the VI more…Hiya Jack
Congrats to the winners for the Fan Art Palooza!
And, may I just say this: Bea…you summed up what I want in a man. Right there.
Eek, look at that knife in the VI! I love seeing the backstory for Bea and Alan (all that stuff she’s forgotten)–but the back of my mind is still worried about the present-day Alan (you know what I mean) lying on the floor. I hope Bea finds help soon! But uh…I hope that knife is not meant for Alan.
“Hello, my name is John Warren. You punched me in the nose when I was six. Prepare to die.”
ha ha ha ha ha!
OMG! *LIKE!!!!!*
Ha ha! That is too good! Lol!
John: “I swore I would have my revenge someday. That day has arrived! Muahaha!”
Someone needs to make this the next entry for this year’s Fan Art Palooza in the fall! Perhaps it will be the Dreamer behind the scenes gag page!
Awwww, they’re so cute when they blush. ;)
Can’t wait to see more on the joys of old school medicine. Well, okay, not really ‘joys,’ but I’m a bit of a health science nerd. And a dork about history. So this will be putting together a couple of my interests! I love this Bea! She’s fiesty and intelligent.
Umm, I think in the VI an amputation is taking place. The Dr. is cutting away the cloth to clear the wound area. The knife is actually a suture knife. It was used to cut away the nerves, muscles, and tendons before taking the bone saw and hacking off the limb. The limb would then be discarded in a basket with other such victims. All done of course, without anesthesia.
So, I hope I did not give anybody nightmares!
And I think I just saw Aunt Mary in the background!
Then perhaps this took place after the battles of Lexington and Concord… Hmmm. I don’t know. Mystery. I guess we will see on Wednesday.
Was John Warren at Lexington & Concord? According to his diary (which I got to hold in my own two hands!) he was not.
His militia mustered in Salem, but couldn’t make up their mind if they should go or not. Started out several times then turned back and never did see fighting that day.
I can understand John’s militia being hesitant when you consider what they’d be going up against!
Well, he lived all the way out in Salem, that’s why. It was a distance hesitation- “will we make it?” – not a lack of courage hesitation.
I love all the behind-the-scenes commentary like this. It feels like these are people you know in real life, Lora, and you’re just telling us about them because you think we’d find them interesting (and we do!)
I feel like I know them by now, Rose! I love Joseph Warren. My goal with The Dreamer was to bring him back into the awareness of my readers. He was always the hidden motivation for the choices Alan made, all series until now. But in this issue, you finally get to meet him and the rest of the family!
Just checked a map of that area. Yes, that would be a considerable distance to travel on foot within a short amount of time, such as what the militiamen had that morning. But I certainly wasn’t questioning their courage. I guess what I meant to say is that the thought of taking on the armed forces of the British Empire must have made even the bravest Patriots briefly pause to consider what they were really getting into. Then they picked up their muskets and set out to fight anyway. Now that took guts!
If you’re really interested in this, read the book Paul Revere’s Ride. Fantastic, and thoroughly researched. Fisher talks about all the different militias that responded, and how far they traveled from, and all of that. So well documented. He’s my favorite historian, I can’t recommend it highly enough.
I’ll do that first chance I get. It looks like Alan would have also had to cover a bit of ground from Roxbury to Lexington, assuming that’s where he started from that day. But then I presume he still had a horse by then. He WAS there, wasn’t he? Because he once told Knowlton “I remember Lexington”.
Speaking of Paul Revere, did he really hang those signal lanterns in the church window or was that someone else?
He was the one who had someone else do it. You can read about it in that book!
The Roxbury militia got there around noon I think. Totally walkable! I mean by 18th-century standards not today. (Lazy Americans.)
It took that long not because of the distance but because they didn’t get the news any earlier. Paul Revere went the other way around and Roxbury was on William Dawes’ route, which wasn’t quite as effective… (He is buried along the Freedom Trail. I got to visit his grave when I was in Boston!)
I did not know that was Alan at first in VI