Redrawing page 60

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Jimmy Jay is unrecognizable on page 60. That’s him on the left. He’s cute in an ugly way, but it takes a stretch of the imagination to accept him as the real Jimmy Jay. I don’t want the reader to start wondering who this new character is. The corrected Jimmy is on the right.

When I drew this page, I was going through “rough inking madness” and now I have to redo the linework, at least for Jimmy and Dylan. The background can remain rough. I have several more pages that use heavy outlines.

Buddy wants to be family, revised

Here’s yet another version of “Buddy wants to be part of the family.” In the previous version Momma Jay looked like she came from an alternate Jaybird universe. I liked her weird new look, but she didn’t look like the Momma Jay in the rest of the book. I’m going to look at these pictures tomorrow with fresh eyes.