This beautiful site linked to my “eating mermaid” verse today. As a result, I’ve just spent an indeterminable amount of time reading the whole thing–well, up to the present. It updates three times a week, and I can tell I will be wearing out a path to its door. The link up there goes to the first page; follow it. You will find a literal mermaid and one or more figurative cuttlefish, hiding in their ink.
It also looks like they have an entire community commenting, but if I dive in there, I’ll likely never be seen again.
Do me a favor. Don’t sing for me. Don’t tell me you all already knew about this gem, but didn’t tell me. Let me think it was my own discovery. A year or so after I might have.
Oh my. This is going to take some time. I don’t know whether to thank you or curse you.
Thanks to you and Warren on this find. It’s going into my (admittedly large) collection of webcomic links to keep up on.
Strangely enough, I just found that place m’self about a week ago. I’m all caught up with the story now, but it took a while.
Spellbinding. That’s all I’ll say.
Well, I’m hooked. Anything with the name Mark Twain and Riverboat had me at hello. Now I can’t wait until the next installment.
Sailor Twain has a fairly well evolved ecosystem of followers, and there are probably about ten lurkers for each active commenter – at least – but I wouldn’t have thought mentioning the ‘eating mermaid’ link there would have brought enough of a blip to be noticed.
I’ve been reading the hell out of that site for the last year plus, and it simply never occurred to me that it would be of interest to the Digital Cuttlefish – after all, South is a freshwater mermaid.
But that ‘eating mermaid’ verse got me thinking about the overlap, and the rest is, apparently, herstory.
I thank you, Warren (how did I leave that part out of my post? unforgivable!)–I am always in awe of an artist and storyteller, and I am enjoying Sailor Twain immensely. Looks (from number of outgoing clicks) like at least a few others are as well! Statcounter says 101 clicks from here to there so far today–wordpress stats says 43. They always disagree.
Most welcome. Glad you and others are enjoying the read. For me, part of the fun is the story – and the other part is Mark Siegel’s choice to do it all in charcoal. That’s a hell of hard medium to work in, particularly with any subtlety.
Oh, and there are some panels where the framing is heavily reminiscent of what Gregg Toland did when he shot Citizen Kane, which is a movie I’ve watched quite a few times – and still get something new from each time I see it.