When I finished the piece, I realized it looks a bit like Jack Pumpkinhead is a shadow. He's not! He's a good boy! I love him!

I'm traveling this week for a few days, so both Namesake and Crow Time are getting notebook illustration updates. Thanks for reading!

Because of MCAF (and work), Crow Time and Namesake will be short updates. Ozma has super long hair, and these little crows are experts!

Here are the details for the festival, for anybody who would like to attend :

https://www.fbdm-mcaf.ca/

Yes! Yes it's the scene from the Oz books where Tip gets changed back to Ozma! I'm so AMPED to draw this!!

If the scene or the characters in it look familiar, this is another point of view of a scene we saw in the Emily Gale chapter. Her twin became Mombi, Mombi held Ozma / Tip prisoner, and now she got caught by Glinda the Good Witch of the South, along with the Glinda guards, that we saw in like....Chapter 8? Wow!

Here are some page references :

https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/stop-right-there -- The Glinda Guards

https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/the-birth-of-mombi

https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/the-messenger

https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/seeing-stars

-- Important bits from Mombi's point of view!

For anybody wondering why Glinda is the Good Witch of the South, and not the Witch of the North, the South is her domain in the Oz books, the iconic 1939 MGM film combined her character with the Good Witch of the North. Book Glinda is a bit more of a wise badass than the northern versions of Glinda we can find in the MGM film or Wicked, but I love all versions of Glinda, personally! I also like that Book Glinda is associated with Red, while alternative Glindas are usually pink. That's so cute.

This is the in-between chapters art for the Calliope handbook. It's a redraw of the last page of chapter 34 (https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/just-fine) with a veneer of the Pepe Silvia meme from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."

The next update is going to be the chapter cover for chapter 35!! Woo!

AND THE WHO'S WHO IS COMPLETED!

This was a really nice experience, on top of being a nice recap before we embark on the final arc, it also allowed me to get back to a level of inking quality I was comfortable with.

The next page will be our usual in-between-chapters illustration, followed by the cover of Chapter 35!

This final page resets where we were at :

• Emma lost a bunch of stories while fighting Ina - https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/my-own-power

• Emma almost broke down in consequence - https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/did-her-best

• Both swords were re-absorbed to save here - https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/stab

  & https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/another-stab

• Stabilizing both Emma and Warrick - https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/changed-heart

• The first Namesake offers up a faded muse heart - https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/visitor-2

• And, after listening to Emily Gale's tale and weaving some vorpal wool, the gang finds themselves in Oz, specifically, Elaine and Trinket find themselves also with a version of Ozma that is also very intrigued by all the Goblin market receipts she seems to have : https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/nearby & https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/just-fine

This conversation with Ozma is where chapter 35 will open.

ONE PAGE LEFT!

This page is less character-description-y than the others, and more like a re-iteration of the factions fighting each other for the power within the universe (as described on this page : https://www.namesakecomic.com/comic/questions-for-adora-what-factions-are-in-play). But it's also an excuse to show off a few set pieces that feel like characters because of how iconic they are. The tornado, Toto, the yellow brick road, and the Emerald City all appear several times in Namesake without really having lines or being actual characters.

Oz is a place where Ozma, Dorothy and Emma Crewe all felt safe in. While it is their refuge, it's also a location all three of them didn't have complete control over. Ozma is the princess of Oz, but Oz is something her Calliope form set up, and it can be modified by characters such as Mombi. Dorothy felt at home in Oz, to a point where she brought her family over, but the land's immortality magic didn't work on her. Emma feels safe there, but her first and second trip to Oz where accidental, in moments where she lost control of her magic.

Drawing the Emerald City was interesting, because I wanted to draw it in a way that made it seem like a real city, but also in a way where it mixed the round rooftops designs of the W. W. Denslow illustrations with the iconic spires of the MGM movie without looking like I drew a bunch of butts and upside down test tubes. I think I finally mastered a look I liked in the Emily Gale chapter, my third time illustrating the city!

I recently watched a video about folks adapting the Wizard of Oz movie for the Vegas Sphere that briefly talks about how weird extending the Emerald City and backgrounds to fit the Sphere made everything look off, and it reminded me of the process I went through to draw the Emerald city, so I wanted to talk about it! I also gave Oz a lot of rolling hills and little woods, so it would look really different to Dorothy if she got used to Kansas fields. Kansas is pretty gorgeous, as is a lot of the natural American landscape, so it's probably harder to impress Dorothy than we assume.

Here is the video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgEmsKtdsRs