December 2025
The story is about a wildlife photography couple who find themselves trapped in the wilderness.
Hergé spent roughly a week per page on a Tintin album. Glyn Dillon spent four years on two hundred pages of The Nao of Brown. Little Eagle Down is twenty pages, black and white.
After the first twelve pages I just couldn't pick it up again. Somehow I'd had enough of it. I loved the story-writing, thumbnailing, and rough pencilling. These steps were free and creative. However the stages after that: the tight pencilling, inking, lettering, and scanning, sometimes felt more like transcription than discovery — I kept counting the pages left.
I didn't understand what comics were before I tried to make one. It took about seven months, including a long break in the middle. You can read it on GlobalComix:
