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. It took about six months including a long break in the middle.
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 pencillin, inking, lettering, and scanning, felt more like executing tasks — and I kept counting the pages left. I didn't understand what comics were before I tried to make one.
Anyway, eventually I got it finished. The art isn't slick but the story has a beginning, middle, and end. You can read it on GlobalComix:
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