a girl named sue

We've been working on a different challenge recently at Binary Fable. Instead of animation, we decided to turn our hands to a graphic short story - just for the fun! Jonathan Cape, Comica and The Observer are running their graphic short story competition for the third year and we thought we'd enter. After all, it's just like a storyboard, isn't it?!

Well, no. It was good practice in visual storytelling, but the need to lay out each page beautifully and the knowledge that there would be no movement in the finished version made this a very different discipline to storyboarding. Entertaining, though!

Here's our first panel as a teaser: