A comic inspired by the song "spiracle" by young Austrian multi-talent Soap&Skin ([link]).
I'm making this for the Italian music magazine Mucchio Selvaggio.

A great inspiration for this, apart from the music, was the videogame The Path by indie game producer Tale of Tales [link]

This is still work in progress... since I'm curious to have some feedback while I work on it...

The grey panel in the middle part are still to be filled with drawings...

technique is my usual, backgrounds are photos (all made by me this time) and characters are drawn with real analogue ink. Everything put together, coloured and textured in photoshop. yeah!

If you're interested, you can find a character design pic here [link]

edit: changes in v2: Added the little panels in the central part (this was fun!) and tweaked a bit the balloons (thanks to *rmda for the help on this!) + some minor tweaks here and there!

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The text in the comic is taken from the lyrics of the song and freely translated into Italian, here's the original lyrics of the song:

Spiracle by Soap&Skin

When I was a child
I toyed with dirt and I fought
As a child
I killed the slugs, I bored with a bough
In their spiracle

When I was a child
Peers pushed me hard
In my head, in my neck, in my chest, in my waist, in my butt

I still beg
Please help me

When I was a child
I threw with dung as I fought
As a child
I killed all thugs and bored with a bough
In their spiracle

When I was a child
Foes pushed me hard
In my ___, in my neck, in my chest, in my waist, in my butt

I still beg
Please help me

When I was a child
I rend my tongue distraught
As a child
I killed my thoughts and bored with a bough
In my spiracle

When I was a child
Fears pushed me hard
In my head, in my neck, in my chest, in my waist
I never loved

I still beg
Please help me

I was a child
I am a child