Begun on 24-Hour Comic Book Day 2005, fully lettered and penciled, and 50% inked, by the end of that 24-hour period; and finished in watercolor in July 2005. A Drowned Town Press production.
In June and July 2003, my love and I travelled to Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. All of these countries were, briefly, independent states between the World Wars, after centuries of being dominated by the Germans, Russians, and Swedes. During WWII, the Soviet Union annexed them all. They regained their independence around 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
See mediaeval towers, 18th-century palaces, impoverished farms, pagan sculpture-gardens, and an old Soviet missile silo. See storks, swallows, gulls, crows, ducks, herons, robins...and a mystery bird that most of the locals we asked couldn't identify.
Art © 2005 by E. J. Barnes. Pictured sample: Page 12.
Full-sized (6 5/8" x 10 ¼"), 24-page color comic with color covers, $3.95 USD, plus $1.50 shipping within USA.