{"id":3411,"date":"2013-06-02T23:56:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T04:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2013-06-02T23:56:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T04:56:25","slug":"winter-fantasy-page-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/3411\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Fantasy Page 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we begin with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\" target=\"_blank\">page 1 of Winter Fantasy<\/a>. This vignette is the first to feature a main character. Normally, I use the vignettes to tell stories of side characters, but I wanted to show some of what is going on inside of Blaise&#8217;s head at this moment. His head is filled with bubbles and streamers as he delights in his new-found love. With such thoughts, it was only fitting that the vignette be\u00a0a musical number.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, a musical number. I wanted to see if I could pull off a musical number in a comic format. To do that, I recruited\u00a0Julie Wright. She is an amazing artist who is the colorist for <a href=\"http:\/\/thedreamercomic.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Dreamer<\/a> as well as one of the creators of <a href=\"http:\/\/ianua.smackjeeves.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ianua<\/a>. She rose to the challenge and the art she produced is breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p>The melody I&#8217;ve chosen for Blaise&#8217;s love song is Aupr\u00e8s de ma Blonde, a traditional French song that dates back to the 18th century. It&#8217;s a drinking song that then became a marching song. Leave it to Blaise to make a drinking song into his love song. The most endearing version of this song I could find is by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f0FvI67-Cys\" target=\"_blank\">nondepouk<\/a> on YouTube. It&#8217;s fantastically sweet and simple &#8211; one man with a guitar, which is how I figure they would have sung it on the frontier.<\/p>\n<p>To see a preview of the next page, please <a href=\"http:\/\/topwebcomics.com\/vote\/11790\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">vote for Snow by Night<\/a> on Top Web Comics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we begin with page 1 of Winter Fantasy. This vignette is the first to feature a main character. Normally, I use the vignettes to tell stories of side characters, but I wanted to show some of what is going on inside of Blaise&#8217;s head at this moment. His head is filled with bubbles and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-page","category-vignette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions\/3415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}