Snow by Night

The Upper Country is big sky country, and it made quite the impression on the voyageurs who ventured that deep into the continental interior. Peyre echoes their awe in Page 6 of A Life So Free. You may have noticed that I changed the style of the caption boxes for this vignette. The drop shadows were causing issues in Illustrator so I switched them over to a standard stroke behind the fill. I think it looks cleaner. As always, to see a preview of the next page, please vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

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Peyre reveals his generosity on Page 5 of A Life So Free. The wealth obtained by the voyageurs and the coureur des bois were enormous. Yet many of them died impoverished. To see a preview of the next page, please vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

The SpiderForest webcomic of the week is Snow by Night! Hey, that’s us. It’s a great comic, if we say so ourselves. You should totally read it.

If you’re visiting us for the first time on a referral from one of the other webcomics in SpiderForest, welcome! We’re glad you can came by to visit. We’re in the middle of a vignette at the moment. These are short stories by a guest artist we run after each chapter. This one is drawn by Minuiko and tells the story of a voyageur and his love of the wilderness of the Upper Country.

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Almanac References: gambling hells, tomahawks

Peyre and the other voyageurs reach the nations of the Sweet Seas (the Great Lakes) in Page 4 of A Life So Free. To see a preview of the next page (and some doggies!), please vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

The SpiderForest comic of the week is Chirault by Thane. This fantasy comic about curses, demons, and the imminent end of the world started in 2007 so there’s a vast archive. Plenty of entertainment for you!

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Peyre explains his love for the life of a voyageur in Page 3 of A Life So Free. The voyageurs were the long-haul truckers of colonial French Canada. They paddled canoes loaded with trade goods from Montreal to the native towns on the Great Lakes then made the return trip laden with furs. They were strong men used to adversity and were not a breed to be trifled with lightly. To see a preview of page 4, please vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

This weekend, Brittany and I will be attending NekoCon in Hampton Roads, Va. Come by and see us. We’ll be bringing books, prints, and buttons, as well as friendly chatter and some tall tales.

Don’t forget to check out Sunset Grill when you get a chance. It reminds me of Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina. And that’s a good thing.

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References: Voyageurs

We discover the contents of Bertrande’s late husband’s letter in A Life So Free page 2. He was a voyageur — one of the canoe men that paddle from Aradie to the distant native nations of the Upper Country. It’s a dangerous life but a profitable one. To see a peek at page 3, please vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

This week’s SpiderForest comic of the week is Sunset Grill. This sci-fi adventure set several centuries in the future centers around the patrons of the Sunset Grill, a bar on the shady side of a run-down and corrupt city. Give this non-linear story a read when you have a moment.

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On Page 6 of Winter Fantasy, Blaise and Snow-by-Night leap from the moon to land atop the Crescent Falls, one of greatest natural wonders of Everique. The Crescent Falls will be the subject of this week’s almanac entry.

To see the fate of the two as they plunge over the falls, please vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comic.

Eric

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Even the heavens are not safe from Blaise’s imagination as seen on Page 5 of Winter Fantasy. To see what fantastic natural wonder Blaise visits next, please vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

Brittany and I just got back from Anime Mid-Atlantic a few hours ago. The 3-hour drive took 5 because of horrible traffic the entire way home. I’ll upload a con report on our Facebook page in the next couple of days.

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Blaise and Snow-by-Night dance on top of Temple of Giavere on Page 4 of Winter Fantasy. Julie Wright once again works her magic. To see one of my favorite panels of this vignette, please vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comics.

Brittany and I will be at Anime Mid-Atlantic this weekend. Come by and say hello if you’l be there.

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