First I went to meet with a couple of people at Refugee Radio to find out how they work. Maybe I could show a true life story of difficulties faced, and how people are being helped.  But as I thought about it, I wanted to aim for persuading the average person to get involved and with each draft I simplified the scenario to make this message clear. As it happens, I have a little experience with community radio myself (though my programmes only featured enjoyable chats with musicians) and the inset portrays my own initial reaction to being asked! I wanted to show it's not really too hard. 
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Having worked out a rough layout, this still kept changing as I tried to draft a final version to ink: it didn't work to show all the tech gear that's really there, and I even hid the presenter's mic as it just looked too messy with two. I hope the background figures convey the idea of a listening audience. This wasn't made any easier by thinking about the importance of doing it really well, especially considering it would sit alongside contributions from some truly great artists...

I won't go into the difficulties of scanning watercolour without it ending up either too light or too dark, with colours nothing like the original. Suffice it to say final tweaks took an absurd number of extra hours. But I made the deadline today, and am looking forward to seeing it with everyone else's beautiful work up on the website soon and printed in a book after that. 

Update 21 February: the website is now live at http://drawthelinecomics.com/ Check it out! 

I'm outing myself here in the hope this will help keep it going: I've started drafting a graphic novel, based on a 220 page book written in 1897, with hardly any conversation to quote and not much in the way of suspenseful story arc either.

T.H. Holding combined two of his great passions -- cycling and camping -- and set out to try a short tour by bicycle in Ireland. He went with three friends, carrying a tent he'd made himself, although only two of the four rode machines we would recognise as bikes today. 

It's full of detailed observations and social history, not to mention the fascinating differences in how camping was done, told in a firmly idiosyncratic author's voice which I am using exclusively for the text. 

This has been in my head for the past two or three years, though I honestly had no idea of how I could possibly do it when I first thought of it, and probably still don't, really. But I'm going for it anyway, because I'm excited by it and want this story to be told.

I'm grateful to the Camping and Caravanning Club's archivist, mentioned in previous post, for helpful additional material.