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Getting Unstuck

6/11/2018

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I admit it. I got really, really stuck - to the point where I'd stopped working on this for a couple of months (!!) - all because of the beginning of the second sentence to the right. I so wanted to show my characters seeing Castlebar from the hill. I know what road they were riding, and I followed that road on google streetview a million times trying to find a place where the town might've been seen from. 

Okay, there is the matter of 120 years having passed, but basic topography must remain, and given the town today being far bigger, it should've been even more visible. Are there trees or buildings in the way? Or....?  

Eventually I hope to go to Ireland and follow the route and see for myself, but in the meantime I went about it a different way; this is after all only a draft and will all be reviewed later. 

Another issue being the colours of the buildings. I've seen good old photos to base these panels on, but of course all in black and white. Guessing at plausible colours for the time being. 
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    What's this all about??

    I'm making a true-story graphic novel called
    ​Two Shilings a Day.


    Touring and camping with a bicycle is a common activity today but imagine the first time this was attempted, in the late 19th century, when cycles were heavy steel with just one gear, roads were unpaved, batteries and nylon and zippers didn't exist, and even outdoor activities were undertaken in woolen three-piece suits!

    Travel back in time to meet the master tailor Thomas Hiram Holding, a keen cyclist and camping enthusiast. He combined these two pastimes in 1897 when he invented a lightweight portable tent and embarked on a pioneering cycle-camping tour with three friends in Ireland.

    This graphic novel is a faithful adaptation of Holding's own book Cycle and Camp, bringing to life a time of horse-drawn mailcars, kitchens with peat fires for cooking, and farmhouses shared with cattle. Part travelogue round rural west Ireland and part how-to manual - including sewing ones own tent - his adventure is re-told entirely in his own idiosyncratic and rather opinionated words. 

    Holding’s fervent wish that anyone could now enjoy a holiday in the country without exorbitant cost proved so popular that he started a cycle-camping organisation, an organisation that became today’s Camping and Caravanning Club.

    (And, if you'd like to support this and receive ridiculously detailed behind-the-scenes updates: join me on Patreon)

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