These panels are from pages 14 and 15. It's Friday afternoon, and Fred and Elizabeth McGreevy have been fighting for most of the week. They've passed through the angry, frustrating, and awkward phases after their argument. And now they're each trying to figure out how to make it up to the other.
Elizabeth is doing so from home:
Fred, on the other hand, is doing his cogitating at work (it's hard to be productive when you're distracted):
These panels are from two of my absolute favorite pages of "Saturday". I love them because we get to see how Fred and Elizabeth's minds work. India's imagination, after all, had to come from somewhere. I also like that Fred and Elizabeth clearly like each other. A lot. But they're not perfect. They're humans, prone to the same mistakes and lifelong battles with pride and idiocy as the rest of us.
But mostly I like these pages because of the slightly crazy ideas both Fred and Elizabeth come up with as part of their making-up strategies. Of course, you'll have to wait for the book in order to see what they come up with.
Hey, speaking of the book: I'm currently working on page 29. Again, I think there will be 34 pages total. That's right around 85 percent. I'll have some editing to do after that. And the cover. And probably a laundry list of other elements. But I'm getting closer to finishing, which means you're closer to reading it. And I can't wait for both.
Cheers.
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