It’s been a few days, Papercutz People, and I’m happy to report that we’ve haven’t seen any further signs of our little friend, the water bug. He boldly strode into the Papercutz editorial offices and scurried under some big wooden shelves used to store artwork and stuff, and hasn’t been seen since. As I type this, I keep glancing over to see if I can spot ‘im, but no such luck. The Mysterious Ortho, the NBM Art Director I share an office with, believes our little friend probably sneaked into my bag and made his way to my home, but I’ve seen no evidence of that — yet.

I also promised to post a few sample pages of CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED DELUXE #4 “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” here on the Papercutz Blog to show off Séverine Lefèbvre’s beautiful artwork, but I’m afraid that’ll have to wait just one more day. Without Manly Micheal Petranek to help me with all things computer-related, I’m afraid I’ll post the wrong pages!

But until then, I thought you might enjoy these comments from Séverine Lefèbvre herself…

I was very taken with the cartoon adaptation of Tom Sawyer when I was 10 years old, and then by Mark Twain’s novel. I’d never imagined drawing my own Tom Sawyer one day! The principal difficulty lay in the necessity, from a graphics standpoint, of getting detached from the character’s image in the cartoon in order to make him my own. It was difficult at first, but you have to get into your characters’ skin, to absorb the story into yourself, and let the magic of drawing take place—

If all goes well, we’ll take a peek at some of that magic tomorrow!