Check out Francesco Marciuliano’s blog Medium Large
as he looks back on twenty years of writing the Sally Forth comic strip.
It Was 20 Years Ago Today
Category: Sally Forth
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Letters – Washington Post
A reader’s response to the recent Sally Forth storyline featuring Ted’s Dad dying – from the Washington Post.
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NCS Thanks & Giving Auction
Would you like to own an original Sally Forth comic strip?
Click on image to go to the auction.
The National Cartoonists Society has partnered with Heritage Auctions for the NCS Thanks & Giving Auction. All proceeds from the auction will be sent to Direct Relief, a charity that specializes in providing humanitarian aid to victims of natural disasters. The strip offered is from Thanksgiving day, and is written by Francesco Marciuliano and drawn by yours truly, Jim Keefe.
It’s your chance to get some comic art AND support a good cause all at the same time! Auction ends November 30th – so check it out soon…
-Jim Keefe
UPDATE:
Many thanks! As mentioned all proceeds from the auction will be sent to Direct Relief.
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Ted’s Dad Dies
A little behind the scenes on today’s Sally Forth strip.
First, Francesco Marciuliano’s script for this strip.
Monday
Scene: ONE PANEL. Interior, Hospital Hallway. Same Day. Long shot down the Palliative Wing Hallway. In the distance we see Ted and his mom hugging. They are crying but we don’t see really see their faces or any cartoon tears.
The decision for the halo of light around Ted and his Mother was decided on as I had already done a hallway scene on October 22 where I tried to convey how you can feel all alone in a crowded hallway.
For the November 6th strip with Ted and his Mom I didn’t want to show the hallway completely empty (hospitals never are), but at the same time how the rest of the world goes away at that moment.
Hopefully it read that way for the readers as well.
Francesco has given me a lot of leeway on how to portray these scenes throughout.
I appreciate the trust he has in me in doing so, and hope the decisions I made in the illustrations did the story he beautifully crafted justice.
-Jim Keefe
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Southwest Journal Interview
Here’s an interview I did recently for our neighborhood paper the Southwest Journal focusing on how I reference local locations for use in the Sally Forth strip.
On the Comics Page, Scenes from Minneapolis
For the blog post where I used Digs Studio for reference, check out:
Scouting Locations – Small Wonders Gift Shop
For Comic College check out:
Comic Book College is Moving
Other locations around Minneapolis I’ve used include…
That’s all the locations I could think of off the top of my head. If I remember more I’ll be sure to post them.
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