The Comic Idea
After 3 editions of Self Arf (La Cura per i Giorni Tristi and Gleam by myself, Once Upon a Friend with Blumello), we still wanted to participate, but we felt that the things we were preparing were a bit over-pretentious for the scope. So, we started brainstorming and we came up with Una Cosa Easy, (an easy thing).
That’s the story of three flatmates, Tazza (Cup), Boccia (Bowl) and Vaso (Vase), and their crazy idea to avoid the rent increase by inviting the landlord to dinner.
Background and videogame-y approach to it
Since it’s all in a house, and if you visited this site you got that i tend to be a big nerd in gamedev, there was a (luckily brief) moment of time in which i tried to imagine panels background by referencing some dummy levels made in unity.
So, i made some backgrounds flat and then i built some scenes.
Covers Demo
We tried to plan several covers layout (much as we did with Once Upon a Friend), thinking about the front-back continuity. These are some of the preparatory sketches.
Saucy extras
I don’t know why but at some point i wanted to include a “beat-em-up” kind of section in the story. I thought it would be fun, so we just went with it. The final idea is that the Ghost and Cup (Tazza) are playing a tekken-style game but tax-themed. So, the name of the game is “Conti e Botti 2” (Taxes and Punches or something like that.)
We had a small lore. The story is about Fiordaliso, a kind soul, who shall avenge his father by beating up people who don’t pay taxes.
There were a bunch of other extras-weird characters. These ones are some of the ones that made the cut. There’s one of them that is really IMHO peak design. Dinomauro, the guy with the T-rex suit.
Some pages
Here they are, in all their glory! This level of weird is but the iceberg peak, the craziness that unfolds during the story is truly remarkable!
