The Halcyon Years “Sleeping Dark Things” – (2001)

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The Halcyon Years was a series of short infinite canvas comics, some of which included early experiments with interactive elements.

This installment was a typical vertical scroller, but it was constructed in reverse like the previous HY installment “Go Figure”.

I came across some lovely photos at abandoned-places.com and started to use Poser to constructs scenes with skeletons in them. Each one was built with no particular idea in mind, and after about 10 of them I set out to tie them into a narrative. I had to make a few more in order to fill in gaps and then (after getting permission to use the original photos) built it into a comic.

Also, this later became a Synesthesia Drive-In installment with the addition of a musical translation by Nichlaus Von Hulsebus. The song is posted with the comic.

You can read the comic here.