Become A Citizen of The Wonder City
A Comics project in New York, NY by Courtney Zell & Justin Rivers ·
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Update #7: Allow me to introduce you to Mrs. Tulip
Posted on September 18, 2009
You've met Velma. I think she's currently emailing you her strong minded opinions about her life being turned into a book...
You've caught a glimpse of Owen and Lizzie and their garden...
There's one more main character to introduce you to, the matron of the Tulip family, distracted seamstress, rambling storyteller, more than slightly off center Edwina, Owen and Lizzie's mother.
Over the course of drawing The Wonder City, these characters are becoming disturbingly real to me. Owen tugs my heartstrings, Lizzie is looking more and more like my sister did at age 5, and Velma...basically I want to get whiskeys with her. For some reason Edwina pushes my buttons. I have walked away from the drafting table annoyed with her on more than one occassion.
She is simultaneously overbearing and absent, but she also reveals the most information about the Tulip family, their Dutch heritage, the father away to war, and their struggle to survive in New York. Basically, she'll drive you nuts, but you can't help but sympathize with her circumstances.
Her constant rambling also provides the motivations that for better or for worse set her children on their Coney Island adventure and change the Tulip family's lives forever.
So love her or hate her, meet the dandy seamstress.
-Courtney
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THE DANDY SEAMSTRESS: Original, hand pulled WONDER CITY print, a signed WONDER CITY postcard and regular updates.
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THE ARCHIVIST: A Brooklyn walking tour focusing on events pivitol in the Wonder City and Brooklyn history (another reward will be made available should you not be able to attend walking tour). An original hand pulled WONDER CITY print, a signed WONDER CITY postcard and regular updates.
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THE CONEY ISLANDER: Your likeness drawn into the comic! A Brooklyn walking tour, an original hand pulled WONDER CITY print, a signed WONDER CITY postcard and regular updates.
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THE LIGHT KEEPER: A signed copy of the book in a silk-screened WONDER CITY totebag. Your likeness drawn into the comic! A Brooklyn walking tour, an original hand pulled WONDER CITY print, a signed WONDER CITY postcard and regular updates.
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THE MAMA WHALE: Invitation to book party with a sneak peak at the next book, a signed copy of the book in a silk-screened WONDER CITY totebag. Your likeness drawn into the comic! A Brooklyn walking tour, an original hand pulled WONDER CITY print, a signed WONDER CITY postcard and regular updates.
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Although friends for 10 years, Courtney and Justin first hatched their writer-artist partnership 5 years ago. During that time they have produced a short comic on the history of coffee called COFFEE: ADVENTURES OF THAT INTERNATIONAL SUPERHERO and currently have been hired by the Friends of Nick Foundation to script and draw it's 3 comic educational program manuals called ADVENTURES OF LITTLE i. All the while they've been slaving away on their first love, THE WONDER CITY.
