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Published: 2015-12-30 02:46:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 5665; Favourites: 119; Downloads: 0
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Well. I do love maps. And this is one I drew mainly to guide me through Episode I of my upcoming comic Lift. It shows the main scene of the action: the Eastern Coast of North America, Southern Canada and the Northern Caribbean. Maps always get the imagination running I find.Related content
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It’s a dieselpunk adventure aimed at the YA audience, set in an alternate version of the early 1940s where World War I is still going on in Europe. As a side effect, a power struggle is playing out in North America between various competing interests over the future of the Free Cities, the remnants of a once thriving mercantile confederacy on the East Coast.
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It does, but it’s called the United State.
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Does the U.S still hold Alaska and Hawaii though?
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Have to wait for Episode II for that!
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It doesn't exist yet. Just the beginnings of a project.
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At some point in the near future, I hope to have enough time to devote to my comics - at the moment I'm barely touching the ground and can hardly keep all my commitments in line.
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seeing the zep and the 2 planes, the first thing which came to my mind was Crimson Skies...
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It does have a similar Dieselpunk flavor, for sure. But it's a rather different world.
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Not yet, but soon I hope!
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Partly. The United State and the City-States voluntarily associate and have a long history of cooperation, but they are technically independent of each other. Strictly speaking, the United State is a league of city-states that banded together to form a larger government, gradually turning into a single large country as the territories merged. This dates back to the Revolution - originally there was no United State, only dozens of small city-states, but the majority joined the United State and gave up their autonomy over the years, or merged with other city-states for protection and trade benefits.
Only the thirteen strongest of the original seventy or eighty city-states remain. They have their own governments (or lack thereof, depending on your point of view) and militias, and trade with each other and internationally under what they call "laissez-faire," which is their version of neutrality.
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Heh! Hasn't been on dA that long.
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They are indeed! Very much so.
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This is very nice!! Ilook forward to seeing more of "Lift"!
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Thanks! It's a fun project so far.
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This looks wonderful, but the print is too small for me to read...
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Yeah, sorry about that, but as it's part of a work in progress I'm testy about putting up high-res versions at the moment.
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well thats looking intresting for your new comic.
it playing in a alternate 30`s - 40`s time line i guese.
p.s love the one you have now running.
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Thanks! But rest assured that 6-Commando isn't in any danger of abandonment.
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