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  • The Southerner

    • April 17, 2021
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    The chief henchman of part 1 of ‘Casanova in Paris: The Shadows of the King’ is Marquis Philippe Carbajales d’Olhonce (aka The Southerner) a nobleman and, therefore, a member of France’s Second Estate.  Unlike many of our other characters, The Southerner is entirely fictional. The Marquis combines the qualities of a psychopath and an entrepreneur. 
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  • Cliffhangers

    • March 20, 2021
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    Audience feedback we received from our smaller, printed version of ‘Casanova in Paris’ suggested that we hadn’t given enough attention to cliff-hangers (a term which we loosely use to mean a moment of dramatic interest, not necessarily always a moment of suspense).  There were dangers, however, in simply shoe-horning in new cliff-hangers: they might appear
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  • Who’s who

    • February 3, 2021
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    One of the tricky features of producing a graphic novel, especially one like ours which has a relatively large cast and which runs to almost 250 pages (and hopefully 500 pages when we produce Part 2!) is making sure that the reader is clear about who’s who. How awkward this can be was illustrated when
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