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KEEPING TIME GUEST COMIC: "GRWM" by Nicky Rodriguez
🕑 Added 2024-11-22 00:43:28 +0000 UTCI can't handle it anymore, I'm caving in and sharing the upcoming Keeping Time guest comics early!! The rest of the world will be getting these during Keeping Time's upcoming winter break between chapters 2 and 3, but you lovely patrons get them now!
The first is a single pager featuring - gasp - everyone's favorite bartender, ELENA. I asked Nicky for anything with Elena going about her day, and she came back with this incredible 'get ready with me' that I ADORE SO MUCH. Look how happy and cute Elena is!! 😭So stylish!! I continue to think that every day that Elena isn't the main character of Keeping Time is another day I'm making a mistake, hahaha!
I told Nicky I'm probably going to be stealing all of these outfits for Elena in the main comic at some point (although I probably won't be able to draw shoes with quite the same OOMPH that Nicky does).
Nicky makes her own webcomic, The Unlucky Ones and the Edge of Nowhere (TUOTEON), a melancholy road trip story about two queer Latinx young adults burdened with superpowers trying to escape the path life wants to take them on. You can read it on Webtoons or Global Comix! You can also follow Nicky on Bluesky (where the two of us yell about the Japanese national men's volleyball team and Haikyuu! together)
I'll post the second guest comic sometime next week, so hang on to your pants!
Comments
Marcus Jimenez
Love this. Very much excited for more guest comics!!
Kaycie Dunlap
THIS IS SO GOSHDARN CUTE she looks wonderful in this style! I love her!!!!
Kody Okamoto
😌 I heard the people love Elena, so I am simply happy to provide a meal~
Kody Okamoto
RIGHT?? Her expressions really sell this whole page for me! (My favorite fit is the BUSINESS JACKET ONE, and like. I might just have to write in a whole scene where she gets to wear that lmaooo)
Kody Okamoto
I feel so lucky Nicky had the time in her schedule to take this on for me!! She totally nailed it!! (and also I'll have to keep in mind... someday I wanna come knocking about a skate page...)
Kody Okamoto
I love the pink, too!! And YES, I like how Nicky draws Elena more than how I draw Elena 🤣
Kody Okamoto
It really is!! Nicky killed it!
Rico Taveras
An absolute banger of a page!
Amélie
Those are really good outfits, Elena is rocking all of them (of course)! She’s so pretty in Nicky’s style too and I love the choice to make the page in pink!
Luc Nakashoji
Nickyyy!! Also panel 3 is perfect. Elena can do no wrong!
Yukiizura
Oh this is too *cute*, Nicky got Elena's facial expressions *perfectly*, and the fits?? We have to stan
Emerald Star
ELENA GUEST COMIC??? WE WON😭👏🏿
