DawnPg0Pnl1.Szekeres

This is the 1st panel from the "0" page of the MerDawn story I did for Joe Linsner of his character Dawn (originally published as the 6 page back up story in issue#3 Dawn Return of the Goddess in 2000). At this time he had never done Dawn as a mermaid, and I had always wanted to do her as one. We had known each other for several years beforehand via working for the same publisher, and I had expressed interest in doing Dawn as a mermaid...someday. So it came about that Joe wanted to see her done by me as a mermaid. The "0" page, which this panel is from is like a page 0 to this story, which was published separately in his Dreams of Dawn issue for Wizard.

Dawns' scales are little skulls, so she has SkullScales. Her fins are like the petals of a red rose.

Only Dawn's hand is in this one reaching out from the rain churned water like the hand of the fabled lady of the Lake from Arthurian legends. She's reaching up to touch the sky...to feel the rain...to excite in the lightning, the 3 symbolizing her 3 tears. Not as exciting as a full figure of Dawn in it, but I've always really liked the atmosphere of this panel, and wanted to share it here.

This treatment is what I will bring to the new Elf~Fin comic/Graphic Novel I'm working on now with Julie Ditrich.

Art © and ™ 1999 Jozef Szekeres
Dawn © and ™ 1999 Joe Linsner