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{{Quotebox|I did the page breakdowns for SIX STRINGS, got a few pages of script written, and nailed down the storytelling approach I want to use for the project. With any luck, I’ll break the back of it tonight…}} | {{Quotebox|I did the page breakdowns for SIX STRINGS, got a few pages of script written, and nailed down the storytelling approach I want to use for the project. With any luck, I’ll break the back of it tonight…|Alasdair Watson}} | ||
In February of 2002, Watson wrote the following, referring to the story by the apparent working title ''The Six Strings That Drew Blood'' for the first and only time:<ref name="blackink5">{{cite web | In February of 2002, Watson wrote the following, referring to the story by the apparent working title ''The Six Strings That Drew Blood'' for the first and only time:<ref name="blackink5">{{cite web | ||
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{{Quotebox|I’ve just finished the script to SIX STRINGS THAT DREW BLOOD. I’m more or less banging this out to give my fingers something to do while I wait for my brain to settle into a new gear, so I can get on and write some thing else.}} | {{Quotebox|I’ve just finished the script to SIX STRINGS THAT DREW BLOOD. I’m more or less banging this out to give my fingers something to do while I wait for my brain to settle into a new gear, so I can get on and write some thing else.|Alasdair Watson}} | ||
Also in February, a teaser page was created for the story, which featured the LeDell Johnson quote used in the story as well as the following description:<ref name="blackink1"></ref> | Also in February, a teaser page was created for the story, which featured the LeDell Johnson quote used in the story as well as the following description:<ref name="blackink1"></ref> | ||
{{Quotebox|SIX STRINGS. A short story about guitars, teenage heartbreak and desperation. A twelve page, four beat blues comic, with art by Neil Evans. | {{Quotebox|SIX STRINGS. A short story about guitars, teenage heartbreak and desperation. A twelve page, four beat blues comic, with art by Neil Evans. | ||
Coming to the the UK Comics Festival in Bristol this year, and then to a website near you.}} | Coming to the the UK Comics Festival in Bristol this year, and then to a website near you.|Alasdair Watson}} | ||
In April of that year, Watson posted that he had "tightened the dialogue on SIX STRINGS".<ref name="blackink6">{{cite web | In April of that year, Watson posted that he had "tightened the dialogue on SIX STRINGS".<ref name="blackink6">{{cite web | ||
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}}</ref> (whether this inside back cover material, presumably for the print edition, was ever completed is unknown, as the cover material for the story was not featured on the Opi8.com release from which the surviving pages of the story were retrieved. Later in that month, he wrote that "SIX STRINGS is done, and ready to give out at Bristol", in a post titled "Fold And Staple, Fold And Staple.".<ref name="blackink2"></ref> | }}</ref> (whether this inside back cover material, presumably for the print edition, was ever completed is unknown, as the cover material for the story was not featured on the Opi8.com release from which the surviving pages of the story were retrieved). Later in that month, he wrote that "SIX STRINGS is done, and ready to give out at Bristol", in a post titled "Fold And Staple, Fold And Staple.".<ref name="blackink2"></ref> | ||
In June of 2002, he posted a post titled "Back from Bristol.", writing:<ref name="blackink3"></ref> | In June of 2002, he posted a post titled "Back from Bristol.", writing:<ref name="blackink3"></ref> | ||
{{Quotebox|SIX STRINGS seemed to go down well, which was very pleasing.}} | {{Quotebox|SIX STRINGS seemed to go down well, which was very pleasing.|Alasdair Watson}} | ||
In October of 2002, Watson posted that the comic had been released on Opi8.com, writing:<ref name="blackink10">{{cite web | In October of 2002, Watson posted that the comic had been released on Opi8.com, writing:<ref name="blackink10">{{cite web | ||
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{Quotebox|SIX STRINGS, the short comic I wrote earlier in the year is now up at Opi8. ... 12 pages, a nasty little blues story of teenage heartbreak and bloody guitars, written by me, with art by Mr Nelson Evergreen.}} | {Quotebox|SIX STRINGS, the short comic I wrote earlier in the year is now up at Opi8. ... 12 pages, a nasty little blues story of teenage heartbreak and bloody guitars, written by me, with art by Mr Nelson Evergreen.|Alasdair Watson}} | ||
In May of 2003, Watson wrote of Six Strings:<ref name="blackink11">{{cite web | In May of 2003, Watson wrote of Six Strings:<ref name="blackink11">{{cite web | ||
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{{Quotebox|This time last year I was sorting out the last bits of SIx Strings, a [comic] about wanting to achieve – about drive and ambition, and the things we throw away for it. I wrote Six Strings with a bellyful of coffee and a headful of booze, and I think it shows. It creaks in places, but there’s a drive in it that I like. Passion.}} | {{Quotebox|This time last year I was sorting out the last bits of SIx Strings, a [comic] about wanting to achieve – about drive and ambition, and the things we throw away for it. I wrote Six Strings with a bellyful of coffee and a headful of booze, and I think it shows. It creaks in places, but there’s a drive in it that I like. Passion.|Alasdair Watson}} | ||
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