88 Keys and 10 Fingers

Matt Maxwell is the creator of "Strangeways" and he is always putting together clever plots for creative projects, both as prose and sequential comic book.


A few years back he was working on a new "Strangeways" collection that was going to contain all new short stories and he invited me to contribute art to a short story that he wrote. The working title of the story was "88 Keys and 10 Fingers" and it involved a piano...and a haunting melody.


The story hasn't seen print yet, so I don't think it would be appropriate to show the whole story, but here is a random double page spread, unlettered and uncolored: