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www.the-agencies.com presents Yelena #5

Oblesklk

Oblesklk

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Yelena #5 is available for sale!

To see prior issues of Yelena, along with dozens of other tickle torture comics, go to www.the-agencies.com

Those purchasing The Agencies #19 got the first sneak peak at our upcoming release, Yelena #8. It will hit the shelves early February.

Our long search for an amazing art studio to take over the Yelena line has come to an end. We spent the better part of 9 months in 2012 poring over hundreds of candidates, reviewing and scoring dozens of submissions from incredible artists from all over the globe in a massive push to continue to improve what we do at Agency Publishing. Our bar for artists is very high already, and it just got higher with this latest push. We are quite thankful for the dynamic duo that put Yelena together, we are quite happy with the results! Although we loved the artwork presented by Javier in Yelena #4, we really want Javier to focus his amazing talent on The Agencies and continue to produce that comic line at fast speeds.


So what's going on with the Yelena #5 cover art here? Oh dear, it looks like Gretchen has gotten herself into a pickle. When we last saw the girls, Yelena and Gretchen were enjoying themselves at a local club, entertaining a cute dancer named Jade. Little did they realize their friend Kirsta was captured by the Witch Hunters and tickle tortured until she broke and told them where Yelena lives. Now the clock is racing.

And has poor Gretchen been captured next? Check out Yelena #5 when it goes on sale February 8, 2013 to find out!

In summary, this issue has:

  • 14 interior color pages
  • Includes a cover of Gretchen
  • Issue offered in hyperlinked PDF format
  • Pencils/Inks by madstalfos
  • Colors by Dany
  • Written by Oblesklk
  • Director by Oblesklk and Jonathan Essex
  • ?/F tickling (meaning the identity of the tickler is unknown)
  • F/F tickling
  • Dedicated foot tickling scene
  • Genital tickling
  • "Kidnapped woman off the street" scene
  • Agency Publishing's first ever crossover. I don't want to give any spoilers, other than I'm pleased how it turned out.
  • Major plot points about Yelena and other comic lines revealed
  • Costs just $12.95 !

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To see prior issues of Yelena, along with dozens of other tickle torture comics, go to www.the-agencies.com

Here is the entire shot of page 1, low res.

I think the action speaks for itself. So here is some interesting production trivia. So we spent all of 2012 putting an exhaustive search for the best of the best artists. We get the pencils for this issue and I really like them since the artist puts a likeness to the characters that are quite similar to the early issues of the Yelena series. I like that continuity, I think it's much less jarring to the fans when they pick up the new issue. So he gets the green light. Then we move onto the colors.

Then we get this color submission of page 1 and it just blew me away. I knew these guys had done work for some very large, very well known clients in the past, but seeing them work there magic here was just jaw dropping. Everything from the coloring of the autumn foliage, to that shadows creeping across the scene (lending a rather eerie aspect), to dirt marks on Gretchen's socks. They're very talented, and just bring a certain pinache to the work here. I like what they've done for Yelena #5 and we certainly hope to maintain a good working relationship for many years to come!

And I hope you guys like their work, too 🙂

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Proof of Concept Sketch

To see prior issues of Yelena, along with dozens of other tickle torture comics, go to www.the-agencies.com

Before production, before colors, before feedback on the cover was given, there was a concept. I wanted the artists to convey to me two women. Two powerful women in love with each other. Arturo submitted this piece of Yelena and Gretchen standing with each other and I was really liked it. Gretchen here appears as young as she should be in the books, and Yelena is her ever watchful guardian, mindful of what the Witch Hunters have done to lovers of her past. Although this sketch never made it into an official colored pinup, I wanted to share it because we get a lot of artwork and it's a shame so much of it never sees the light of day!

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Yelena #5 is available for sale!

To see prior issues of Yelena, along with dozens of other tickle torture comics, go to www.the-agencies.com

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In summary, this issue has:

  • 14 interior color pages
  • Includes a cover of Gretchen
  • Issue offered in hyperlinked PDF format
  • Pencils/Inks by madstalfos
  • Colors by Dany
  • Written by Oblesklk
  • Director by Oblesklk and Jonathan Essex
  • ?/F tickling (meaning the identity of the tickler is unknown)
  • F/F tickling
  • Dedicated foot tickling scene
  • Genital tickling
  • "Kidnapped woman off the street" scene
  • Agency Publishing's first ever crossover. I don't want to give any spoilers, other than I'm pleased how it turned out.
  • Sneak Peak at a brand new tickling comic line premiering in 2013
  • Major plot points about Yelena and other comic lines revealed
  • Costs just $12.95 !
 
smilingjames said:
not bad but it could be improved a lot
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No doubt. No matter how far we've come, I am always excited about areas in which we can improve, whether it be logistics (how we get books to you), scriptwriting, or artwork.
 
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To see prior issues of Yelena, along with dozens of other tickle torture comics, go to www.the-agencies.com

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Here is something people might find interesting about the production process. Now that Yelena #5 has been released, it's pretty safe to say the cover art to the issue is now rather iconic for the series. We've had some really nice covers earlier in the series to set the overall tone, but this one really stands out in much the same way The Agencies #7 stood out for that series and ushered in truly a new saga for that comic line.

But the cover that is for Yelena #5 almost wasn't. I had wanted a scene showing Gretchen chained to a dungeon wall. Here is the first pass at the cover art:

Yelena_cover_pencil.jpg


But I had a few problems with it. First, the camera was zoomed too far out. Although I appreciate keeping the feet in frame, it lost some of its impact with the zoomed out feel of the camera. So we needed to zoom in quite a bit with an upper half body shot of Gretchen. Also, I didn't like that she was looking down, evading the camera. Even though it's always a risk to have a character look directly at camera (there are two main problems with it that I won't go into detail here), I wanted to take that risk and see where it got us. The result was a haunting, tired look from Gretchen as someone whose already seen the taste of the feather and worries when she'll be subjected to it again. And Dany's coloring really brings Gretchen and the entire stone wall to life in an incredible way.

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