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The panels have been blue-lined and the dialogue and speech balloon borders have been penciled in. Next step will be to ink the dialogue, which I do with a Micron 05. I used to use Rapidographs but they are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3154,"url":"https:\/\/ceaselessfables.com\/cfb\/2025\/07\/01\/urgh-a-post-delay\/","url_meta":{"origin":3203,"position":1},"title":"Urgh! A Post Delay","author":"Matty Boy","date":"July 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Heard any good virus jokes lately? Yeah, me neither. I tell you what, the hiatus I took from Ceaseless Fables goofed up my method a little- I honestly forgot how much time it takes to put a page together. 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