HI!!!! FINALLY STARTING TO MAKE MY WAY THROUGH THE WEBCOMIC oughggh ohh my goodness this is my heaven on earth btw btw!??!? IM BARELY 25 PAGES IN AND i NEED you to know how much i adore this thing. like im SHAKING YOU OVER THIS> I REALLY ADORE THE DESIGNS AND THE WAY THE INTERACTIONS ARE DRAWN AND JUST EVERYTHING!?!? it so cool its legitimately so so so coool. im legitimately shaking as i read this thing from pure joy. a couple speciifc things too, THE CHURHC. THE CHURCH. I CANNOT REMEMBER FROM MY ORIGINAL READTHROUGH IF TEXTUALLY HES IN A BOAT PULPIT OR IF THATS INSPIRED BY THE 1956 MOVIE, BUT EITHER WAY THATS SO COOL. also FACIAL EXPRESSIONS!!!!! goodness theyre so cute truly. truuuly. AND THE FIRST NIGHT AND THEIR SECOND MEET/REINTRODUCTIONS!?!??!> DUUDE i wanted to sob from pure joy again, and again. goodness i love ishmael and queequeg so so much. holy. ALL IN ALL AWESOME JOB. I WISH YOU GREAT LUCK IN THIS PROJECT!!!!! <333
awww thank you so much that's so sweet of you!!!! aaa!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖 i'm so glad you enjoy it and i really appreciate this 💖💖💖💖🥺🥺🥺🥺
yes, the pulpit in the book is in fact designed to look like a ship's pulpit! with a rope ladder that Father Mapple climbs “as if ascending the main-top of his vessel” and paneling painted “in the likeness of a ship’s bluff bows.” (from ch8 ‘the pulpit’):
and the real life New Bedford church that Melville references (which in the book is called the Whaleman's Chapel, but IRL is the Seamen's Bethel) also has a ship's bow shaped pulpit (photo my own from my visit in 2019):
(though i don't actually know how old this pulpit is and if it was built this way after the book's popularity)
anyway thanks so much for this ask; i really appreciate :3 🥺🥺🥺 those old pages still mean a lot to me. someday i want to go back and remaster some of the art but i still really like them.
