Dear “Side Quest” Thursday guest cartoonists (yes, this means YOU if you’re reading this!), I’m putting out a call to you that if you’d like to contribute a guest comic to my Thursday “Side Quests” guest strip feature, I’d like you to think in terms of strips that deal with only Princess Gina on her own side quest, or perhaps, if you want, the Dark Queen, with her new husband (cough, gag) Sir Morton (or anything else Dark Queen related that you think of)! This will be a fun way to see the Dark Queen, from your perspective, and how she’s making out in married life, and as far as Princess Gina, well …. you’ll see where I’m going with this soon enough.

In this way, I will handle Bill and Frank for now on Monday’s, and we’ll hopefully get a peek at Gina on Thursday’s, as well as the Dark Queen.

Thanks, friends, and IÂ look forward to seeing what you might come up with, and my humble thanks that you’d consider taking your time to add to the Legend of Bill realm in this fun way!

David

Darren Rolfe (This week’s “Side Quests” guest cartoonist)Â was so kind as to send me some of the sketches of the Dark Queen and Sir Morton, etc, that he worked up in preparation for his guest strip (above) that I had to share some of them. One of my favorite things is looking at other people’s sketches. Enjoy - and thanks, Darren!

I often ask guest cartooists to send me some sketches if they worked some up for their guest strip, as I LOVE to see the process and other cartoonists’ sketchbook work. So, Chris Smith was so kind as to send me some sketches he drew for hiw guest strip (above) much to our viewing pleasure. Thanks, Chris (P.S., what kind of sketchbook do you use? I’m such a process geek.) - and enjoy, folks!

Be sure to jump over to Lucas Turnbloom’s “Imagine This” comic, as yours truly did a guest strip for it today! Woot! Lucas wrote it, I drew it. What a team!