6/14/2025

Scandi-Merica #9 - Coily

 

In Old Norse culture, the years were split between Summer and Winter, but a certain cartoon sprite doesn't like that.

Like Scandi-Merica #7, this is another comic where you'll probably need to be a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000 to get the main joke, as Coily the Spring Sprite is a reference to the short A Case of Spring Fever. The idea came to me as a good pairing joke with the seasons in viking age-Scandinavia being just separated into Summer and Winter. Svartalfheim is the land of the dark elves in the Eddas.

I was facing some indecision regarding the coloring of this comic, and you can see some of it through the dark/light purple color on Jarpr's shirt. For the most part I've kept a consistent color palette for each character, but I felt like mixing it up a bit. I initially visualized the royal blue for Ætta's dress, but in the first frame had went with a teal before trying the blue in the last frame and loving how it looked and went back to what I initially visualized. With Jarpr's shirt, I was going back and forth between the dark and light purple. I really like both, but ended up going with the light purple, but kept the darker purple as it could work as a shadow effect from the sun and I honestly love having both colors there.

All art, writing, inking, and coloring by me. 

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