# ghliveblog

[Ben Wyatt voice] It’s about two people with large but undefined feelings for each other just barely failing to hold hands in a tense moment to symbolize how they’re not quite in sync yet!!!

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Oh! I remember I started using a thicker brush setting beginning this episode

(Also, I was listening to “The Heirs” by Susan Rieger) (sense memory is wild)

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2020-03-21

I still feel weird that I didn’t actually show that much of Bartlett mentoring Graham??

Their relationship is supposed to be a profound mentor-student relationship, but... I kind of only show peeks of it, and the effect of Bartlett’s disappearance

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Btw the fact that GH updates on Sundays is totally a coincidence!

I just knew that family dinners are often on Sundays, and I always liked the word “Dimanche”!

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I wanted all kinds of loves in Gourmet Hound, not just romantic love

It was important to me that even though Charlotte has a husband and children and a long-standing successful career—the great loves of her life are her friends

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I don’t think this totally makes sense, but the sentiment that Charlotte’s cooking reminds Lucy of the Dimanche patissiers below her, and even the patissiers trained by Heath was a fun concept!

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This is sort of the precursor to Bartlett’s “The last, most important thing Lynn left behind was you”

You don’t need huge gestures to honor the loved ones you lost—living your life well is enough!

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The transition to 90s fashion was easier, I just referenced Friends!

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I had a little trouble figuring out how to make the Sunday dinners feel “home-y”—one thing I tried was to have a lot of people talking over each other??

When you’re on your own for the first time, eating a meal in silence is can be lonesome!

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I didn’t have a lot of plans about Lucy’s parents beyond “dad’s sense of smell is stronger than Lucy’s” and “mom is strong”

Hopefully I distributed Lucy’s traits well enough that readers felt they were related!

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I saw a lot of (fair) comments saying that Bartlett, Palmier, and Charlotte should have helped Lucy after Lynn’s death

But tbh, I’m not at all close to my parents’ friends either? And the Dimanche founders didn’t even see Lynn that often near the end

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I think Haddock is kind of a superfluous character now, but at this point, I wasn’t sure who was going to give Lucy the “new relationships aren’t for replacing anything” speech

Haddock, Palmier, Charlotte, Olive, and Colby were all options at this point!

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2020-03-21

I didn’t keep track of the waitstaff, but I referenced a couple who had appeared previously in the comic for this panel!

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I think this reflection bit would have worked better horizontally, but OH WELL

Also I just noticed that when I flipped the young versions of them upside down, the word “menu” got reversed...

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Lucy now being able to associate tastes with chefs she’s come to know personally, and Palmier associating Lucy with her grandmother were two of my favorite panels!

It was interesting to figure out how to express “this reminds me of someone” without dialogue!

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I wanted to begin to suggest that the thing that makes a place feel like “home” to Lucy isn’t the scent of the food, but of the people she knows there

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I wanted to evoke the feeling of going into a house you moved out of, or a school you’ve graduated from—

It’s kind of heartbreaking to go somewhere you used to be everyday and be unable to recognize it

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The reason why Jacobi’s hat is pink while he’s in disguise is because I was 100% certain that there would be readers who forgot that this was Jacobi if there wasn’t something pink on his head

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This wasn’t intentional, but I like how as soon as Meyer went from nemesis to friend, the universe was like “Lucy must always have an nemesis, let’s throw Jacobi at her”

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They’re dating! Or, well, they’re going out on Valentine’s Day

(Clem’s shirt graphic is one of my friend’s doodles on my iPad!)

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