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Book 1, Front Matter
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
The 21st century Alexander Romance
Author and Illustrator: Reimena Yee
Editor: Atla Hrafney
Consultant: Richard StonemanBook One: The Hero’s Journey
A double page cover illustration. Alexander faces the reader. The lower half of his face is covered by long hair, leaving only his two-coloured eyes visible. Bucephalus and the Servant are behind Alexander, also facing the reader. Framing them is an overhanging of neem and pipal leaves, from two intertwined trees. Hidden amongst the branches and shared, decorated stump of the trees are a menagerie of strange creatures: a bird with a flaming head, a large-eared tiny fairy, a three-eyed lion, a dragon, two satyrs, a griffin, and a dog-headed monk. At the distance is a desert, the horizon ends at pitch blackness, which spreads upwards towards the sky like a reverse sunset. The rest of the sky is littered with stars.
Book 1 Frontmatter
Fun fact: Today, June 10/11, is the 2344th anniversary of Alexander’s death.
Oh my gosh, after almost three years of pre-production and development… it’s finally here!! It’s official!!
Chapter 1 will release next month, on July 21. (Fun fact: That will be Alexander’s 2377th birthday.) In the meantime, feel free to explore the rest of the website, which contains lots of resources and behind-the-scenes tucked into its nook and crannies! I plan to make this the primo place for Alexander Romance #content and the comics creation process, so look out for more site content in the future. 😉
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Thank you to everyone who has followed this project since 2018. I am so happy to be back doing webcomics and to share this new era of my life.
– Reimena
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