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A comical novelette about Queen Khleow, verified Queen of Eqypt and time traveling detective. A fond tribute to the Jay Ward era cartoons.

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Topics: Update on Quitturz graphic novel and news about the upcoming Queen Khleow ebook and webcomic.

I changed my plan on the Quitturz; I’m going to do the graphic novel as a hybrid. I was taking the opportunity to revise 1977 sections of the novel; one can only cover so much detail in a comic and I felt that the ebook should also be revised (as opposed to having the graphic novel be a different version).

The original Vella version had two parallel plots; the 70s San Francisco along with the 80s Seattle story. Now, book one will be the San Francisco events. In other words, the series is going to be told in chronological order. 
So, the Quitturz will be a revised novelette with a complete graphic novel version included. 
Note: I attached an alternate Quitturz graphic novel cover. I’m evolving the final cover art but these cover images are handy illustrations for future promo.
One of the reasons I changed the plan was because the book doesn’t lend itself well to a cartoon version. A lot  of the graphic detail is at the level of 60s era Mad magazine (if you’re familiar with that level of artwork). I needed more of the story expressed in facial expressions and gestures since not all of it is broad humor.
That created a situation where my desire to do a weekly webcomic based on the Quitturz became a little too labor intensive. So, I moved another project up; a revision of the Queen Khleow novelette originally on Vella. I’ll put the revised ebook out on schedule this month since it’s already written and early next year, will debut a webcomic version which is more of a broad satire.

I envisioned the book as a text version of Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons with J. Ward style humor so the webcomic versions won’t need to have the subtlety required for the Quitturz.

Attached to this blog entry is the tentative cover for the Khleow ebook. It differs from the comic art because it’s a cover illustration and incorporates all the tech that I would normally use for a promo image or video. 

The webcomic will be hand drawn as much as possible like the Quitturz. In the case of the ebook cover, it’s a composite of three images plus a detailed image of the model, Klaudia, a real human being (she also helped out with the Quitturz promos and videos). There’s also various effects, filters, text (all open source) and a couple of stickers that add some humor to the otherwise standard action story motif.

I’ll be doing the same with the Quitturz, it’ll have a traditional style cover and the graphic novel version will be hand drawn.

I’ll do a fuller preview in another blog entry but if you look at the Khleow picture, I think you’ll see some of the comedic elements. 

The webcomic cover for Queen Khleo has already been drawn. I’m going to use the original Kindle Vella cover, which is a hand drawn picture. The cover has more of an ancient Egyptian flavor. If you look at this e-book cover, I wouldn’t call it a straight satire but it is a gentle spoof of the fantasy-sorcerer genre; which makes sense for a fictional queen that also time travels. 

Such a person would be exposed to a lot of different fashions and would not necessarily dress like common images of Cleopatra.

Al Handa
Nov. 3, 2026

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