No weekly drawing this week, and for good reasons (plural please): firstly, we’re both busy spring-cleaning our own home and preparing for the double anniversary we’ll be celebrating this weekend 🙂 and secondly, as you may have noticed, the Nimatek website has been completely revamped in preparation for the launch of its English-language version! I’ve been working on a new version for a while now, but it’s still not 100% complete at the time of writing!
So, because a week wouldn’t be complete for Nimatek without publishing an illustration, this is an opportunity to reveal an illustration from a distant prototype of Nuibie College, dating from the year of our Lord 2020! May 5, 2020, to be precise!
Yes, as indicated in the abridged history of the Nuibie universe that accompanied the previous weekly drawing, the Nuibie universe underwent a number of changes between 2019 and 2021. This drawing dates back to the time when the comic should have been called “Nuibie 715”, and had not one, but five main characters, no less! It wasn’t until the following summer that I decided to focus mainly on Cassandra (here in the center, and yes that’s her, and if you look closely, she has a similar outfit to “Cadet Girl” from “Spinaco Macalita”, see drawing “Cassandra la télévore”).
But all the characters to Cassandra’s left in the “Nuibie 715” drawing have already appeared in comics published in Nimatek. The one just to Cassandra’s left is Basile aka “Zile”, who was checking out the newcomers to the secondary school on page 11 of “Nuibie College: Welcome to Nievicila!”, a hursian easily recognizable with the starry patch over his left eye! As for the little fellow with the angular ears, he’s an oryani whose name hasn’t been shown, but the character himself did appear on page 4 of “One day like that on Nuibie”, and his absence as an active character is only a temporary one! 😉
Coming back to “Nuibie 715”, this formula, which was supposed to be in the same vein as my comic featuring Masane that I mentioned last week (i.e. a formula with heroes who right wrongs), was finally abandoned in favor of a more “school” and slightly dystopian formula when it was decided, at the very end of 2020, to make the characters younger. The rest, you know if you follow us, is “One day like that on Nuibie” and then “Nuibie College” (which, for the record, was almost called “Nuibie X”, long before Twitter became 𝕏, and this is a real anecdote!).
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