Working on Joshua is starting to get enjoyable. He is based on a real person but I wanted to avoid a direct portrait as his purpose in the novel isn't limited to my memory of the person. I'm still working on him but the breakthrough was when I realised who I was trying to get him to look like. As an alpha boy he needs to have some hunkiness but a non luggy one. I needed someone from the era. John Travolta has already been taken for Gail's reconstituted boyfriend, Gary. Joshua needs to be vain but also substantial. The other night I rewatched The Parallax View, a great paranoia thriller from the Watergate era. And there he was, Warren Beatty. I stopped the movie and started drawing Warren Beatty. But he can't just be a clone. So ... I'm still working on him....
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