Damien Jay

Long-time but limited-time Brooklyn cartoonist Damien Jay produces, with some regularity, mini-comics and screenprinted books. His comics can be found in the comics anthologies Hey 4-Eyes, True Porn 2 and the upcoming Project: Romantic. He is currently working on a comics adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "Rappaccini's Daughter". Visit his website at www.damienjay.com.

Story
The main character, Leslie, is a paranoid loner. He wanders around in a vacant office building at night, ruminating about some of his obsessions, pondering his place in the world, and pondering the effects of the office workers in their absence. At some point he is spotted by a security guard who interrupts his reverie.

Characters
Leslie (not a shared character) is the main character in this story.

The other (shared) character is a security guard. I guess he doesn't have a name right now. He's a working class guy who likes how his job doesn't require very much effort on his part.

Setting
A single ordinary glass-skinned office building that takes up the entire block. Inside the building you can see rows and rows of cubicles. The ground floor lobby is marble and chrome surfaces with some plants. This is where the security guard normally spends his nights monitoring a bank of surveillance cameras.

The story centers on Leslie wandering through this building alone. In order for him to be alone, it's important that it takes place after-hours. Since the time in the rest of Opolis probably won't be specific, or could be any other time of day, it will be necessary to make an indication that on my block at least it is perpetually night. My idea for solving this problem is to put an umbrella over the building which will shade the building from the lighting in the gallery and also can serve as a stage-y type of indication of the time. The underside of the umbrella or tarp will be black, maybe with stars painted on it. I'll probably also print some explicit message on the umbrella stating that it's nighttime on this particular block of Opolis.

Because it's nighttime, I'd like to rig up some lighting inside the building. I'm hoping that maybe some hidden small-bulbed string lights will do the trick. I'd like a green cast to the lighting inside the building, like the effect of fluorescent lighting.

The floors will have some depth to them, i.e. the comics won't be pasted flat on the windows. I'd like to put mylar or something like that on the surface of the building so it will be transparent and will have the appearance of a glass-coated building.