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Jacqueline Lay Jacqueline Lay is an illustrator and designer who currently resides at the Flux Factory. She has been working with her principal character Mr. Macomber for numerous years. His story ends here at Opolis. Her portfolio can be found at www.duchastel.com/~jacqueline. Mr. Macomber is a man who discovers one morning, at the tailor's shop, that he has a hole straight through his chest. And this, on the day of his long-awaited date with Ms. Hall! He calls up a doctor friend from the hotel lobby phone and has it diagnosed as a void of ambition. The story follows him as he contemplates his dilemna throughout the day and realizes a few things about love, lowering one's standards and settling for less in life. It concludes with his date at the Italian restaurant, where he imagines that he leaps off a theater balcony into the arms of the woman he loves. A pessimistic tale with a joyful conclusion, it reads more like a poem than a story. We will follow Mr. Macomber as he goes to all of these locales: 1. Tailor Each new location will have a diorama made of clay on the ground floor of that building. Above the diorama, the story for that location will continue in drawn window panels, although the action of the story still takes place on the ground floor. The block will be done in muted colors and will look a bit antiquated and decrepit. The date takes place at night, so I'm considering doing the umbrella thing a la Damien Jay over that sector of the block. Shared Characters: 1. Protagonist - Mr. Macomber: Wears a powder blue tuxedo
with no shirt, has a publicly visible hole through his chest that grows
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