Was watching a documentary about Lucian Freud this morning and it had a quote in it which, for me wraps up Tamino into one, neat paragraph: “The promise of happiness is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then that the painter realizes that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then, he had almost dared to hope that the picture might spring to life.” If there were a new version of the comic, I think I'd include this in the back. Glad to finally have something that works so well to describe what the hell I was feeling while making it.