It’s finally the Glorious 25th of May, so here’s the final character(s) in my countdown:

It’s finally the Glorious 25th of May, so here’s the final character(s) in my countdown: John Keel himself. Or rather, himselves - on the left is Vimes-as-Keel, and on the right is the original Keel. The similarities and differences between the two men were really fun to draw, and I think that’s my new favourite Vimes that I’ve ever drawn.

Night Watch is a hell of a book, and I’ve really enjoyed this little character design project to celebrate it. They’re an interesting group, the men who are remembered with the lilacs, and I hope I’ve done them all justice.

John Keel, Billy Wiglet, Horace Nancyball, Dai Dickins, Cecil ‘Snouty’ Clapman, Ned Coates and, technically, Reg Shoe. Probably there were no more than twenty people in the city now who knew all the names, because there were no statues, no monuments, nothing written down anywhere. You had to have been there.

He felt privileged to have been there twice.