From Fraction’s photostream. Can’t embed it, but you can view it. In this panel, Gabriel Ba references THE PRISONER. I feel like I’ve gone a year without a new issue of my favorite comic, but really it’s only been four months.

Fraction notes in his caption:

influences, meet sleeve

from CASANOVA 3.3, “Harm Reduction”

11 pages on the future of Casanova. A great read.

GQ: You’ve said that one of the reasons it’s been two years since the last all-new issue of Casanova is that you and your artists—the Twins, Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba—needed to go off and do some work that actually paid, for a change.

FRACTION: Yeah.

Were you being facetious, or was the hiatus actually an economic decision?

No. Money hadn’t really started coming into the twins until well into [Casanova] Volume 2. Gabriel drew the first six or seven issues without seeing a dime. With the exception of when [Fraction’s 2003 graphic novel] Last of the Independents was optioned—there was a little check for that—I’ve never made a dime on my creator-owned stuff. Or if I have, it’s been very few dimes. Little enough to not actually know. But Casanova I know for a fact I’ve not made a penny on. It’s all gone back to the twins, to try to pay back their page rate and get them to a point where they’ve not been working for free. But, I mean, Gabriel drew all of his volume without seeing a dime and Fabio did his. Now those checks drib and drab in, call them minor at best, it’s no way to make a living. People do, people get lucky, but we’re not those guys. We did not catch that lightning in a bottle.