We’re going to start seeing a few familiar faces pop up as we go through our roll call for the next handful of pages. Currently, the Celestial Union is running test on Yato’s cursed gourd to see if it can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And so here is the first of what is going to become kind of a lot of friendship endings. You can also read my competitor’s comic here, it’s quite good.
One thing to note by the way is that I draw in Adobe Flash rather than, y’know, an actually reasonable art program. This is pretty much entirely due to professional inertia from using Flash for about 17 years now, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I mentioned my issues with this comic being far too compressed; I consider this to be my weakest comic by far, and am honestly kind of embarrassed to even look at it. In retrospect, this is mostly because I tend[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This next bit is important: most of the original 64 entered Round one blind; aside from submission comics (and those were optional so some contestants did not have anything more than a character sheet and a quick blurb), most of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For most of the round, the singular thought running through my head was “is 8 pages going to be too excessive?” and used the time I had to streamline the story and carve out some pages. This ultimately I think[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now, just because I hadn’t drawn comics in a while didn’t mean I had completely lost all my previous experience with comics, so I ended up scavenging my old workflow from the days of somewhere in nevada and scripted out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Keep in mind, the rules of the competition were pretty simple: for each round, contestants had to draw a minimum of two pages in two weeks, the comics had to feature both characters interacting (though not necessarily killing or even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first round started with me being matched against Yul, whose character was Yazh, a nineteen-foot tall psychic Quetzalcoatlus, AKA “bird auntie.” Interestingly, this colorscheme was initially selected simply because the first two pages took place at night, and thus[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…