New Designs – Spice and Cannibalism

My creativity knows no bounds. Nor depth which it will not sink. Enjoy! Consume!

A Webcomic Experiment

So, this whole webcomic thing has been pretty fun. I’m digging the creative process of developing Arkham Polytech and sharing the development in near-real time, although it is kinda frightening sharing what amounts to first drafts with the universe. But the hope is after twenty or so strips, and the accompanying feedback loop, I’ll end up with something people like, and that I’m proud to draw on an ongoing basis.

So far, after a month, been able to keep a once-a-week update schedule. The drawing/digitizing/posting process is still taking about three hours a strip, mostly because I’m still figuring out what tools work best and experiment (right now it’s hand-draw the scripts, scan into photoshop for cleaning, import into illustrator for vectorizing, coloring, lettering). If I can get that process under two hours a strip, I’ll bite the bullet and go to two-strips-a-week.

Bunch of non-strip work I still need to do — need to put together a character page and need to build audience. Building audience is the tricky part… being good alone won’t generate page views (and it’s far from being “good” yet). Have to build word of mouth, and start participating in online comic/writing communities, which for an anti-social beast like me (with a  day job and a novel in progress) might be a chore. But then again I might like it. Guess we’ll see.

Diluted

The art style continues to evolve… real close to where I want it now. The character designs… those will be the next to evolve.

Contortions

Priorities are extremely important, even in dark magic.

New Tees! Animals, Fingers and Seals

Enjoy! Consume!

Wrist of Doom

And the strips just keep coming.

Ritual Interuptus

So, redid the first strip. I think it turned out much better. Let history be the judge.

Arkham Polytech – The Strip Has Landed

Behold! The dorm-life adventures of a mad god… Arkham Polytech.

What’s the skinny? I felt like starting a weekly strip (for now, updating once a week). It’s an experiment of sorts. Hopefully over the next few months it’ll evolve into something a little more polished… or devolve into something spectacularly bad. Either way, why not come along for the train wreck?

This being an experiment, I’m hungry for comments / critiques / haiku on just how bad you think it is. Go ahead. Let me know what you think of it. I’ve got thick skin. And a panoply of dark and mystical curses I can throw right back at ya, you over-critical meat-bags.

Aliens, Cows, Pants, and Hooks

Because I love Arrested Development, Men Who Stare at Goats, and the IT Crowd, here are three new parody designs. Enjoy! Buy many!

Aliens / Cows

Electric Sex Pants

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