My Comic

I figure I may as well begin talking about this now – I’ve been working on a comic lately. More than just a comic, more like two of them, but only one has reached near-completion; all that’s left is for me to smooth out some rough narrative patches and begin drawing the damn thing. Life is busy – balancing school projects, college things, musical projects, writing, hell, life in general – but it’s never too busy, and I always have a lot of time to think.

This story came about from a series of one-shot joke comics I wrote in my sophomore and junior years (basically, the last two years) to show off to some of my friends, have a laugh, and be done with it. The style I used for these comics was, at first, just stick figures with full heads of hair. They had stick torsos and limbs and heads but each character had their own unique hairstyle. Eventually, I began drawing the same stick figures, but I added hands and shoes in order to give certain gags more gravity and weight to them; soon, I began adding clothes. Eventually, it turned into something almost human; the current and final character designs I have for the characters now have realistic if thin arms, legs, hands, feet, and torsos; their heads, however, are circular and stick-figure like. It allows me to draw them easily and give the facial expressions more cartoonish variety.

The final character design for Starla, a keyboardist.

 The story for this came about from watching Akira late-at-night with my friend Autin, laughing our asses off at the terrible voice acting and wickedly fast pacing; it deepened when I re-watched Bill and Ted on DVD. I have absolutely no idea how the two films coincide beyond the fact that they were made in the 80’s, but for some reason, I thought, wildly, “Akira, Bill, and Ted”. The actual final product began something way different, more like “FLCL meets Sonic the Hedgehog meets Bill and Ted meets Akira meets action thriller”. I won’t reveal any particular details yet, but it’s a mixture of adventure, time travel / teleportation, and coming-of-age.

That’s all for now. Updates soon.