In 2014 I finished the first arc of Thirteenth Child, a comic I had been working on for 8 years at that point. I was at a place where I wanted a bit more success and modified my workload to produce multiple comics at once by producing comic strips instead of comic pages. In 2016 […]
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Lynda is an important cast member of HD Remix, but I hadn’t included her in any plans until I drew her here. I just kinda had fun with it, and decided to bring her back as a core cast member. I don’t normally advise doing something like that, but I felt it was appropriate for
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The original Action Hat comics were all little gags that weren’t sequentially related, but I wanted some more structure for this project. This edition opens and closes with one big case for the team to resolve, with little gag strips sprinkled in between. It was a structure I enjoyed, and If I ever return to
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Alright, it’s time for Action Hat! I came up with this idea in 2009, and exclusively drew the comics poorly in worn down sketch books. That was an element of the joke, but it was one of my best received works so 10 years later I decided to remake the original set of comics, now
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FIRST PREVIOUS Page 15 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 15 NEXT LAST See what I mean? This comes off more like a breakup than someone flipping the table and leaving the game. The lesson here, everyone, is to communicate even if it is to fight. Don’t be like Gary.
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FIRST PREVIOUS Page 14 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 14 NEXT LAST So, if I were to do this pilot over again, I would tweak this ending. Alessa’s cartoony frustration gets a little too real starting here. I think the reason it got away from me is that Gary doesn’t talk, so Alessa needs to
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FIRST PREVIOUS Page 13 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 13 NEXT LAST A player’s hand floating around them has been another consistent element across the rewrites of Project Aether (there have so far been 5, not including this one). It provides a constant reminder of how many cards are at a player’s disposal and takes
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FIRST PREVIOUS Page 12 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 12 NEXT LAST Another tricky thing to determine was how card spells manifest. Here they kinda just pop in or come in from a shimmering portal like with Hibiki, but it is better to clearly define something like this as it is something you’ll likely need
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FIRST PREVIOUS Page 11 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 11 NEXT LAST The designs of the cards have been a pain for this series because you need to balance how much information the audience gets from the card (which determines how much of the card needs to be legible), and how much the audience gets
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FIRST PREVIOUS Page 10 NEXT LAST FIRST PREVIOUS Page 10 NEXT LAST Another one of my favorite pages, but I’m going to talk about something else again. Lym and Alessa are both in their late 20s in this build of the story. In the draft after this they were both aged down considerably to be
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