Hello all!

Thank you for your patience while I’m on my break. You may have noticed that I did upload one more page since the last blog post but that was due to it being so close to done, I thought it silly to leave it. It has made me look forward to doing the next one!

I’ve had a lot more readers come to visit the website so hello and welcome everyone! It’s very nice to see 🙂 The next SpiderForest creators are now available for sharing, please see below.

New Member Spotlight – Normality and Paranormality

Normal is relative. Enjoy these comics that explore what happens when a touch of the silly, surreal, or supernatural bleeds into the lives of normal people.

The Bright Side

The Bright Side – Emily is a prickly and reclusive teenage girl. After a couple of random tragedies, she befriends Death – who turns out to be naive, neurotic, and completely endearing. Despite being eternal, “Dee” has at least as much growing up to do as Emily does.

Monsters & Myriads

Monsters & Myriads – A midwestern exploration into the spooky fantastic that haunts closed arcades, moon-frosted cornfields, and shadowed school hallways. Highschoolers band together to uncover a gothic conspiracy that threatens to unravel their school, town, and world.

Prophet of the Sun

Prophet of the Sun – A story about a selfish loser who would rather lie to themselves and everyone around them than face discomfort. This would be ok if they weren’t also the unstable vessel of the Sun, a strange new god intent on destorying the world.

Lauren Ipsum

Lauren Ipsum – Lauren Ipsum is a professional librarian, part-time writer, and an intellectual culture enthusiast (nerd). Join this looney rabbit and her friends running the esteemed St. Paws Library!

The City Under Saturn

The City Under Saturn – A group of mobsters slowly begin to uncover that the man they’re are working for may not be entirely human and that those contracts they signed may be more than legally binding.

The Organization of Ghost Hunters

The Organization of Ghost Hunters – After an encounter with a mysterious stranger, Ian Cooper discovers he’s able to see ghosts. The friendly dog spirit that follows him around isn’t so bad, but when dangerous spirits start to show up, he may need a little help.

SpiderForest is going to be updating the new comics (including my own) soon so I wanted to share my fellow new spiders here 😀 There’s some really talented people in this group and I’ve been enjoying reading some myself. Please click on the links below to go to their comic websites!

New Member Spotlight – Unlikely Heroes

Pirates and pilots, serpents and sorcery! Jump into adventures and mystery with these comics about taking your destiny into your own hands – whether you’re ready or not!

Thunderstar

Thunderstar – Amanda is an adventurous goth girl and a great pilot in the Royal Starfleet. When her boyfriend is kidnapped by a cult for their own nefarious purposes, it’s up to her and her high-strung engineer to defy the odds, cross the galaxy, and save him.

Teague Fagan

Teague Fagan – A sea serpent in the form of a human hermit is exiled to an island somewhere in the Celtic Sea while mermaids mysteriously, yet ruthlessly, hunt him down. But a new threat may pull him out of hiding…

Saffron Wave

Saffron Wave – Set 3000 years ago on ancient Crete, Nephele lives in uneventful solitude, until her world is upended by strange sea monsters and an even stranger woman giving her magical girl powers.

Heart of the Storm

Heart of the Storm – Tempest–a wanted pirate with no ship and no attachments–spends her time dancing around the gallows and making a mockery of the law. She takes and does as she pleases, consequences be damned. But that might all change when she saves Callisto’s life.

Yokoka's Quest

Yokoka’s Quest – Yokoka is a catgirl on an adventure and winging it, but what could go wrong? Right?

Entropy

Entropy – Arielle is an impulsive, headstrong blacksmith’s apprentice who comes in contact with a strange magical artifact that seems connected to an otherworldly being. As she experiments with its power, she may have accidentally kickstarted the apocalypse.

Hello lovely readers!

I’ve come to a point where I need to have a break from my comic for 1-2 months. I’ve been working on it for the past 2-3 years (including the first draft that hasn’t been published here) and there has been a few recent developments in story and character that has made me re-consider a few things in design and plot. So I need time to reflect on them. Funnily enough, the story has been inspired by the same sources that inspired my PhD proposal – so it’s likely it will crossover onto my academic work. In the meantime, I am giving myself the space needed to develop these new ideas.

Plus I need time to settle into my new job.

To all those who returned to enjoy the story or recent fans, this message is for you <3

Two loads of good news, I have finally completed page 78! That took me all day today and I’m knackered.

I may return to play around further with the text as it’s quite a busy one-panel page. However for now I am happy to leave it.

I’ve made a couple of changes to some previous pages’ script to fit in the update of my storyline, that is Ogog returning to his original name of Bryn Llewellyn (the purpose is that the former name no longer served a purpose and just added confusion). It’s early enough in the story to make that change so I took the opportunity.

I am also now an official PhD art student! This means I need to consider this alongside my new job and my comic updates, and it’s likely that I will have to return to a once monthly update rather than weekly realistically. Sorry everyone, I do need to sleep and relax from time to time to avoid burnout.

Enjoy the new page, I am going to rest on the sofa for a while.