Managing the work load

Managed to complete the next page! 😀

I was worried I wouldn’t be able to make this month’s update as it’s been such a hectic few weeks. I’ve been worried about getting a new car for work and affording to get it serviced. The end is in sight now thank goodness with the worst of it over. My family have been wonderfully helpful, couldn’t have done it without them <3

My art is going to be focusing on starting my PhD project now. It’s hard going back and forth between whether I can continue with the comic or not because I do want to keep going but at the same time I do need to use my time wisely, as I have very little spare.

I’ll work on the comic when I can because no doubt I will like to come back to have a break from my PhD work. In the meantime, I hope you like the new page!

Backtrack

Ever made a decision and regretted it? Well, that’s how I feel with my latest post. After being away from my comic for a while, I realised how much I really don’t want to leave it alone. It seems the break definitely helped rekindle my passion for it so I will be working on the next page soon.

Thank you everyone for your patience with me, it certainly has been a journey so far. The next challenge is establishing how I am going to balance my personal work, PhD work and job. I believe it is doable if I keep to the once monthly update.

Fortunately this had coincided with the final share of the new SpiderForest comics so please see below!

New Member Spotlight – Broken Places

Politics, natural disaster, or the advances of technology can make the world a harsh place to navigate. Will these characters find treasures lost to a time before disaster struck their land? Or spiral deeper into chaos along with it?

Malatona When It Rains

Malatona When It Rains – Despite promises over the last twenty years, the Isahek river is flooding again. When a tax collector is shot by its banks, the provincial court must respond to the rising violence. The members of the court vie for control of their crumbling empire.

Pneuma Vita

Pneuma Vita – After obtaining a mysterious book about plants, Lyka discovers a medicinal plant called “Pneuma Vita” that may be able to treat her father’s worsening asthma. But it grows in the farthest region outside of the city, far beyond everything Lyka knows…

Hollow Trail

Hollow Trail – A post apocalyptic adventure webcomic following Rosario as he explores a scary and mystifying world left behind many years ago, what type of friends will he make? And what lies along these hollow trails?

Ultraviolents

Ultraviolents – A near-future gay body horror comic about two men using underground blood sports and body modification as therapy.

LOSTLAND

LOSTLAND – A supernatural, post-apoc adventure story following the tales of four travelers and the little twists of fate that bind them both to each other, and to one man’s grand design for this new world.

Hiatus

Hello all! I hope you’re well and looking forward to the colder seasons. I really love Autumn and Winter (maybe not the darker morning side to it but there’s something about it that I adore).

Following on from my short break, I have decided to take a longer hiatus due to my reflections resulting in me wanting to reform my comic into a series of images as part of my PhD work. I’ve found the story I want to tell may not necessarily be told best in comic format – especially when I find the transitionary scenes between ones I most want to create more a chore.

Nonetheless, I will keep this website and the pages up. I never know, I may want to return to it for fun! For now I am leaving it indefinitely.

In the meantime, here is the next round of new comics from SpiderForest!

New Member Spotlight – Falling into a New World

Whether you’re stepping into a whole new planet, a seemingly-normal game, or your wildest dreams, these comics will let you escape from your normal responsibilities. But tread carefully, you may find more than you bargained for!

Ash in the Wind

Ash in the Wind – Alexis is a disillusioned college student who has lost interest in the real world. When a chance turns up to investigate a paranormal legend (and with the boy she’s been eyeing) she seizes it. But when dreams become reality, reality becomes a nightmare.

Foreach

Foreach – Jasper is an exorcist-in-training who feels beaten down by the pressures of life, friends and family. When it gets to be too much, Jasper likes to sit down and play a videogame called LOVE BOMB… but there’s more to this game than seems at first…

Slumbertown

Slumbertown – Slumber is an unsuspecting ghost town that ALSO happens to exist as a collective dreamscape of its 32 villagers! No one can quite remember how they moved to Slumber – or who or what is keeping them there.

NEVERMIND

NEVERMIND – Two 20-somethings, Jethro and Dolly, and their experiences with extraterrestrials, particularly a curious cyclops princess named Diesel, during the extremely crusty, grungy year of 1994.

Broccoli Soup

Broccoli Soup – Broccoli wakes up one day in a featureless void with no idea how they got there. The only other inhabitant of the void is their mysterious creator (and Very Best Friend) Lady Doris, who sends them away on missions to other worlds. Broccoli must bring Politeness and Goodness to the universe and make their creator proud, but there’s one problem: they don’t really know what Polite and Good even means.

New SpiderForest Members!

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.

Up to date

Haha! It took me all evening but we’re finally up to date with the comic 😀

Also all of the comic pages have gone through a resizing to make it easier to read so fingers crossed that works well for everyone. Any issues you spot, please let me know and I’ll work to get it fixed.

In the meantime, read through Teague Fagan to catch up to the latest page! I’m now free to make updates (though I will also continue to work on other art pieces to upload to the character page) so time to grab the pencil.

Next steps

Oh it’s been a busy day getting this website all setup but there is still a way to go. It’s been brought to my attention that the comic pages may be taking too long a time to load due to their file size so I will work to compress them myself so it’s easier for you as the reader. Also Chapter 2 will be uploaded next.

Thank you everyone for your patience. I will get this all sorted within the next week or two – depends on how much time I can dedicate to the website before the weekend. But I will work to get it all done asap.

I cannot wait for this all to be sorted because I am eager to get back to working on the comic itself. Poor Lord Reginald keeps staring at me with sad eyes so I cannot let him down!