THE COMIC
The beginning!
The reason I started doing this comic was a request from my friend Sara, she wanted me to do a short comic. “Yeah, about
what?” I answered. She told me, and I did The First One, witch is
actually the 2:nd one here because it seemed to
fit into the story there for some reason . “That was fun” I thought and did The
Second One, not appearing on this page, because it doesn't seem to fit anywhere.
After that my friends started asking a lot of questions like: “Who are they?”, “What are they doing in space?”, “Why are
they dressed so strangely?” and finally “Does the second guy ever talk?”.
Then I made the 1:st one (not to be confused with
The First One) and begun this story. Because of these questions my mind
went in to overdrive, there were nothing I could do about it, I just had to hang on and see where it led me. My mind came up
with too many new characters without asking me first, and suddenly I sat there with a grand space adventure.
The Site
To tell the truth, if it were up to me there would be no site.
I’m not the kind of person who thinks people will enjoy what I’m writing…. So it took a bit of a persuasion from my friends
to make this. We had a lot of ideas of what the site should look like.
Like this or like this?
I wanted something simple, yet elegant and practical,
every web designers dream… And I’m still not satisfied. Since the comic itself is not that intensive in its looks, I’ve
decided that the site should look like this: A giant paper of some kind.
Why is this comic ugly?
I spent a few minutes reflecting over this comic and why I do it, and I realised this: I do not do it because I want to make
a comic. I do it because I want to tell a story, and the comic format was the best way to tell it. Most small amateur comics
have the approach of the art. They are like: Hey, look at my good looking comic, I’ve got triangular panels, it’s awesome!
(And, it IS) Well my comic is ugly. It’s not because I can’t draw any better, I could make it fabulously nice, lots of colour
and triangular frames. (But it would take time). Of course it’s nice with a nice surface, but it’s just a surface. I am not
the comic artist that begins with the surface to later realise there is something missing beneath it. I’d like to work the
other way around with my stories, make a story and then choosing the comic media if it suits that story, and in the end,
maybe someday, I will fix that surface.
The Furure
Wow, that’s a big issue!
Well this comic will probably continue for a while, maybe with a lot less regular updates when it reaches the point I’m
writing now. I know how this story will end but that lies a long time and many hundred strips into the future.
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