Introduction... more like intro...fucktion

I quite like comics. Living in Australia there's not quite as much of a comic culture I think. At least I was never really exposed to it. But after my family got the net it wasn't long before I discovered the various blogs, comics and assorted avenues for expression. I've read some good stuff, and a lot of bad stuff. I figured if some of the comics that I don't rate can be that successful then I should have a go. I don't need or expect to be the next Penny Arcade I just want to do this thing.

I started writing comics with my friend Man-Child a little while back. He has some pretty sick drawing skills so he was gonna be the artist. Our friend Bumpkin was gonna help us out by making a website for the comic. Recently Manny's personal life has gotten a little more complicated and he can't really be a constructive part of the comic anymore, similarly Bump has gotten tied up with his studies. That leaves me, since I don't have a personal life and I don't study. Without Manny I've been forced to draw the comic myself. It's honestly not as polished as I'd like but it could be worse, (ie Unfettered by Talent).

I had a lot of trouble drawing the concept for each character. I knew how I wanted them to turn out, and Manny had originally done a great drawing for each character, but I was having trouble trying to convert that into my style (In short... I suck). So basically I had to overhaul the characters and they look different from how I originally wanted them but at the moment I'm quite happy with how they turned out so it's alright.

I have quite a lot of ideas I would like to produce and hopefully if this takes off I'll be able to use this is a forum to get those ideas across. I'm really not sure how this comic will be recieved but if it goes down, down, down then there's always one of my other ideas.

I have only recently started drawing again since I got a scanner, and I've come to the realisation that I'm just like my Dad. I hate technology. The truth is I'm incompetant and that frustrates me, I can't make my drawings look the way I want them and I can't get the computer to do it for me. So I guess you'll just have to put up with brilliant humour badly illustrated.

The first few jokes aren't very funny, I make no apologies for that. It's meta-humour at its worst but the nostalgia prevents me from cutting them. I hope you can suffer through them, or if you're lucky you've read a few good ones and now you're in the archives. I'm currently drawing comic#3 even though I haven't completed comic #1 or #2 yet. I'm like that...

Enough writing. I'll post a comic soon... or die trying.

Horus.