2016

2016 feels a bit like a year of missed opportunities. I was too much of a perfectionist writing my comics and would agonise over every panel, which didn't end up making for better comics in the end but stifled my creativity. I also had a tendency to go for super ambitious projects and would perfectionise over every detail in those too. I didn't get a lot done.

the Evil Very Bad Man

This comic was a more story based take on the Evil Very Bad Man that I had invented the year before, this page was meant to be the first in a series in a series of one pagers showing a descent into madness, with the crimes getting less amusingly pathetic over the series until eventually our main character (unnamed as was customary) woke up having killed someone. This series is just one of many unfinished projects as you will see.

I attempted a comic strip format, though I clearly hadn't quite grasped the concept quite yet. This one shows the Evil Very Bad man switching behind a tree and stealing a wallet. I guess I was more focused on the art?

Marblehead one pagers

Again, not quite grasping the concept of a joke, the punchline is food poisoning

A more literal interpretation of the 'punchline' 

Benny and Nikita

Benny and Nikita were two older students at my school who were pretty tight. I used to hang out with them every lunchtime. I proposed the idea of a comic based off their fast paced, improvisational relationship dynamic (with aliens too and a whole alien civilisation including an alien language). It never happened but you can find the notes and bits here

These two comics were the start of what would be a secondary series of one pagers showing an increasingly strange and silly journey to the Moon and back and was set before the events of the main series. Would you guess? It was never finished.

Marblehead, the End

Towards the end of the year I began work on the last Marblehead comic, which soon became a series of comics to finish Marblehead for good, and, like every other series I attempted this year, was quickly abandoned after the first issue