Dandelion Opossum - 2019

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But aside from that I don't think I actually have any idea what my first webcomic was? I was a big fan of story driven comics with long form stories. I wanted comics that were like the comics and manga I would read. So I never looked into the gag strip comics that would be shared as memes and jokes to even know what the series was or that they were even from a series.

It was a website called SmackJeeves that got me into webcomics. I went nuts on SmackJeeves when I found it. It was a website literally full of free to read of print format like comic with ongoing stories. I was reading almost every comic I could find on there that had a decently readable format that wasn't a fanfic kind of comic (there were lots of nuzlocks in it) Sure updates took a long time, and a lot of comics had really beginner quality art, and sometimes the series I would read were just dead and never going to update again, and a lot had very juvenile or poorly written stories. But it was FREE COMICS, and I was allowed to read as many as I wanted. Plus it was REALLY cool when you found comics that had art and story that just got better and better the further into the story you got. It was just a huge added bonus to see someone just growing in their craft, it was one of my fav things. I would start looking for comics with shaky art and layouts in their first chapters on purpose just to keep experiencing this.

Thing was though, all these comics and creators were very small so not many people besides me remember them, and I'm horrible at remembering titles and I read so many series that I just will never be able to remember their names. Though if you show me the art or a page from the comic I will likely remember it.

Thank you all for the kind comments in my last post. I'm sad to hear that many of you experienced the same pain from your own family as well. It's hard, but I hope we'll all be able to heal as much as we can, and still find beauty in this world.

Here's one of my old paintings that always made me happy. I recently returned from visiting the in-laws in Europe and the architecture there has been such an inspiration for new art. I'm excited to share those soon! <3