Rum Red

🏴‍☠️ Rum Red - Chapter 5 - The Shipwreck [DRAFT]

In the hopes that it will help them locate the sea witch, Lacey and Beavis are sent by their Captain on a mission to retrieve an enchanted map from a decaying shipwreck. But they're not the only ones searching for it.

🏴‍☠️ Rum Red - Chapter 4 - The Blacksmith

The detective duo investigate an ominous portside town, trying to locate the blacksmith who forged the murder weapon used to kill Timmy. Instead, they find a new part-time job, a mysterious cult, and an unexpected visitor.

🏴‍☠️ Rum Red - Chapter 3 - The Breakout

During a memorial for Timmy, Sly informs the Hippocampus of a fellow sea witch, with magic that may be able to bring him back from the dead. Her girlfriend, Jin, thinks this is a very bad idea.

🏴‍☠️ Rum Red - Chapter 2 - The Reunion

After being thrust into his dreadful hometown as the first step on the pair's quest for justice, Lochy grapples with what it means to be a pirate with only half his heart in the job.

🏴‍☠️ Rum Red - Chapter 1 - The Murder

A song is sung, a treasure is stolen, and a murder is committed. Babs and Lochy are set on their journey, turned from brigged captives to novice detectives overnight. Together, they explore the secrets of the Hippocampus ship and its crew in search of the hidden perpetrator.

ahoy to anyone still hanging around this account! I forgot to put out an update post for when I uploaded Chapter 3 back in November lol, but both that and Chapter 4 remastered are done and up now on the website, which means I'm all caught up on the pages I'd been posting here originally!! plus some bonus pages!

here's the link to CH4:

the website had another makeover which means you can now choose between 2 external file links to read each chapter, one in flip-through view and one as a scroll-view :3 you can also subscribe via email through the website now if you're interested in more direct-to-inbox updates for the project!! pretty cool and neat if you ask me

this was my landmark goal for 'finished rendered comic pages' LOL so the chapters from this point on are gonna' be the original draft doodles tidied up into a readable storyboard format, which I tested out on a future chapter and is gonna' look real niceys I think!

ok bye

● I put Rum Red on the shelf earlier this year for a lot of reasons, but I've never stopped working on it. I drafted a BUNCH of chapters as sketches for the comic pages, and I now have scripts for some of the (most challenging) chapters from book 3, with only 2 left to write until the draft is totally done!! I also made a whole animatic and a half! :-D

● Tumblr hasn't quite been working as a comic hosting platform, since there are just far too many changes I make on a regular basis for the quality and cohesion of the comic, and editing that here is a bit of a pain.

● so, after remastering the 4 chapters I've published here so far, and finishing ch5 to make all of book 1, I am going to be uploading them all here, on Rum Red's very own website!!! ✨✨✨

● chapter 1 and 2 are up there right now with shiny new rendering and a couple of brand new pages, too! the writing and pacing has all been tweaked so I'm hoping things read a lot smoother now. there's also a plot summary introduction and a character bio page where you can get to know the cast a little better!

● I'll be adding the rest of book 1 over the next few weeks, and then I'll... see how working on book 2 and 3 call to me, haha!! as such, this blog will be turning into more of an "updates" page similar to the one on Twitter, so if you follow here you'll be notified of chapter uploads and other progress with the project!!

● finally, there's now officially a Ko-fi account where you can support Rum Red, either through a one-time donation or by a monthly subscription. it'll take me some time to set up the rewards for doing so (which will most likely take the form of behind-the-scenes content and early access), but if you like what you read, any support you could give would really help the comic thrive!!

and if you happen to know of any pals of yours who might like it - send it their way! it'd really make my day. :-)

stay sailin'!!!