In early 2016 I finished an approximately 300-page script for a comedy webcomic set in the 1920s. This was a passion project I had been working on for three years and was, at the time, the longest thing I had ever written.

However, that was where it ended. I always wanted to draw it but was still developing my style and hadn't yet learned how to color digitally.

Now, four years later, with a more solidified style and experience drawing digitally, I've picked up that script once more.

Good Morning Mister Sunshine is a project near and dear to my heart. Though I am still a novice artist I've finally begun to finish what I started so long ago. Besides, what better way to get better at art other than, well, drawing?

Now, I'm unveiling this passion project and posting it publicly. I plan to host it on Webtoons and Tapas, update it once per month, at the end of every month, with early sketches posted on my Patreon as a part of the Likewise tier's Early Preview reward.

For a short synopsis of the project:

Daniel "Danny" Simms and Gerald Hoist are two very different men. One of them has spent his life keeping a poorly-stocked hardware store just barely afloat and the other has floated on his father's company's vast wealth. Both, however, have found themselves thrust deep into debt with the same very dangerous man, be that of their own bullheaded volition or the misfortune of inherited corruption. Now, both must work together to make work the brilliant solution of getting into debt with a different, perhaps equally dangerous, but definitely more eccentric, figurehead in a game of illegal speakeasies and street war history that goes far, far above either of their heads. Maybe all this could have had a simple solution, but where would be the fun in that?

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https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/good-morning-mister-sunshine/list?title_no=495092

Meet Anna!

I’ll be posting a few character design previews as time goes on- and then some actual character profiles leading up to the posting of the first page.

Here you also see the way I’m planning to stylize the comic itself. I want to go for an older, more vintage watercolor sketch style, mimicking some of the clothing sketches I’ve referenced when making their clothes.

Meet Aldo!

Fun fact - this whole story exists because of him.

Fun fact 2 - It’s also my favorite story of how any project of mine began.

In 2013 I was texting my friend, and, fun fact 3, I am a horrific texter. I can and will misspell everything under the sun if I’m typing on my phone. This included the phrase “Also good” which I misspelled and then sent to my friend as “Aldo Goid”

For some reason, this struck me as not only a funny example of my many texting mistakes, but also... seemed an interesting name for an interesting character. It was an odd name, for sure, but it had a fun ring to it in my ears.

So I started thinking- what kind of character would fit that name? And then, what kind of story would fit that character?

Meet Carmen!

Coming today at 2pm EST!

Webtoon: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/good-morning-mister-sunshine/list?title_no=495092