#goth comics

Another devnny animation, I hope this is a good apology for my negligence. Because I did not do every single prompt 4 devnny week😢😢 I’m ashamed!!!!

This short story was born from my hyperfixation on victorian literature, gothic and dark stories and also... cemeteries 🖤

Art school is very demanding and I'm also working full time, this is the reason why my Wildehopps comic proceeds so slow but I promise I will update soon.

My character LILITH will finally be getting a comic series with Vault Comics! And we have something a little special for you guys B)

If you sign up with our reader campaign (🔗 above 👆), you’ll get the first issue free when the campaign kicks off! No need to pay for anything! You’ll get updates on the project and even have a chance to get some exclusives that we have planned. :3

But, honestly, thank you guys! I hope you all enjoy my little goil and her demon cat! ❤️

Before the year ends I want to thank everyone who supported my comics this year. HELLAWEEN is a massive passion project on top of my regular work, so all of your sales, reviews, fanart, memes, and shares mean a lot to me. Tumblr in particular has been vocally enthusiastic about the series and I appreciate you so so so much when I feel like my work is being tossed into a vacuum.

If you’re unfamiliar with HELLAWEEN and you like cartoons like Invader ZIM and Owl House you can read the first 20 pages HERE and the first 20 pages of the sequel, Spellbent HERE. They’re available from most book retailers, but my favorite is bookshop.org, a portion of proceeds go to help local book stores!

Twenty years ago, my holy comic trinity wasn't anything like the spandex-and-cape-clad muscleheads of DC and Marvel. It was kinda weird when I'd say to people "oh, I love comics" and then have to explain that there was a whole world outside the superbatmen and ironspiderboys and whatnot, let alone trying to tell people that stories involving killer burned-out artists, rotting dead girls, and lesbian witches were somehow great things to read.

But hey. It was validating as hell to get my ass to Nottingham once in a while (I lived some 17 or so miles away in one of the UK's most-shittiest towns, Mansfield) to browse either Page 45 or Forbidden Planet and have an entire shelving rack in a dark corner dedicated to the things.

The "goth comics" section. I think in Forbidden Planet at least, they had a label that said as much.

I got into comics through these things. I thought the hypermasculine superhero world to be, well, actually naff as all hell and couldn't see why anybody would be entertained by any of that nonsense (even if I later temporarily changed my mind when Robert Downey Motherfucking Sexyface Jr. played Iron Man for a bit...) and wasn't "into" comics per se until an acquaintance showed me Lenore by Roman Dirge.

It was, well, wonky as all hell. I wouldn't go as far as to say it was 'badly' drawn, but it gave me hope that, well, if this dude's drawing like this and making comics, then so can I! And I did for a bit, with Lenore by association leading me to Jhonen Vasquez' own Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (which is these days basically my personal Holy Bible, kinda-sorta) and Serenity Rose by JV's fellow Invader Zim character designer Aaron Alexovich.

But what happened to this shit? The publisher of this trinity, Slave Labor Graphics, seems to be a shadow of what they used to be - still publishing books, but their website seems happy enough to coast along selling what leftover Vasquez stuff they've still got in stock. But I just don't see any books of this ilk anymore.

Not really, and I do trawl my local Forbidden Planet in Sheffield quite regularly; lurking over the 'indie' section, as good as I can get, mostly to look out for new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stuff but also to check out anything spooky-looking. And there's not an awful lot save for reprints of the JTHM and (related side-story) Squee! trades.