#sbcf24

some insight on Ba'It Garaang physical development. By 20 years of age they finish their most rapid period of growth and develop their individual "adult" plumage. Ba'It Garaang will continue to slowly grow for the entirety of their life, depending on available resources and their environment.

as an apology for not posting enough here on tumblr, please have some early character concepts for Expiry Date (available now on itch.io) <3

I hope you enjoyed the first 8 pages of my new comic "The Fool, The absolute Mad Woman" !

✨ 100+ b/w pages, a Romance-Thriller comic with a hint of comedy and eerie elements.

"I love her, so I follow her"

The digital comic is now available at @shortboxcomicsfair throughout October !

There’s a lot more to it than the preview pages I’m showing, but if you fancy Mulholland Drive, Hannibal and The Happiness of the Katakuris or if you just want to read something slightly spooky for halloween then maybe this will spark some interests !

FINAL DAY.

I'm at a loss for words - releasing this comic has been so amazing. The reception has touched me so deeply, your support means so much to me. THANK YOU, and to anybody picking up the comic today; I hope you enjoy it!!

Did you miss out on my ShortBox Comics Fair '24 comic, The Maker of Grave-Goods?

Well I've got some NEWS! The comic has been re-released digitally on my Ko-fi shop plus, I am working on the much-requested...

...physical risograph edition.

Yes, last October I said it wasn't going to happen. I didn't think it was feasible. There was so much love for this comic I was looking into pitching physical editions to a publisher or crowdfunding an offset print run. But, uh to make a long story short, did you see the US tariff chaos in the news? That halted those ideas for now. But I didn't give up, instead I got deep into bookbinding youtube and figured out how to do it myself. Sometimes international politics drives you to greater unhinged self-publishing heights.

A limited risograph edition printed with violet and hunter green inks is currently in production. Copies will be available at:

CAKE - Chicago, June 28-29

Flame Con - NYC, August 16-17

CXC - Columbus, September 20-21

My Online Store (ships worldwide) - aiming for sometime in July

Once again, I want to thank everyone for all their enthusiasm for The Maker of Grave-Goods during SBCF '24. It meant the world to me! I hope you will also enjoy the risograph edition, and if you haven't read it yet consider picking up a digital or physical copy!

ITS HERE!!!

THE VIEW FROM UP THERE is a 30+ page b&w comic about a crabby wizard hiding out up on a mountain as magic disappears from the world, and the ranger who's sent up to get her help.

Throughout the month of October, the Cartoonist Cooperative will be sharing interviews with members of the Co-op who have a new comic available at the ShortBox Comics Fair 2024! 

NOTE: The Cartoonist Cooperative is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way formally connected with ShortBox.  

Today’s spotlight is Tan Juan Gee ( @juangeedraws ) and their new comic for ShortBox, See You in Hell.

We’d love it if you could introduce yourself and tell us about your background in comics.

Tan Juan Gee: Hello! I’m Tan Juan Gee, a Singaporean artist. Right now I’m in my final year of university, studying sociology and fine art history. I’ve been drawing since I was little, but really only got into digital art after getting my first drawing tablet five years ago. Most of my work involves illustrating for indie tabletop games. I got into making comics around 2021 through online comic tournaments (or ‘OCTs’) and have had some great opportunities to draw comics professionally since–including last year’s ShortBox Comics Fair (SBCF 2023). Now I’m back with another comic for the fair this year!

Tell us more about your new comic.

TJG: Two girls with a messy past fight to the death in an abandoned city. It’s a short 16-page, fully coloured comic, with about ten pages at the end for an exclusive “making of” artbook and variant covers from friends!

Tell us about your creative process; how did you develop this comic and what are the steps you took to bring it to the final stage?

TJG: I won’t spoil too much because my comic PDF this year actually has a bonus “making of” artbook at the back that answers this question. Long story short, I had to scrap my initial draft. It was a story about two legendary criminals getting back together for one last job. I shelved this original idea for several reasons: it was too long, I kept introducing more characters, and I couldn’t settle on how I wanted the ending to go. With not much done at the end of my school semester I decided it would be far more productive to hone in on the key ideas of this first iteration and make a very tight and focused comic. I drafted out a comic that met SBCF’s minimum page count of 16, then finished it in two months while travelling.

This version leaves much of their past relationship and the current social, economic, and political climate of the setting they are in up to interpretation. But fundamentally the core of the comic remains unchanged–one angsty dynamic between two girls! I even got to reuse the design of the tall elf lady, which was great news. Don’t tell the short sword girl, but the tall elf lady is my favourite.

What were some challenges you faced with this comic and how did you overcome them?

TJG: You’ve probably noticed that my characters don’t have names. I tell myself it’s because the story means so much more to me when it’s two pathetic nobodies trying to kill each other. The truth is I really struggle with naming characters a lot! I also really struggle with dialogue. I blame this on the fact that my ideal character is a dark and brooding stoic lady who doesn’t speak. But can you really fault me? That kind of character is so cool!