the secret knots

The Secret Knots is now part of Koala Wallop! There are forums there (including a forum for this comic), and brilliant comics such as Perfect Stars, Order of Tales (and Rice Boy) and Bear and Kitten. These are visually eloquent comics, and reading them will undoubtedly improve your day.

From now on, Newbs from Perfect Stars is hosting this website, which is really great. So this is me tapping the microphone and testing things: i’ve uploaded a test comic directly to the archives. It is actually a repost of an old comic from my long abandoned blog but maybe you haven’t read it: it’s called “secret floor” and it’s here.
Right now i’m drawing all the rest of the “Unspeakable” comic in order to post it with regularity once it’s finished. I think it’ll worth it. As always, thanks for visiting and reading, and hello! to everyone who didn’t know the comic.

So we say farewell to these characters, at least for a while. I wrote a comic related to the “Truth fairy” in a manner of an epilogue, but it is kind of independent so I think it may wait. The next update will be the comic with your pictures and I foresee it will be something special, to say it somehow.

I ‘ve been working on the script for the next comic, making some considerations about format and narrative. With the story I’m ending now, I found myself drawing progressively longer sequences, trying to break the tale into units with a certain sense of chapters. This turned out to be very time consuming in this particular shape, besides the clunky look of these tall “pages”. It also determined the shape of the frames and its content. This two subjects, satisfactory advance of the tale and “page” format seem to show drastically different narrative approaches in many online comics with ongoing storylines. I’m now planning the story arc in a series of short, quicker updates and in this process I’ve remembered the very first comics that I read as a child, newspaper Flash Gordon strips if I recall correctly. Somehow these two or three panels strips showing the characters in constant cliffhanger managed to show me at the same time a larger and wondrous lanscape and seemed to function as little narrative bits. (Besides getting me hooked into comics forever). There’s probably many other examples of publishing formats that allow us to think outside of the box of a twenty something pages comic boook or other current conventions.