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Zyn Dweomer
17 years ago
I started posting pages from the new comic today. Official launch date is 12-31-08, but I wanted to get started with a bang so I'm doing a "7-days-of" thingie.
I noodled and doodled this comic for the past few months trying to come to a decision on format, story, setting. Most of it came very easily. I had the name picked out in 2006 and I knew it was going to be a riff on the classic FRPG genre that I cut my teeth on (starting with the D&D red box, Mentzer edition, c. 1984). But it wasn't until just very, very recently (like a couple of weeks) that I settled on the opening storyline and characters and the fact that I would populate this fantasy city with anthropomorphic animal characters.
I don't know if I'm a typical fan of the "funny animal" genre. I supposed just citing that term pretty much establishes where I'm coming from. My entry to this approach to comics (not really a "genre", is it?) was of course through a combination of classic cartoons like Warner Bros. and many of the old Hanna-Barbera characters, but also via certain comic books. Most notably was Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew by Roy Thomas and Scott Shaw (!). I discovered CCaHAZC purely by accident as a wee lad of maybe 14 years in a flea market 25-cent box. The owner of the market got discarded/unsold comics from local stores for cheap and sold them for a quarter each. I'd swindle my mother out of a couple of quarters each time we went there (we were sellers) and I just happened up on CC one day. For the next few months in that magical summer I hit that quarter box as often as possible and managed to put together a collection of the first 6 or 7 issues. I spent many, many hours re-reading them over and over.
Later I discovered Usagi Yojimbo and a few other titles but I don't think it's possible to over-state how magical and meaningful an impact CC had on me. Now I'm not doing superhero stuff at this point, but I'm wedding that great love of "funny animals" to my great love of old FRPGs and trying to produce a good, enjoyable, and hopefully sustainable comic series.
Take care all!
I noodled and doodled this comic for the past few months trying to come to a decision on format, story, setting. Most of it came very easily. I had the name picked out in 2006 and I knew it was going to be a riff on the classic FRPG genre that I cut my teeth on (starting with the D&D red box, Mentzer edition, c. 1984). But it wasn't until just very, very recently (like a couple of weeks) that I settled on the opening storyline and characters and the fact that I would populate this fantasy city with anthropomorphic animal characters.
I don't know if I'm a typical fan of the "funny animal" genre. I supposed just citing that term pretty much establishes where I'm coming from. My entry to this approach to comics (not really a "genre", is it?) was of course through a combination of classic cartoons like Warner Bros. and many of the old Hanna-Barbera characters, but also via certain comic books. Most notably was Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew by Roy Thomas and Scott Shaw (!). I discovered CCaHAZC purely by accident as a wee lad of maybe 14 years in a flea market 25-cent box. The owner of the market got discarded/unsold comics from local stores for cheap and sold them for a quarter each. I'd swindle my mother out of a couple of quarters each time we went there (we were sellers) and I just happened up on CC one day. For the next few months in that magical summer I hit that quarter box as often as possible and managed to put together a collection of the first 6 or 7 issues. I spent many, many hours re-reading them over and over.
Later I discovered Usagi Yojimbo and a few other titles but I don't think it's possible to over-state how magical and meaningful an impact CC had on me. Now I'm not doing superhero stuff at this point, but I'm wedding that great love of "funny animals" to my great love of old FRPGs and trying to produce a good, enjoyable, and hopefully sustainable comic series.
Take care all!
I will also post some pages here and at www.wizardsofur.blogspot.com