Hi! I made a comic for Threads: Immortal! An anthology all about immortality, there's 16 total stories and they all have their own unique take on the theme, it has beautiful, funny and touching short comics from me and my fellow SpiderForest webcomic collective members.
The one I made is about what if a normal-seeming cat was immortal. Nobody knows how long she's been alive, or how long she will live but a musician that takes the cat in realizes it will most likely be longer than she can take care of her... so she asks for some help. I had a lot of fun drawing it! 😊
Check it out on Kickstarter! Spiderforest.com/kickstarter
Threads: Immortal is 25% funded 🎉 here's promo art for my story - The Gorgon Sisters' life-like statues and lightly used weapons emporium gets a challenging commission from Eros 🗿⚔️💗 1 of 16 stories from the SpiderForest Webcomic Collective, check out Threads: Immortal at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spiderforest/threads-immortal
(for the purposes of this poll, there is no monkey's paw situation: the chore you pick stays the same level of difficulty/grossness/etc. as it normally is for you, and you only have to do it as often as you want to. the chores you don't pick are magically done for you exactly the way you'd want them to be, just with zero effort on your part.)
I want to ramble a bit about my character design choices for my comic for the SpiderForest Threads: Immortal anthology! And since this is my blog you can't stop me >:)
My comic for the anthology takes place sometime in the prehistory of the setting for Clover & Cutlass. I wanted the people we see in this timeframe to combine traits we see in the "modern" C&C setting (pointy ears! tusks!) with ones we haven't really seen anyone have yet (fur! stripes!).
As a big ol' nerd about Textile And Clothing History I spent a while pondering what kinds of spinning or weaving these folks would have access to. The flat strips of material used here could potentially be leather sewn together with tendon, but I think it's likely that at least some of that is fabric created via backstrap weaving.
They definitely have the basics of spinning though! The necklace this gal is wearing is plant material spun into a single-ply strand and then coated with red ochre pigment. If there's one thing people have loved doing across all areas of history, it's Make Pretty Thing To Wear.
The anthology this comic is in is currently raising print funds via Kickstarter! You can check out the campaign here, and if it piques your interest enough that you toss some money our way, I will owe you my sword in fealty. Thanks for reading!
"Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed"
Okay for context the other rabbit is nanabozho! (Also called Wenabozho, Nanaboozhoo, Nanabush and Manabozho, they have a lotta names--) and he's a prolific and prominent character in many of my people, the anishinaabe (Ojibwe), stories!
I drew him interacting with el-ahrairah because he reminds me so much of nanabush-- they both have a connection to a higher power, their gods, both are tricksters, both are part of their respective creation myths, and both care deeply about their people!
Nanabozho is a shape shifter, while he takes many forms their most common is a hare! So that just made me think of them even more fjdndndn
(I posted this on insta a while back and the artist for the Watership Down graphic novel liked it and I still haven't recovered mentally from that--/pos)
Oh btw, nanabush is genderfluid, no I am not joking--