Anthropomorphic animals have long been used by amatuer and pro creators to express intangable truths and values.There's not a whole lot of crossover comics between True-story, Manga, Superhero, Graffiti-style and Anthro comics; each genre having been skillfully developed for a specific fan-base. As an Anthro web-comic artist, I occaisionally wonder if I've chosen the best vehicle for expressing Spiritual truth.
Anthro comics have a huge "fun factor" and permit a lot more freedom of direction in characters, expressions and plot directions. And like with spandex and sculpted superheroes, both fan and creator soon get past what the character is and get into their motives and values.
I just wrapped up a year-long story, AbalonofCalifornia, on Deviant Art gallery and decided to let my readers ask questions of the characters: https://www.deviantart.com/bscruffy/art/Ask-Character-a-Question-895960855 . The questions have been fun, and I tried to keep the answers fun as well. One of the main characters, Patron, is clearly a 'Christ-figure' in the story, and a reader asked Patron "Are you the patron saint of anything other than Abalon?" CSLewis (Author of the Narnian Chronicles) had one of the principle characters pose this question to Aslan, the Christ-like Lion of Narnia: "Are you just the King of Narnia or are you in all worlds"? Whew; loaded question!
As I considered how my character, Patron, would answer...and how Christ might answer...and I looked to the Gospel of John, chapter 10, where CHrist goes deep into his identitiy; I considered what a powerful vehicle "funny animals" can be.
I get email announcements about the current series of (fall2021) livestream interviews being moderated by Geoff Strout, Thursdays at 6pm pacific time. I've missed every livestream so far, for too many excuses to bore you with, but since the interviews (usually about an hour+ long) are saved on the CCAS facebook site ( https://www.facebook.com/christiancomicarts/videos ) its completely easy to go back and listen to them later. Full of great insights, advice, and connection; these interviews are really worth hunting up and listen too.
Introducing a new ministry that may be of interest to fellow comics creators and fans. Would love it if you would check it out and share with any cartoonists or manga fans in your life.
“Waypoints” is a manga anthology series produced in Japan, featuring stories taken from the Gospels, with each tale told from the point of view of someone whose life was changed by encountering Jesus, each story illustrated by a different artist in his or her own style.
Waypoints is brought to you by Drawbridge Creations — a web-based manga outreach with the three-fold purpose of reaching the unchurched, resourcing the Church, and empowering Christian artists, in order to bridge the gap between Church and culture; between Jesus and Japan.
We truly hope Waypoints will become a useful and effective tool for missionaries in Japan and others who are looking for creative ways to build spiritual bridges with Japanese people (or English-speaking fans of manga). Please check out this series at waypoints.jp (Japanese) or waypoints.jp/english. Or find out more about our ministry at drawbridgecreations.com.
I'm so excited to announce that my graphic novel The Spirit Seeds Book 1 has gotten a professional review from OnlineBookClub!!! Big thank you to the reviewer, Trina High.
"The trailer for this tale says that readers will suffer a side effect of "obsessing over the story," and I can certainly testify to that! By page three, I was deeply engrossed in the telling, and I didn't stop reading until I'd completed the book. And then I read it a second time the next day. Then I reread my favorite parts a few days later. ..."
You can read her full review here: https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewtopic.php?p=1743142&sid=4ebd8d4d3c08bacbfab54b014ae60927#p1743142
Hope you enjoy!! 😄
Hello! I'm Miranda_Artz. A freelance digital artist, animator, and comic creator. I work in a variety of artstyles ranging from cartoony to anime style. I have dabbled in Mavel/DC artstyles in the past and I have all kinds of artwork on my portfolio to look at. Check it out! 😁 https://www.mirandaartz.com/portfolio if you'd like to see reviews from people who have hired me in the past please visit: https://www.fiverr.com/mirandaartz
When Covid19 lockdown started in March last year (in Australia), Daz and I started creating this SAMSON comic together. We agreed to do an 8-page mini comic and make it as awesome as we could, just for fun. We also decided to make it mature, as in for teenagers and adults, not kids. Pretty soon we agreed it needed to be at least 12 pages. 6 months later the art was getting attention, and we expanded it to 16 pages. Now it's 20 pages, we also have a statue designed 🤯 and there's posters on the way.
Here's possibly my favourite page in the comic; where Samson goes nuts against hundreds of enemy soldiers, with just the jawbone of a donkey. We spent AGES trying to make this page look cool.
Season 1 of Falcon and the Winter Soldier is officially done....what did everyone think? (Without spoilers!)
Did it live up to your expectations? Better? Worse?
Hey everybody!
I'm a little late on sharing this but Ultimate Millennium #1 is available now!
A couple weeks ago I uploaded an update that it was off to be printed, and since I've obtained the copies ready to be distributed!
You can acquire one via messaging me through here or through Instagram, or at your local comic shop!
Visit my instagram page @ryderlcomics to see which stores carry it! (Under the highlight UM #1)
LINKS:
https://www.instagram.com/ryderlcomics/?hl=en
Thank you guys for the support and for your patience!
