About Three Stories

As my first comic published by someone else with actual professional printing I was very excited to make these comics after being asked by Matt from Hic and Hoc Publications.

The comics

Having worked primarily in realtively short stories at the time I decided to stick with that format for these comics rather than making a single narrative. Each comic has a completely different drawing method, but they are held together by a sort of eeirie disquiet feeling I put into them.

Pack Rat

Pack Rat is a wordless comic about collecting. Amassing more and more found objects together and carrying them through a littered landscape.

Pack Rat started from the a drawing I did during a slow period while working as a bartender of a rat carrying a huge load of various items drawn from the different things I saw around me.

Pear

Pear is a horror comic about a turtle trying to enjoy a peaceful day at a pond when a mysterious creature interrupts their meal.

Pear is the closest to the other sorts of comics I was drawing at the time when I was asked to make a book with Hic and Hoc, lots of brush work and cute animals involved in horror stories. At the time I was interested in early Japanese Horror Manga like the work of Hino Hideshi, but my comics aren't nearly as creepy.

Howl Hole

Howl Hole is about two friends trying to understand a strange wolf who they see howling in the forest every night.

This comic is the saddest in the collection but I enjoyed telling the story from the obscure point of view of two outsiders rather than the central character. The comic was originally going to end differently than it does but I decided to make it more emotional instead.