The SpiderForest Webcomic Collective is currently Kickstarting our fourth comic anthology! This book features 17 short comics centred around the theme of ’Secret Places’.

For this anthology I contributed a 10 page story, The Tell-Tale Violin; a parody on the classic Poe tale featuring Anor along with a pair of new characters (with some help from Deo Iadicicco of Millennium, who inked the backgrounds on the first five pages). This short takes place about 20 years before the fall of the old daemon town.

I’m also offering a PDF that contains the first arc of Ashes (chapters 1-6) in the CyberSpider bundle. It has crisper, higher-res pages than are available in the online archives. And if you back a tier with the print bundle, you can find a 5×7 print of Anor in the rain.

This anthology has a lot of fantastic stories in it, and I’m excited about bringing the project to life. Spiderforest has multiple successful Kickstarters under our belt, and this one is already half funded. Help us reach 100% and get a gorgeous book for your comic collection!

June News

Posted In: Comic Updates, Site News

Summer has finally arrived, and despite both my comics being on hiatus, I’ve had a lot to do.

Speaking of hiatuses, Ashes’ hiatus is being extended to July. I had set May aside to finish a short comic project, but thanks to Covid stress, I ended up escaping into Animal Crossing and didn’t accomplish anywhere near as much comic work as I’d planned. I’m nearing the home stretch on this project, however. With only a few backgrounds left to ink, all I need to do after that is colour 5 pages, which, while time consuming, isn’t nearly as difficult as sketching and inking.


I now have a Gumroad store! Observant visitors to my site may have noticed the new Shop tab in the menu that stealthily appeared a couple of weeks ago. There you can purchase downloadable PDFs of Ashes chapters with shiny colour covers (ooooh) and higher res pages than are available in the archives (aaaah). The money I get from these PDF sales will help cover hosting and supplies costs so I can keep making free comics! Eryl chapters will be added eventually, so keep an eye out for that.

I also have another product in the works! Do you like phone charms of your favourite comic characters? That’s a silly question, of course you do. Well, I’m working on getting some reversible charms made of Anor and Rava. I can’t make concrete promises, but I’ve ordered samples of these designs, and if they turn out well, I can order more and put them up for sale (and maybe some Fawna and Flowerlark designs will happen too, who knows!). These might need to be Kickstarted, but it will depend on what my financial situation is when the time comes. The manufacturer is in the UK and international mail is pretty slow right now, so it could be a while before I even have the samples in hand.


And lastly, don’t forget that The SpiderForest Webcomic Collective is opening up applications very soon! Please read through our application FAQ and join us on the forums and Discord to chat, ask questions, and talk shop about comics!

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