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Eighteen Eighty one
Posted on January 29, 2026 by Juan

Edit: thanks to Reddit user garlic_lollipop who pointed out that the comic was missing the last panel! It's fixed now.

New Secret Knots comic: "1881".  If you know someone who you think would like it, you can easily share it with the button to post on Mastodon, Bsky, Facebook, etc. That's how people get here most of the time.

This comic was brought to you thanks to the support of kind Patreon subscribers, such as Phil Gooch.

I'd love to have a palindrome that made sense to add here in the text, but I think I've had enough of flipping things for a while; there will be a full dossier post about this comic, with extras and references, on Patreon soon, though. 

Wait! Here's one: ailihphilia ;)

Process: a cursed play

Posted on November 11, 2025 by Juan

The Secret Knots’ process involves more withdrawing of ideas than i’d like to.  I’m steadily pushing forward a new comic now after a couple of false beginnings with dismissed stories, convoluted mysteries or awkward artifacts, not ready yet to be put in comic form. The sketches you see here are part of the skeleton of the next comic, a story about a mythical stage play I expect to finish drawing very soon.

I came up with the idea for a theater play-related story while watching an anime series with a long name: Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, a story of two students of a specific form of performatic entertainment called Rakugo. It’s a very beautiful and skillfully told story.  My own story ended up having nothing to do with traditional Japanese theater, but it was never the intent. It’s more of a new entry in the list of non existent works of fiction often featured in the Secret Knots comics.


Thanks for your support!


Juan S.