The Secret Knots – Comics by Juan Santapau

Latest Comics

Abyssal

Posted on December 17, 2025 by Juan

New Secret Knots comic: “Abyssal”.

For those of you who are following the Secret Knots feed: here’s an invitation to the Secret Knots Discord server. People are talking, sharing bread recipes and odd facts about the world with the same intensity. Come say Hi.

‘The Rug’ comic Dossier

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Juan

There’s a complete dossier about the latest comic ‘The Rug’ with all the sources of inspiration and references, and some further mysteries over at Patreon. Also a new portraits treat is coming. Thanks, J.

Boarding School comic Dossier

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Juan

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I make one of these on Patreon for every comic: it contains background information, concept sketches, inspiration sources and references, and supporters get it on their email. I made this one public, so if you want to take a look, here it is.

A discreet reminder of the power source of these stories

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Juan

My patrons allow me to keep making comics for free on the internet. It works like this: they subscribe to one of the $1/3/10 monthly tiers (or cycle between them to get specific rewards) and I share with them details of my process, the world building behind every story, and I regularly make thematic portraits for them. (And there’s a fun online gathering coming in January) If this sounds like something you’d like to be part of in 2020, follow me on http://www.patreon.com/santapau If this is not for you, there’s another great thing you can do to power up Secret Knots, and that’s telling someone else about it. Tweet, post on Facebook, or share in a DM the Boarding School story, if you think that’d be their thing. Or that weird one, about a psychedelic interpretation of a poster, if they’are so inclined. Or the one one about werewolves, which LOTS of people love, probably because they’re werewolves. People trust people, not algorithms. (Trust me). And, above all, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me in your RSS reader, or checking out the site from time to time. I’d tell you something about the end of the year/decade, but I still have one more tale to tell this month. See you soon. Juan

“Boarding School” Patreon portraits

Posted on September 25, 2019 by Juan

Along with this new ongoing comic, I’m making new Patreon portraits related to its world. This time it’s open for pledges from $3 and above to get yourself drawn as a teacher of this school at the end of time, higher pledges let you choose a specific course for your character. Check out my Patreon here and keep in mind you can edit your pledge at any time to be part of these treats.