Author: Juan

In progress, march 18

Posted on March 18, 2024 by Juan

This from a new comic in progress, called, by now, “How to step out of the picture”. It’s slightly longer than other “bullet list” comics I’ve made, but still a short comic. There are a few more panels on Patreon, that I’m sharing as they’re finished.

Get a spooky portrait for this Halloween

Posted on September 4, 2023 by Juan

With Halloween on the horizon, I want to let you know in advance about the portraits I do of Patreon subscribers, during October.

As every year, instead of Inktober, I’ll be doing this: illustrating my kind supporters (or their friends) as some kind of creature of the night. Subscribers of any tier can get a portrait! This means you can ask for a drawing for as low as a pledge of $1/month

I try to have a different theme each time.

The theme for this year will be put to vote soon. When you join my Patreon, even if it’s for just a few months, you are helping me make more of my weird comics of The Secret Knots series, free for all to read. Your support is highly treasured in these uncertain times! Thanks a lot.

Lydia Ray comic book

Posted on January 27, 2023 by Juan
Lydia Ray

The comic collection I’ve been calling (mostly in my mind) the Lydia Ray Magazine is out now on DriveThru comics! And it’s doing good so far. It includes 3 comics with this character, that I’ve shared on this very website before, but they have been reformatted and re-lettered to look nice in the comic book format of this PDF. It also features a section with extras: sketches and inspiration notes, that have only been posted on Patreon exclusive posts so far. Here’s a direct link to buy this comic; all sales (and reviews) help me get visibility in this comic market, and get to new readers. Thanks a lot!

Secret Knots Newsletter

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Juan

Hello! I’m setting up a small newsletter for notifications of new comics and other blog updates. This is my first attempt at integrating a newsletter for this site, so apologies in advance if something doesn’t work out right immediately. Also, feel free to let me know about any issues. Thanks! Here’s the signup form:

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Bitácora • February 27

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Juan
Hansel and Gretel

Work notes: A full Dossier for the Basil Hallward comic is publicly available on Patreon, with sketches, concepts, photo references and more. If you enjoy taking a look at the odd and always unpredictable process of ideas taking form, as I do, it’s now free to access.

The comic has been doing well on Tumblr and here in the web version. The Tumblr version is modified to fit better most mobile formats, although I had to split it in two parts due to native restrictions there, and also because you don’t want to put an endless scroll in followers’ dahsboard (and then expect them to reblog said scroll). It’s slightly webtoonised it order to fit that format, but that’s nothing new here. It’s been several years since I’ve had to find a middle ground between traditional page format characteristics and scrolling format for my comics, and some stories benefit even further from passing progressively in front of the reader’s eyes. I guess a full conversion for this comic could have implied separating the shots of the actress Dita Lanner passing one by one on the screen for a cool motion pictures trick, but that’s an afterthought, and sounds like a full immersion exercise in webtoon format. Which is not to say that I shouldn’t try something like that some time…

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I didn’t know the work of Polish artist Zofia Stryjenska. For instance, her gorgeous series of Slavic Deities.

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Thank you very much for all the good feedback en the Basil comic. I’ll be back in a few days with some updates on the next Secret Knots story.

J.S.