The Battalion – part 2 of 3
Posted on May 26, 2026 by Juan

New Secret Knots comic: The Battalion. (Part 2 of 3). It took some time to get here due to real life stuff, but I'll try to move on quicker with the final part. Thanks for your patience, and I hope you like it.

Remember you can follow the process on Patreon, also a newsletter I wrote about thought bubbles, a sort of companion piece to this story.

Changes and tests

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Juan

From now on, Newbs from Perfect Stars is hosting this website, which is really great. So this is me tapping the microphone and testing things: i’ve uploaded a test comic directly to the archives. It is actually a repost of an old comic from my long abandoned blog but maybe you haven’t read it: it’s called “secret floor” and it’s here.
Right now i’m drawing all the rest of the “Unspeakable” comic in order to post it with regularity once it’s finished. I think it’ll worth it. As always, thanks for visiting and reading, and hello! to everyone who didn’t know the comic.

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Juan
So we say farewell to these characters, at least for a while. I wrote a comic related to the “Truth fairy” in a manner of an epilogue, but it is kind of independent so I think it may wait. The next update will be the comic with your pictures and I foresee it will be something special, to say it somehow. I ‘ve been working on the script for the next comic, making some considerations about format and narrative. With the story I’m ending now, I found myself drawing progressively longer sequences, trying to break the tale into units with a certain sense of chapters. This turned out to be very time consuming in this particular shape, besides the clunky look of these tall “pages”. It also determined the shape of the frames and its content. This two subjects, satisfactory advance of the tale and “page” format seem to show drastically different narrative approaches in many online comics with ongoing storylines. I’m now planning the story arc in a series of short, quicker updates and in this process I’ve remembered the very first comics that I read as a child, newspaper Flash Gordon strips if I recall correctly. Somehow these two or three panels strips showing the characters in constant cliffhanger managed to show me at the same time a larger and wondrous lanscape and seemed to function as little narrative bits. (Besides getting me hooked into comics forever). There’s probably many other examples of publishing formats that allow us to think outside of the box of a twenty something pages comic boook or other current conventions.

Special guests

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Juan
It’s that time of the year when you get to put your face in my slow motion soap opera The Secret Knots! Send me your photo(s) to gemeloperverso (gmail), or a link to your flickr, photobucket etc. I think it works better with a least two shots if you care for likeness. Of course, if you really perceive yourself as a blurry shadow in the background, that’s ok. Some of my best friends are like that. I am like that sometimes. This will be a single page comic I’ll do between the end of “The Truth Fairy” and the next long comic. I don’t know what it’ll be about yet. Maybe it’ll have the words red, suspicious, come, tunnel, anymore, who, knows. But it may have you…