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Spark Comic 44 - Meet the Cast

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July 6th, 2012
Spark Comic #44 - Meet the Cast


Hey there Sparky fans! My apologies for being so late with this week's comic, I've been both busy and in bad health for the past little while.

It occurred to me a while ago that I've never formally introduced any of the characters, outside of notes in the description for some of them. I thought that since this week is the 1 year anniversiary of my website that it would be the perfect time to do a rolecall.

It's still very surreal that the website has been up for a year now. It was only last year that I was just finishing my first year of University and my professor gave me kind words ("Continue your comic, or else") that encouraged me to continue making comics and the website came in a few months after that. It's not the anniversary of Spark Comics itself though, I started doing them occassionally since December 2009 and only started doing them regularly last year. It may be a bit of extra work, but it is one of the driving forces that really encouraged me to continue the comic for the past year.

Portraying all the characters here was quite difficult. Sure, I had had these designs decided upon a long time ago, but I had to update and redesign many of the characters to match my improved skill in drawing in this style. Some of these characters look almost NOTHING like their original incarnations (eg. Airadi was in Spark Comic #35 and looks totally different now). I included all the characters from Spark Comic 21 as well as a few others. I didn't include EVERY character I've used, but just the ones who either have had significant appearances or that I want to use in future comics. I've had to create this style of drawing myself and it's not as easy as you'd think. I made the basis of it by taking bits and pieces of other comics I loved as inspiriation and it fell upon me to improve that template and make it look somewhat original. I think I've come a long way to doing just that and while it's not perfect, it is fun to draw with.

In the past year though, I've noticed I seemed to have improved a lot. The comic looks much less crappy now than it did a year ago, characters are less boldened, I have a better hang of storytelling, my workflow has changed dramatically, and I've gotten kinda serious about this whole side-project experiment that I never thought would actually blossom into this. I'm even slightly improving my ability to be timely on these things (Which is an ironic thing to say since this comic is a few days late). I do enjoy making these and I'm glad some people get enjoyment out of it. As long as people are laughing and enjoying it, I've done my job. I hope you enjoy my comics and continue to enjoy them for as long as I'm doing them.

See you next comic! :)
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I always thought Ronald McDonald was scary . . . he's probably a child molester or something.