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Here's Page 5 and this is the last page of the comic I submitted to a collaborative zine. The 2 spiders finally are face to face with each other, for 1 time-stopping moment. Again, I find it funny in retrospect that I submitted this comic for a zine about lesbian coupled, anthropomorphic bugs and fish. This comic is pretty much as far as I could have gone away from that request, as was possible for me to do, and have it still be accepted. No bugs or fish, black and white, little to no words, and the couple the comic is supposed to be about, only shares 1 panel in the entire comic. This wasn't intentional, it just kind of happened as I wrote and drew out this idea.

So, about this last page. This page was in my head since I started, and most every other panel was made to build up anticipation for this one moment, and the one panel where Philly Audax and Lang Cidae finally meet. Sort of a love at first site moment, at least for one of them. To me, the building up of this contrasting atmosphere, between the liveliness of the club in the beginning, and the quiet loneliness of Philly's corner, transitioning to a shushing for the slow, sensual performance by Lang, and finally to the moment in time of them meeting, is all worth the other filler panels. I designed the last panel to be as said before, a moment where time feels like stops. That feeling when something absolutely enraptures you, and you can't look away. I wanted to make this panel that moment, and for the zine, be the ending of the comic. May be a bit underwhelming, but the payoff is supposed to be this moment.

You may notice, that there isn't any furniture in the last panel, and that's because I wanted to emphasize even more the feeling of time stopping, and the world around them seems to disappear. It was also an excuse to both make clear drawings of the 2 of them, without any visual distractions, as well as not having to pay even more attention to detail, as at the time I was on the home stretch and wanted to finish. I was actually running a bit to close to the deadline for submissions when drawing this last page, and only had a few days to finish the comic. I procrastinated a lot when on this project, which unfortunately is a habit that I still hold to this day.

I had about 2 months to do this, and finished page 1 and 2 at around 2 weeks in. Then, I didn't really work on it again until the submission was due in a week and a half. So yeah, pages 3, 4, and 5 were all done a bit rushed. I still made sure to keep detail and get the ideas I wanted down for the most part, but I axed the 10 page comic idea in favor of 5 because of that. The ending of this version, was always intended to be on this page, and to look like how it does, but there would have been more after. In retrospect, I do think that ending it there is still good, because I don't really think the ending I had in mind before would have turned out looking well.

I think that this page really gives the scale of the characters size. While Philly's feet don't even touch the ground while sitting in a chair, Lang has to kneel down and scrunch a bit to fit in the panel. That's a little comedy I like to do with my work, as well as being a bit wholesome. Throughout this comic, I wanted to make some small comedic moments that are present in each of the panels, if you look a little more around the panels. Mainly coming from the various spider people in the club, like the one spider that is an excited fan, and has to get carried away by her partner to another table, or the angry looking spider man leaning against the wall, then joining into the small band as a bassist, to the surprise of them. I just like that detail in comics that I read, since with each viewing, you can potentially find something new that you missed. It can make you chuckle or feel warm inside, and that's what I want this comic to be.

So yeah, that's it. This comic from a zine called Women Loving Wildlife, that I happened to find myself involved in. While this comic has definitely aged to me, this is so far my best work. Mainly because its a project that I managed to finish, and experiment with in order to make something that is very different to what I usually did at the time and different to what I do today now. The story itself, and the characters that spawned from it is nice and cute, but the most important thing that came from this was the world that I created for this comic. Since then I have had that world in mind for story in the future. Not so much about the characters here, but more about the culture of a world of spider people, in a cityscape mimicking 1920s aesthetics.

Hope you all enjoyed it.

Description
Here's Page 5 and this is the last page of the comic I submitted to a collaborative zine. The 2 spiders finally are face to face with each other, for 1 time-stopping moment. Again, I find it funny in retrospect that I submitted this comic for a zine about lesbian coupled, anthropomorphic bugs and fish. This comic is pretty much as far as I could have gone away from that request, as was possible for me to do, and have it still be accepted. No bugs or fish, black and white, little to no words, and the couple the comic is supposed to be about, only shares 1 panel in the entire comic. This wasn't intentional, it just kind of happened as I wrote and drew out this idea.

So, about this last page. This page was in my head since I started, and most every other panel was made to build up anticipation for this one moment, and the one panel where Philly Audax and Lang Cidae finally meet. Sort of a love at first site moment, at least for one of them. To me, the building up of this contrasting atmosphere, between the liveliness of the club in the beginning, and the quiet loneliness of Philly's corner, transitioning to a shushing for the slow, sensual performance by Lang, and finally to the moment in time of them meeting, is all worth the other filler panels. I designed the last panel to be as said before, a moment where time feels like stops. That feeling when something absolutely enraptures you, and you can't look away. I wanted to make this panel that moment, and for the zine, be the ending of the comic. May be a bit underwhelming, but the payoff is supposed to be this moment.

You may notice, that there isn't any furniture in the last panel, and that's because I wanted to emphasize even more the feeling of time stopping, and the world around them seems to disappear. It was also an excuse to both make clear drawings of the 2 of them, without any visual distractions, as well as not having to pay even more attention to detail, as at the time I was on the home stretch and wanted to finish. I was actually running a bit to close to the deadline for submissions when drawing this last page, and only had a few days to finish the comic. I procrastinated a lot when on this project, which unfortunately is a habit that I still hold to this day.

I had about 2 months to do this, and finished page 1 and 2 at around 2 weeks in. Then, I didn't really work on it again until the submission was due in a week and a half. So yeah, pages 3, 4, and 5 were all done a bit rushed. I still made sure to keep detail and get the ideas I wanted down for the most part, but I axed the 10 page comic idea in favor of 5 because of that. The ending of this version, was always intended to be on this page, and to look like how it does, but there would have been more after. In retrospect, I do think that ending it there is still good, because I don't really think the ending I had in mind before would have turned out looking well.

I think that this page really gives the scale of the characters size. While Philly's feet don't even touch the ground while sitting in a chair, Lang has to kneel down and scrunch a bit to fit in the panel. That's a little comedy I like to do with my work, as well as being a bit wholesome. Throughout this comic, I wanted to make some small comedic moments that are present in each of the panels, if you look a little more around the panels. Mainly coming from the various spider people in the club, like the one spider that is an excited fan, and has to get carried away by her partner to another table, or the angry looking spider man leaning against the wall, then joining into the small band as a bassist, to the surprise of them. I just like that detail in comics that I read, since with each viewing, you can potentially find something new that you missed. It can make you chuckle or feel warm inside, and that's what I want this comic to be.

So yeah, that's it. This comic from a zine called Women Loving Wildlife, that I happened to find myself involved in. While this comic has definitely aged to me, this is so far my best work. Mainly because its a project that I managed to finish, and experiment with in order to make something that is very different to what I usually did at the time and different to what I do today now. The story itself, and the characters that spawned from it is nice and cute, but the most important thing that came from this was the world that I created for this comic. Since then I have had that world in mind for story in the future. Not so much about the characters here, but more about the culture of a world of spider people, in a cityscape mimicking 1920s aesthetics.

Hope you all enjoyed it.