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Cuthpert is Cuthpert Codpeace, Spirekassle's most prominent citizen. More about him in Volume 1 Book 3

Pewfell: Live Online Chat this Saturday Afternoon.

This weekend I'm participating in a Live Online chat hosted by RPGLife.com

I'll be discussing Pewfell, answering questions on the characters and world, how I make the strip and fantasy webcomics in general.

The event will take place in RPGLife's Live Chat Tavern, this Saturday, October 18th from 4pm until 6pm Pacific Standard Time (That's 7-9 pm Eastern, 12-2 am in the UK).

You might need to register for a free RPGLife account to get in, but otherwise simply point your browser to:

http://www.rpglife.com/phpBB3/chat

If you can, please do come by and participate as I've never done one of these before and it would be great to see some of you there.

Thanks!

Illyham

The Illyham project is a shared universe created on livejournal by Candians Sean Esty & Steve LeCouillard (Steve's 'Much the Miller's Son' was recently featured here on WoU). Illyham is a town in a swords & sorcery setting. The hope is that artists will come & post comics, and as more and more come together collaborating & feeding off each others work; a world will sprout up.


Here's their town history to set the stage:

"In the time before time, all the lands around this place are fetid swamps & stinking marshes, and Lizardmen & Frog People worshipe the Old Gods here. In the muck stands a city, and the city is called “Koa”.

Many ages pass. The world itself heaves shifts. In the turmoil of this new era rises a Witch King, and he spawns a twisted, evil army out of black magic. The races of Dwarves & Elves unite to drive back the armies of the Witch King to the frozen wastes from whence they came. In this era the Elves come to this land & build a city around the Red Tower. Together with the dwarven Empire of Grunom Kor (under the Gundar Mountains to the north), a line is drawn holding back the Witch King’s army. The Emerald queen is slain, and the elven King recalls High Elf armies back to their ancestral homeland. The Dwarves of Grunom Kor feel betrayed; relations between the races are strained.

Much, much later, to the north, the Human Empire comes into it’s own, riding to the aid of the dwarven people who are now embroiled in a war with the Goblin/Troll armies. A strong alliance is formed.

Illyham is now a human city, one of several independent towns and castles scattered along the Brokefoot Pass, beyond the Gundar Mountains. It is a wild, untamed land, north of the Southern Badlands and the Sea of the Wrath, where disposed nobles of the Human Empire may travel to rebuild their power. Constantly assailed by the hordes of Orcs & Goblins from the Badlands, these lands are rife with opportunity for mercenaries & adventurers alike.

Baron Korvin III, the Night Baron, returns Illyham. On the winter equinox of that self-same year, Korvin III orchestrates a coup as bloody as it is sudden. Since that infamous “Night of the black swords” Baron Korvin III has ruled Illyham from within the Red Tower to this day."

Wizards of Ur Fans are sure to enjoy the first stip posted there, Steve's 'Una The Blade'




Some more art from Steve & Sean:






For much more coolness in this vein, visit our Ur-like brothers in Illyham:
http://community.livejournal.com/illyham/

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Pedwyn the Jackal is also based on someone from the village where I lived in England, as is his frequent companion Fug the Barbarian. I used to wonder if it was OK to be ripping off my friends' likenesses, but I found out that everyone in E.C. Segar's 'Popeye' was based on people he knew from his home town, so if it's good enough for the maestro, it's good enough for me.

ELF `n TROLL # 227

Elfess

Doodling and thinking of far away lands. And warm, soft cookies with cold milk.

Still Breathing Air

Yeah, Mr. West is still breathing air and taking up precious space on Planet Earth 2008 C.E.!

Working two jobs, new baby in the oven, life is hectic but good.

Hope to start a hype countdown to Zyn Dweomer, a rude little dungeon comic, very soon. Brace yourself.

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I figured it was time to have Tina get into some action, and zombies are always fun to draw. I love Zombies... as you will know out if you have read Pewfell Volume 4.

Some people have commented that their blood is too red for zombies. Perhaps I should have gone all Frank Miller and done it black, what do you think?

ELF `n TROLL # 226

Atland #205 - The Dwarf Pope

Kris Verwimp

Kris Verwimp is a European artist whose work I have admired for years -- I've had a link to his work on my links page pretty much since I first had a links page. I just popped over to his site for the first time in ages and saw a ton of great new works. He had a very darkly gothic style and specializes in heavy metal album covers, which he has a ton of on his site -- he's really very prolific. His style is classic, but original at the same time, full of imaginative detail. It has a gritty, hand-made feel and is not overly polished, just full of raw emotion and really fun to look at.

Here's just a few of my favorites:














See more at his website here:
http://home.scarlet.be/krisverwimp/welcome.htm

One of the themes that runs through Pewfell is that no good deed will go unpunished. Particularly if Bish is involved.

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I have no real explanation for this strip. I can tell you that I don't like custard, so perhaps this is about that.

ELF `n TROLL # 225

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I drew many of the next few strips when Pewfell first ran as daily strip on the web way way back in the halcyon days of webcomics (2002). This one is kind of simple and not all that well drawn, but I still like it in a goofy kind of way.





Ah Bish, ya gotta love him, always up to some crackpot activity or another. He's my favorite character to write, as he pretty much always seems to just write himself. He's also based on a friend of mine from the same village in England, Ol West, who later went on to become brand manager for Budweiser in the UK. Again, it's more just the look of him, rather than anything to do with his personality, although Ol does have something of Bish's noble spirit about him. At the end of the day, I have found that all the characters in my comic, though frequently based on other people at the outset, end up really just being different aspects of my own personality. Make of that what you will...

By the way, bonus points if you spotted that the fourth panel of this strip is after Rogier van der Weyden's "St. George and the Dragon" c. 1432 in The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. I always though those dragons in the classical St. George paintings were rather too puny, and flet that they must have larger relatives lurking around somewhere.

ELF `n TROLL # 224

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Did I mention that Tina the Warrior Princess is based on my wife Tina? I used to think it was a bit strange that I was writing a comic strip about my wife being married to someone who looks like my friend, but now that Adam Prosser does all the writing I hardly lie awake worrying about it at all anymore.

Atland #204 - The Good Ol' Days

A Band of Orcs

Personally my musical tastes tend to lean towards the fiddle and the harpsichord, but I thought some of the more degenerate of my fellow wizards might enjoy this:



http://www.abandoforcs.com/