Ariel and Ricky

Hello, blog. It’s been a while. Years, in fact, since I posted anything. Twice the Triplets has been keeping me busy. And when I’ve been taking breaks from it – as I am right now – I’ve usually been preoccupied with other matters.

But it occured to me that I have some more Ariel strips that I never got the chance to show anyone. Ariel, of course, being a comic I created a few years back and only ever made a handful of strips of. I’ve blogged about it before.

The Ariel strips I’ve posted previously only feature two characters – Ariel herself, and her mother Eve. The remaining strips add another character to the comic; Ariel’s friend Ricky.

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Ariel

Ariel was a little project I started on during my annual summer break from Twice the Triplets in 2016. I wanted to do something simpler, with shorter gags and few characters. The result was a four panel strip series featuring a little girl named Ariel and her single mother Eve. Only two characters in the main cast, in other words. Quite a difference from the ever expanding cast of Twice the Triplets. Continue reading

Resurfacing ideas

Last night, after having thought a lot about the future of Twice the Triplets, I was reading some scripts I wrote a while back. These were scripts not for regular gags, but for longer stories (15+ pages) that just wouldn’t fit within the regular format of the comic, which means that if I am to actually make these it would be a separate thing from the main 2×3 series, which in turn means that finding the time to do it would be very difficult. So I was reading through them to see if I think, at this point in time, that these stories are worth telling or if I should just scrap the ideas entirely. I still haven’t really made my mind up.

But I stumbled upon a surprise when I was looking through my “Writings” folder: A (partial) script I’d written for an entirely new comic I never went through with actually making. Now, I’ve done a bunch of these over the years, but what made this one special was the fact that I had completely – and I mean completely – forgotten everything about it: The idea itself, the fact that I ever had the idea, the fact that I wrote the script and just about everything that happened in it. Almost a little strange, seeing as it’s been less than two years since I wrote it. It did start to slowly come back to me as I was reading it, but for the most part I was looking at it with fresh eyes just as any reader would. I found the idea to be fun and full of potential, and I would love to go back to it some day and turn it into an actual comic.

One snag is the fact that the script is unfinished. I do remember now that I did have plans for how the story would play out further – I just don’t remember what they were. Which is especially frustrating because the script ends at a point where the characters were about to carry out som well laid plan… Guess I should have written that down back then, eh? Oh well. Maybe it’s buried somewhere in the back of my mind and it will come back to me. Or maybe, if at some point I decide to do this comic, I’ll be able to come up with something new that works just as well.

In any case, add one more to the list of comics I’ve created in my head that I would like to do one day.