Ending two long-standing webcomics in one year is a lot.
But I’m so happy with how Dead City turned out.
I love these boys so much and I never could have made it this far without my partner Michelle who stuck with me through the whole thing and wrote such a great wholesome comic.
I know a lot of people were expecting more from it. More zombies, more action, more drama, but that’s not really what Dead City was about. We knew from the start that it was going to be pretty zombie-free, we wanted to focus more on the characters and them growing closer than make it another “Walking Dead”. Mikael and JP would meet, grow closer, fall in love, journey through Toronto to JP’s fancy apartment and be safe together with a hint of hope at the end that everything’s going to work out.
This was a way for Michelle and I to learn how to create comics together and it was never going to be a 1000 page epic, we didn’t want that for our first story but even still it did manage to get pretty long at 330 pages.
I also think ending it during a world pandemic is pretty powerful. It’s hopeful. Everything’s going to be alright!
I hope everyone enjoyed our first comic and I’m really looking forward to what’s up and coming for us in the future! In the mean time you can check out all the Dead City art I’ve posted up here while we take a break before posting up some one-shot comics for y’all!
I can’t thank everyone enough for reading this and supporting us. Thank you!
It’s a two page update today on Dead City where we finish off our story. We hope you read both pages and we thank you so much for reading our little webcomic!
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Dead City: A zombie apocalypse has happened and Mikael and JP are left in the city trying to survive after most of the population has fled. A slice-of-life post-apocalypse comic. Sometimes you find love in weird places. Like when you’re trying not to get eaten.
First of all, Fujiko’s outfit in Dragon of Doom is my favourite. Second, pantsuit old lady Fujiko is the most powerful thing I’ve ever drawn. Again this is for a fancomic concept I’m working on~
You know Goemon would be a fancy ass old man. I had a lot of fun drawing him and thinking about him as a stoic but kinda goofy grandpa!
Jigen concepts from March for my fancomic I’m working on. He’s gotta be a grumpy old man even though he’s got nothing to really be grumpy about.
More practice! The more you love something, the more you draw it, and thus the better you get at drawing it!
Never leave Fujiko out! Here’s studies I did and she might’ve been the easiest to redesign!
Some jazzy tunes on today’s Dead City.
Latest Page | Read from the beginning
Dead City: A zombie apocalypse has happened and Mikael and JP are left in the city trying to survive after most of the population has fled. A slice-of-life post-apocalypse comic. Sometimes you find love in weird places. Like when you’re trying not to get eaten.
I feel like Zeni’s been the easiest to draw but I couldn’t leave him out, and a learned a lot about his face this way!
