The Comic.

London, 2019. The country is bankrupt. Although as far as the City goes, nothing has changed. Still the playground of greedy banksters, dubious CEOs, corrupt politicians, spooks-turned-henchmen, international crime syndicates, socialites, gamblers and traffickers. The whole lot share one single objective - raking it in whatever it takes.
Enter Dan Smyzer and Kate Blyde, two top ops of the mysterious Section 45 of Britain’s Secret Civil Intelligence Organisation. Time to clean the place out. On either side of the law.

S & B is a kind of an experiment. The plot is firmly mapped out. However, there isn't a fixed script outlining every single panel on each page in advance. Just certain checkpoints to be passed at a certain time. And yes, this story has a definite end. Means, and from a writer's perspective, the "only" thing left to do now is to get there whilst making the journey as entertaining as possible...

How?

Pretty simple, actually. I get a cuppa coffee, switch on the computer, click on MS Power Point, open the slide show I use as a page template and start. Not to forget a cardboard box full of toy cars, action figures (apart from comic creators, is there anybody else who buys them these days?), toy guns, anatomy reference books and a desk lamp (to figure out the shading).

Letters (a free font called Webletterer) are courtesy of Blambot. Because hand-lettering is something one needs to be really skilled at. I ain't.

"Fortnightly? Can't you update more frequently?"

Wish I could. Unfortunately, and on average, I need about 25 hours to complete a page. And I wanna keep the 3 strips per page format. As far as S & B is concerned, any other page format doesn't really cut it. Updates are posted every second Friday and announced via RSS feed.

Who?

Not much to tell, really. I live in a remarkably unremarkable village in a remarkably swampy part of UKopia. And if I don't do what I have to do I do what I like to do. Which includes doing this comic.

What else?

"If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you."
--BRUCE LEE.

"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
--ALAN MOORE.

"Don't have the writer say, 'Panel one will be a long shot of Spider-Man walking down the street.' The artist may see it differently; maybe he feels it should be a shot of Spider-Man swinging on his web, or climbing upside-down on the ceiling or something."
--STAN LEE (on the early days of work at Marvel Comics).

"It's not movies and it's not 'fine art.' The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication."
--FRANK MILLER.

"I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do homages."
--QUENTIN TARANTINO.