Still at my weekly run of uploading comics to Bento Comics, and this week we have a… story that isn’t quite one. Yet. You’ve all heard the story – the Magnum Opus that kinda dies in the making because the creator got distracted; the 20-volume story everyone has in them at the start of their career, before they move onto other, better things… Still, worth reading as a “mood piece”.
Rundown: Bento Comics is a new website that permits users to read and compile their own short story anthologies. It then prints the book at a printing company called Lulu, and delivers the personalised book to your door. A new publishing model, if you will.
Short Story of the Week: A little girl sits with her family inside their fortress, when a loud knock is heard through the door…
E-book: Available on the right-hand side of this page, where it says “Ebook Available in .epub!”. It’s DRM-free, and Epub can be read on all platforms EXCEPT the Kindle. I’d like to charge USD$0.99 for this story (like iTunes), but the system isn’t yet in place so you can download it for free.
If you don’t have an e-reader like the iPad or Nook, you an download e-readers for your PC – here’s 2 programs you can download: The Adobe Acrobat eReader, and the Barnes and Noble eReader.
Click here to read on Bentocomics.com!
This is The Story That I Just Can’t Let Go Of, because it has such a great beginning. It may have been drawn years ago, in 2003, but even then, you can tell that fantasy (cloaks and great halls and weird costumes) is one of my favourite genres to draw in. I simply throw a lot of time and energy into drawing Fantastical Settings, probably because I feel that’s where comics really outshine other storytelling mediums. It can take 12 hours and 1 person to draw a really evocative landscape in a comic strip, while in a movie it’ll take a team of animators and millions of dollars for an equivalent. There’s just no match for the springboard reality comics provides.