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BentoComics.com – A Short Ghost Story

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Well, this weekly run of uploading comics to Bento Comics is coming to a close. After this story, there’s only one more story before the whole 8-week run is over. It actually felt like a really, really long time.

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: One of my earliest stories, but one which still holds some power. Why is it that ghost stories always happen in girl’s toilets? Here’s one that I heard from my sister many years ago.

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.

 

A Short Ghost Story

Click here to read on Bentocomics.com!

 

I wrote this story after hearing a similar story from my sister, involving a girl’s school toilets that had no mirrors. It was the only toilets in the school with no mirrors, so naturally people “talked” about it. Girls seem to love telling ghost stories about isolated places in the school, and my own high school experiences were no different, except that no memorable stories came out of my high school stint.

 

BentoComics.com – The Two-Dollar Deal

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Wahaay! Two more stories until I end my weekly run of uploading comics to Bento Comics, and this week is a 2006 romance story I did for “Generation” anthology, only 8 pages long. It’s been up on this LJ before, but here it is once again for those who missed it the first time around.

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: Romance in a tacky two-dollar store. Can it happen?

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.

 

The Two Dollar Deal

Click here to read on Bentocomics.com!

 

I wrote this story after discovering that a co-worker at a video-game company I worked at also worked part-time at a two-dollar store. It was quite surprising – she used to bring these tacky yellow rubber chickens to work as a gag, and I used to wonder where she got so many of them. But then I knew. Thinking of all that junk in a two-dollar store prompted me to write this story, which is still one of my favourites.

 

BentoComics.com – Portrait of a Sociopath

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Hello all. I’m still doing my weekly run of uploading comics to Bento Comics, and this week I’m pulling out something from my computer that’s been there for ages – a short 2-page story that somehow requires an entire essay to explain. It’s my first, and only, story that’s based on a real person and a recent real-life crime. See for yourself.

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: Everything that is said in this story is straight from the mouth of Steven Green. If you don’t remember him, he’s a US soldier who killed and raped a 14 year-old Iraqi girl and her entire family.

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.

 

Portrait of a Sociopath

Click here to read on Bentocomics.com!

 

The story of this is explained straight after the 2 pages of comics… it’s a rather long story, and in it I detail all the reasons I had for not releasing this story earlier. It’s partly because this story’s based on a real person and a real-life crime, and also because of the source – a newspaper article that later disappeared off the Internet. It brings to light the kind of issues we have surrounding Internet journalism… not so much with accuracy but with incorrect quoting.

BentoComics.com – Keeper of the Soul

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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.

 

Keeper of the Soul

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.