Last updated: 22.February.2002

Subsections:
.Idea
.Setting
.Cast
.Assorted Graphics
.Motives
.Comic Added Feb 2002
.Promo

.IDEA

I had this crazy idea about a year ago for a comic.Take the people around me, put my life onto paper. After all, there just don't seem to be many little 'real life' comics out there. Damn, I then thought, it's too dangerous, and I'd have to spill out there little secrets for anything to make sense. Not a good idea if I wanted to see my next birthday.

Okay, so what if I took just everyone's personalities, morphed them into echidna type creatures, and made up a completely different world. Like an alternative universe. So far the responses from the people involved have been positive. It's a cross between serious bits and funny bits. My odd sense of being.

I'm unsure as to how all this will end up. I want to get about 3 issues of 20 pages done and hand it around to a few publishers, see what they think and if they'll sell it. If not, it may eventually turn up here. But until then...

.SETTING

It's the year 2000 and Jay is in his final year of high school. We follow the adventures of him and his classmates as they go through life. The comic starts at the end of the third term, when final projects are due and tension is high... oooooh.

.CAST

.Click the thumbnails to see the full sketch. I'll have more finished designs up soon.

.ASSORTED GRAPHICS

This is where I'll post stuff like covers, bios, full blown illustrations and such that aren't the comic itself. Bleh.

Issue 1: Cover: The first version of it, at least. Not much but gives across some soppy romantic ideology. Ech. Hey, it's your choice if you look at it.

.MOTIVES

In the end I just got so sick of the ammount of superhero children's comics around. There are comics around that deal with persoanl issues, but they're far and few between, and you really do have to look for them (I'd get them if I had the money). Some mangas achieve a well balanced cross between big tankin' robot action and character development (Neon Genesis Evangelion) and some movies achieve exactly the sort of interesting result I'm looking for (Kevin Smith's 'Mall Rats'). But in the comics industry, everyone thinks it's just kids who read it (and I know that's not true).

I'm 18 years old and I can speak, that's what it comes down to. At my age, some teenagers send off poetry to magazines, some paint pictures in their art classes and others take up something like acting or dancing. This is how I'm going to say what I want to say...

.COMIC

Finally, the actual comic, currently a year old, is out for viewing. I don't think I'll be able to finish it, so I'm not to afraid of losing the idea. Maybe I'll modify it later, make a new story for these lovable echidnas. Time will tell...

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.PROMO

Mortigi Tempo: Jay and Sprin: The Bus
The test I did to see if I had the patience. Jay and Sprin challenge the rigidness of society with plastic. It's sortof hard to tell them apart at this stage... Woops.

E-Mail: masked_ferret@hotmail.com for any comments, queries or criticism (CONSTRUCTIVE criticism... Flames will be dealt with...) (Creatively...). And any job offers, etc. They'd always be of help.

Useless Information:
The title 'Mortigi tempo' is esperanto for 'Killing Time', a perfect description of the life outside and inside the comic. It's also an alternate title for one of my favourite Radiohead songs, 'True Love Waits', which has the line 'I'm not living / I'm just killing time', a very powerful lyric...