The Big Crossover

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Dec 072011
 

I mentioned earlier this week that I used to draw a comic called Fun ‘n’ Fantasy (FnF). It was about a roleplaying group and their wacky misadventures in the world of Rengag. I posted several issues of the comic online back in 1999 (on geocities or some other defunct free website so you can’t find them anymore). I had fun drawing it but once I started working full-time I found I didn’t have the drive to continue the time-consuming process. Of course that was when I’d have to draw the panels, then scan them, then edit them, colour them, and finally add the text. With my drawing pad the process is a lot easier.

Fab told me not too long ago that he’d have liked to see more FnF. Nowadays I’m pretty busy with Age of Animus so a full return of Fun ‘n’ Fantasy doesn’t seem likely. The compromise was a crossover between FnF and AoA, and so the idea has been percolating in my brain. I drew this picture as a teaser for it, even though the actual crossover won’t happen until mid-to-late 2012. I’d been hanging on to it, waiting for the ideal time to announce the crossover and well, that time is NOW! I may look into putting a comic book compilation of the crossover story for sale on in the Age of Animus Cafepress store when it’s done, but that won’t be for some time obviously.

Todrick

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Nov 302011
 

From the journal of  Ardebast Raconteur:

I met the fox, Todrick, on one of my trips through Verdant, the City in the Treetops. He’s an earnest young fur, and quite likeable.

Furs don’t often make their home in Verdant. That’s what makes Todrick so unusual. To add to his mystique, noone, not even Todrick himself, remembers how he came to live there. Todrick is an orphan with not even the slightest idea as to his origins, so in his case it’s forgiveable, and of course, the Avian are not known for their memories.

I can see it in Todrick’s eyes that he yearns for more. Someday I expect he will leave Verdant in search of…well, I don’t know what exactly. Adventure perhaps? I would suspect that finding out where he comes from might be a motivation as well.

Carja’s Notes:

Todrick first appears as a fur that Nektara encounters in the first of a series of three birthday stories I wrote for my friends, but I had the idea for him much earlier.

Foxes are my favorite animals, so it was a no-brainer that one of my characters would be a fox. His name is a nod to Todd from Disney’s The Fox and the Hound.

While there’s a little of me in all my characters, I’d say Todrick, as he appears in the Funnies, is the one that I’m most like: He’s somewhat of a spaz with a short attention span. I didn’t originally intend for him to turn out that way, but found him taking that role the more I wrote him.

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