New Comic Shippon Girls coming soon
From left to right. Ada, Milli, and Alex. 3 girls living in an apartment and going to college on a far off space colony (not as futuristic as it sounds as the space colony has pretty much no modern luxuries, including internet because they are way off in space).
It is going to be a bit more anime/manga inspired and in b/w for time. I am hoping that it could be a 3day a week comic so that there is a new comic page every weekday. Instead of a Friday Zoe this coming week I am going to post the first page of this to see what you guys think and hopefully get feedback while the thing is still malleable.
Got a chapter outlined and the first 2 pages done so far, there is 8pgs in my outline but might increase it to 10 to allow for more nudity. The story has grown a lot from when I started noodling it around in my head a week ago. Originally it was going to be about 3 cousins competing to get pregnant first because their rich dying grampa will only give them an inheritance if they continue on the family line. That is still going to be a big part of the story down the line but it isn’t as simple, instead being more like one of those animes about poor college kids just trying to find a meal, taking odd jobs (mostly posing for a nudie mag run out of their neighbors apartment).
I am trying to make something with a bit of a wider appeal than Zoe while still having my personal flavor. The 2 main things that turn people off of my comic are the big noses and the puns, looking to steer away from both with this comic and see if it can succeed. The art will be a little less refined than Zoe but want it to be a little looser and allow for more exaggeration (not full blown chibi deformed stuff like in anime, but think of that scene in FLCL where the dad has the snake tongue… stuff like that when appropriate might happen).
Been struggling with the name, the original placeholder was Inherit TENSE but never liked the name. After looking at a long list of weird words I settled on Shippon Girls, it sounds japanese but actually means a cattle shed in England, think it fits because they are in the bumfuck of nowhere outerspace in a place that feels oldfashioned with limited tv/internet because there is no instantaneous signals when your a million miles from Earth. Also went with it because when I put Shippon Webcomic in a google search I got back a message saying there weren’t any good matches. 😀
Let me know what you guys think of it, could really use feedback as I try to develop this so I can steer it in the best direction. Also, thanks to those of you voting on TWC. It was brought to my attention earlier today that my comic cracked the top 100, which is awesome 😀
This idea definitely has legs. I could see each of them having a different idea about comfortable levels of nudity with roommates, clashing and trying to get along.
well I am still in a very liquid state that could change in any number of ways, but currently my thinking is the crux of the story will be about them going into business with the 3 guys next door as nudie models, and a lot of the story will be all of them struggling to find their next meal as well as budding romances, I picture Milli sort of gaining feelings for one of the guys but the situation is they make out with all of them and eventually do more with them and she starts getting jealous of the other girls kissing him and sucking etc, but she is a bit insecure about voicing her feelings. seems like a standard hentai premise that could be loose enough to allow for a lot of slice of life stuff, where my original focus on them trying to get pregnant for the whole comic is a bit too rigid (will still play a role in the comic because I have a big thing for impregnation as everyone knows, but won’t be the focal point, instead the focal point is entrepreneurship of 3 virgins posing nude in a small town and eventually everyone there knowing every mole on their bodies )
I like your puns and lots of people have big noses. Stick to what you enjoy because if you sway from your path to align with every prejudice then it won’t be your vision.
I won’t be changing Zoe, she will stay her big nosed punny self, I just am trying to make something a bit more accessible with the new comic. I’m hoping those that discover and like it will be a little more accepting of Zoe and open the door.
I think the new comic will have that flavor people come to expect, just a bit more refined, and some of the improvements will find their way to my other work as well. Like currently I am trying out different techniques to light and shadow. Adding gradients to both which you can see in the cart drawing I made for the Kickstarter. It is a simple change but one I think greatly helps the look.