Paper Doll Veronika update

 

Paper Doll Veronika has updated; Chapter 13 of Part IV, "Iconopathy", is complete!

The update starts here.

The chapter begins here.

The part begins here.

The story begins here.

This is the heart of Book One. The background is watercolor by my grandmother.

It updates on Fridays/Saturdays on my site, Sundays on Arkhaven, Mondays on Substack, and Saturdays on Deviantart. (Substack and Deviantart are at much earlier points in the comic). I recommend using bookmarking or the "Save your place" gadget on my site, even once you catch up, because the site starts at the beginning and updates are several pages.

Veronika Bosch, who's never left her father's estate, has to go on a journey when envious animals kick her out. Half collage, half puppetry, a fairy tale adventure made with hand-drawn paper dolls.

Support the comic and get special bonuses here!

Get the book of Part I here!

Parnassus Entryway

 

The most complex background environment yet from Paper Doll Veronika, which has updated on Arktoons!

The latest episode is here.

The series is here.

The floor took the longest, it's made from film photographs I took of light coming through colored glass, pasted to graphing paper so that I could cut it into geometrically regular shapes and fit them together. The walls are a watercolor wash made by my grandmother, the columns are scrapbook paper, and the ceiling is The Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius by Andrea Pozzo and other public domain frescoes.

A Bear-Deer Collision

 

There's a new episode of Bovodar and the Bears up on Arktoons!:

The latest episode is here.

The series is here.

Paper Doll Veronika update - Not a feminist heroine

 

Paper Doll Veronika has updated; Chapter 13 of Part IV, "Iconopathy", has begun!

The chapter begins here.

The part begins here.

The story begins here.

This condition Veronika is in and the confrontation that led to it are what I was talking about at the end of this post. We finally reached the "part I was having difficulty with" that the Arkhaven article helped me "make... far more exciting." The Arkhaven blog I refer to has since been deleted, but upon my request, the writer reposted the article here!

Paper Doll Veronika updates on Fridays/Saturdays on my site, Sundays on Arkhaven, Mondays on Substack, and Saturdays on Deviantart. (Substack and Deviantart are at much earlier points in the comic). I recommend using bookmarking or the "Save your place" gadget on my site, even once you catch up, because the site starts at the beginning and updates are several pages.

Veronika Bosch, who's never left her father's estate, has to go on a journey when envious animals kick her out. Half collage, half puppetry, a fairy tale adventure made with hand-drawn paper dolls.

Support the comic and get special bonuses here!

Get the book of Part I here!

The Deer Queen made human

 

An ink-and-watercolor portrait of the Deer Queen from Bovodar and the Bears, but if she were human!

Author Jack Mikkelson embellishes the piece with fantastical speculation: what this shows us about her character, how this image could fit into the world. 

She looks almost wild, but she is not. She is controlled, polished, composed, jeweled—almost courtly. And yet, she is menacing as she looks at us—a menace comes from her refinement and power.  

Back-and-forth mutual inspiration, that’s what art and storytelling is all about!

My thoughts drawing her were: She has to have a certain striking beauty, but arrogant and asymmetrical, be wearing men’s clothes, and have a large nose like a deer’s snout. By the way, I based her face on young Barbra Streisand.

Arktoons is hoppin'!

 

 

Both Bovodar and the Bears and Paper Doll Veronika have updated on Arktoons!

The latest Bovodar and the Bears episode is here.

The series is here.

The latest Paper Doll Veronika episode is here.

The series is here.

With this resumption of updates, more Bovodar content will be forthcoming!

The Bears are Back!

 

After a long absence, Bovodar and the Bears returns to Arktoons!

The latest episode is here.

The series is here.

Arktoons is presently the only place where you can read this comic, written by Jack Mikkelson and drawn by me in ink and gouache! But we are working toward making a real book of it! That'll be really great especially since the page layouts are really dynamic, and they are are of necessity lost in the Arktoons format.

We waiting to hear back on one possible avenue of publication; if that doesn't work out, we'll try another, the main thing is that Volume 1 has been completed! Keep watching and reading!