The kinda rural origins that result in keeping a counter of how many names I know personally in a book about a search and rescue case and an unrelated doomsday cult.
It's further along than it might sound luckily! But definitely required a little more planning ahead for future issues than usual.
A comic joke I've manifested into an actual problem is that I've become a much slower writer than I have an artist.
Childhood drawing of Godzilla. Probably early 90s. Looks a lot like a Trendmasters Godzilla toy.
I can even tell you which Godzilla toy I was looking at to draw this.
Issue 3 is gunna be a doozy later this year as drama breaks out at a Bigfoot Expedition for PoβDunkβs Pink Eye. Jump in on that ground floor with almost 100 pages of comics filled with haints and witches and maybe the devil himself for under ten bucks!
Much love to you too.
Iβm not good at talking about the grimness in this world. I wish I was as itβs never been more necessary. Hold yourβs closer and do the best to make those in your orbit better. I donβt know many other ways.
Preview image of the Backwood Folk comic series. Residents of Po'Dunk stand within the Lost Comfort General store as the roof is peeled away by giant hands revealing a night sky. Inside the store are many locals, but also a headless chicken, an ancient goat, and a bigfoot like creature simply shopping.
Backwood Folk is a comic series following the lives and afterlives of the residents of a small ghost town in the Arkansas Ozarks! Check out backwoodfolk.com to find the first two issues and stick around and stay awhile for the free webcomics and town history.
Had an illustration I was fond of that vanished after an art show in 2017. Stolen? Maybe. Lost in pick up? Probably. Anyways just got contacted by someone who purchased it at a thrift store and wanted the story on it. Love when a piece has its own little journey. Love to get an update once a decade.
Cover of HOME volume one, a young man daydreams holding a golf ball; a robot on horseback approaches from behind
Cover of HOME volume 2, a magpie flies in front of a decrepit tower with someone calling for help
Cover of HOME volume 3, someone floats upside down in space, in front of a yellow and pink graffiti.
Cover of HOME 4, a composite image of characters and scenes from the book.
I write and draw a slice of life, weirdo, low-stakes, scifi series with my brother called HΞ©ME.
Nice and cool people have said cool and nice things about them!
Serialized comics for discerning readers!
4 books available now!
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You can now get the digital editions of Backwood Folk on itchio! For a grand total of $7 you can get the first two issues filled with ghostly booger dogs, lights in the sky, and small town gossip in the Arkansas Ozarks. backwoodfolk.itch.io
Eve of the Ozarks Four panel comic strip. By Gustav Carlson Panel one- Eve and Hieronymus the goat come across a closed stop watch, Eve: Look! It's Paw's Ol' Doohickey! A watch, I think? Eve picks up the watch. Eve: Wonder what it does?! Eve opens the watch. She now appears as an old woman. Hieronymus behind her is a skeleton. The leaves are following. Eve clicks the watch closed. Young again. Hieronymus looks confused. Eve: I see why he tossed it.
Eve of the Ozarks. Stop Watch. from Backwood Folk #2.
Eve of the Ozarks Four panel comic strip. By Gustav Carlson Panel one- Eve and Hieronymus the goat come across a closed stop watch, Eve: Look! It's Paw's Ol' Doohickey! A watch, I think? Eve picks up the watch. Eve: Wonder what it does?! Eve opens the watch. She now appears as an old woman. Hieronymus behind her is a skeleton. The leaves are following. Eve clicks the watch closed. Young again. Hieronymus looks confused. Eve: I see why he tossed it.
Eve of the Ozarks. Stop Watch. from Backwood Folk #2.
Been reading True Grit for the first time, perhaps surprisingly. Less surprising is how much hooting and hollering Iβm doing when the introduction of LaBoeuf brings in the Arkansas vs Texas trash talk.
If you want the doom without the scrolling, put on some headphones and take a little break
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Got some ghost story #webcomics! Three stories of becoming part of the scenery in the Arkansas Ozarks. And got some more in stories from our reliable narrator in the planning stages!
Three panels from The Phantomβs Fiddle. A story from Backwood Folk Issue One. A skeleton has his fiddle stolen from him by a young Toby Leeds.
Panel from Lester Horn and the Black Booger. A story in Backwood Folk Issue 2. A clawed hand erupts from a fireplace as a man in long underwear and facial scars watches in horror.
If you dig these you can find similar stories in each issue of Backwood Folk. Each issue has a similar ghost story or original folk tale at its center. Both issues available for download at backwoodfolk.itch.io
Got some ghost story #webcomics! Three stories of becoming part of the scenery in the Arkansas Ozarks. And got some more in stories from our reliable narrator in the planning stages!
Secret History especially is really cool. Fun way to expand on the world without ever feeling like strictly for continuity. Sometimes fun little purposeful errors even.
Iβve listened to the audiobooks and loved em, but yeah having the books all beautifully design work is truly the ticket.
Hardcovers of The Secret History of Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: The Final Dosser both by Mark Frost.
The noise I made finally finding these at a non insane price at the local used book store.
Itβs keeps proving really revealing for me! Whatβs a constant fixation over the last fifteen years and what were flavors and trends of the era I wore for a bit. Itβs neat, and a good way to bury the concept of wasted time in an art career.
My mom recently dropped off a box of a lot of my childhood stuff. Included a lot of drawings. And wow, I definitely earned the nickname Alien Boy in 1997.
Everything on the internet says faster and sloppier and I will start speaking in slow motion. Pushed further Iβll pantomime moving in rewind for a week.
One thing Iβll give AI art, itβs completely removed most false senses of urgency I had in making and releasing my work. That content churn model prized by social media is easier to let go of when you see it backed up by unloved junk released with the passion of spam email.
Thereβs a few tv shows that people keep recommending me and they are probably mostly right to, but Iβve been really running into a wall of how many sci-fi shows for grown-ups are some kind of office intrigue.
"the reliable narrator has a story to tell you" Four panels approaching a man by a fire. As you get closer you see the man's face is an open skull. Even closer and you see his very alive eyes sitting in his sockets. "Take a seat by the fire, and I'll tell you a story. If you listen close, you might see it."
Up now at the Backwood Folk website! THESE GHOST TOWNS ARE FULL! Three webcomic tales of the haunted Ozarks! Read them now for free and in full at www.backwoodfolk.com/ghosttowns/
Crucially, this movie might also hold the most cinematic appearances of the best logo of the Arkansas Razorbacks. The Sweater Hog.
How many times will I log Boggy Creek 2 on Letterboxd this year? An enduring mystery.
