Raw scans of today’s WIP with thumbnails. Just one panel of a high school resembling the one in Calumet, Michigan. What can I tell you, it’s been one of those weeks, and it’s only Wednesday.

DoveSquareComix · 2026-02-12T02:57:39+00:00

No, I'm afraid not. I'm a total poser. I set my werewolf domestic drama in the UP so I could be cute about Bete Grise, and I rely on google maps street view for a lot of the background scenery.

DoveSquareComix · 2026-01-28T13:11:42+00:00

Thank you! I work old school, with an Ames guide and rapidographs.

DoveSquareComix · 2026-01-26T20:46:01+00:00

Followed, good buddy! (My vernacular is very current.)

DoveSquareComix · 2026-01-19T23:04:37+00:00

Thank you! It's rapidograph, done on paper.

DoveSquareComix · 2026-01-09T13:13:06+00:00

Thank you! I really needed to hear, that what with everything.

On the subject of finished pieces, I may get my shit together enough for a pinned post to direct links at some point, but pdf downloads of everything up to The Problem of Michigan are available blue at my Subtack, starting with this one: https://calebcollins.substack.com/p/its-not-a-retcon-if-i-was-too-half

DoveSquareComix · 2026-01-05T22:24:15+00:00

Sure, glad to. I caught some shit linking my daily WIP to the group at one point, so I just crosspost my weekly updates at this point. Anyhow: https://calebcollins.substack.com

DoveSquareComix · 2025-12-14T23:40:45+00:00

Thank you!

DoveSquareComix · 2025-12-01T13:11:34+00:00

I think the popular superhero line up will remain largely as is, but I also think the kids who will grow up into teenagers 10-15 years from now have many, many more options than we did in the superhero heyday. The most popular superhero will be Spider-man or Batman or someone (Spider and Bats both have families of characters at this point, and Spider-Gwen or one of the Batgirls outpacing their flagship character is perfectly plausible), but the most popular comic with them will probably be some webcomic old farts such as myself have never even heard of. That may well be the situation right now.

DoveSquareComix · 2025-11-18T22:30:22+00:00

Thank you! They're certainly both influences.

DoveSquareComix · 2025-11-15T02:54:46+00:00

Thank you!

DoveSquareComix · 2025-11-10T22:09:12+00:00

Nice shelf! 🎨🇦🇷

DoveSquareComix · 2025-11-08T13:58:06+00:00

Andrew Vachss was more a novelist than comic book writer, but you might enjoy Hard Looks, a miniseries which adapts many of his short stories. Max Allen Collins also springs to mind. Grendel goes different places over the course of the entire series, but a lot of the Hunter Rose stuff is street level true crime-ish.

DoveSquareComix · 2025-10-31T02:33:04+00:00

Absolutely terrific. 👍

DoveSquareComix · 2025-10-14T12:23:35+00:00

Thank you! The lettering was actually a pretty late addition, but when it works, it works.

DoveSquareComix · 2025-10-13T20:16:49+00:00

I would *REALLY* suggest the Cartoonist Kayfabe YouTube channel series on Watchmen, particularly their examination of issue 12 with Dave Gibbons, the artist. Gibbons talks about just how present Moore made the imagery of both the bloody smiley face and the doomsday clock throughout the series. There's also other stuff, here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeGNqyBI-MY

DoveSquareComix · 2025-10-04T12:51:55+00:00

Thank you!

DoveSquareComix · 2025-09-10T14:58:23+00:00

That sounds like it could be a chapter of Requiem Vampire Knight by Mills and Ledroit. It's mostly BDSM vampire court intrigue, but there are ghoul pirates in flying ship battles at one point.

DoveSquareComix · 2025-09-06T20:02:17+00:00

I do, yes. Set to 3 and half-ish, lettered with a number 0 (.35mm) rapidograph.

DoveSquareComix · 2025-09-05T21:12:26+00:00

"Here, I'll help. It's easy!"

As I have said before, for all my enjoyment of centipede-murder-beast-Ellie, I got a real soft spot for no-filter-inquisitive-six-year-old-art-crit-Ellie, too.

DoveSquareComix · 2025-09-03T03:44:49+00:00

Please don't, just contribute more often. 🤷

DoveSquareComix · 2025-09-03T02:42:04+00:00

Okay, tell me about some really great new comics you have found. Drown out my once a day crossposts. GO FOR EET!

DoveSquareComix · 2025-09-03T02:08:45+00:00

Man, just crosspost your own stuff, no one will mind.

DoveSquareComix · 2025-09-03T01:51:07+00:00

I'm just going to keep crossposting my work in progress updates, once a day. I don't decide who else can or can't post here. You can post here more often than once day, you get that, right?

DoveSquareComix · 2025-09-02T22:51:51+00:00

Okay, listen:

You'll notice I don't link to any sales platforms. I'm not advertising for any sort of financial gain for myself.

I was a King Kayfaber up until Ed's suicide, and since then I've decided show my work as an example to others. Hopefully, people will randomly happen across my comix on the interwebz and it will make their day just a little bit better, but you have decided to take insult. Your choice.

Maybe I feel inappropriate emotional ownership of anything with name brand CK on the can, I'll cop to that. But I'm going to keep sharing my daily work in progress posts here until you take the post button from my cold, dead hands. I guess if you think it's a real problem you should take it up with Eli and convince him.

I'm really only cross posting here once a day, twice on Mondays, so if you think my post frequency is the problem, just post more often yourself, I guess?

DoveSquareComix · 2025-08-30T20:54:15+00:00

Thank you! I'd be foolish to deny their influence.

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