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This page is the portal to the fiction, comic strips and sequential art on the Spiralcat entertainment website.

 

Sequential art covers a great deal of teritory from the funny comic strips of the daily papers like Dilbert to the super serious graphic novels of modern publishing like Maus.

 

Manga is of course one of the most fertile sources of sequential fiction and comic books. We love Manga and we will be reviewing lots of it but also the interesting fan communities that have sprung up round the genre like the colourful Manga Fox site.

 

I think comic books and comic strips are one of the highest forms of fiction for a creator with illustration and writing skills to be producing. The combination of text and images in the sequential art gives a unique insight into the creative intention of the artist and the worlds they want to create. When you compare the art of a perfectionist like Brian Boland with that of a comic book artist who allows more freedom in his work like Mike Mignola, you'll see what I mean. 

 

 

 

 

The Tarazet Role Playing Game which is a Spiralcat production available for free download has a great deal of fiction and art associated with it. The fiction and art helps greatly in a role playing game to give an idea of what is intended by the sometimes dry rules and descriptions. When you think of a game like Rifts it is clear that it would never have gained the popularity it did if it were not for the art. The Tarazet fiction can be read here and the Tarazet art can be seen here.

 

There have been other priorities at Spiralcat and there isn't as much comic book, comic strips and sequential art as I would like but we do have a couple of things.

 

Spiralcat has it's own funny comic strip, the Moonbugs comic strip. More Moonbugs comics and another moonbugs comic

 

We are also building a less humour based comic book called Planet Skrimshaw. The blog where this story is being built is here at the planet skrimshaw comic book blog.