Orange Unicorn

Extra post today!

A week or two ago—it’s so hard to tell the passage of time during the summer—my friend Zach commissioned a caricature of himself. I forced him to give me artistic freedom with it, which made it even more fun! I felt very inspired to do it for some reason, and I ended up not even using a reference! Here’s the result.

We both really liked the result, and my addition of the words “Adventures of Zach and Jorito” gave us the idea of making Zach into a character. I mean, if you know him, you know how much of a character he can be.

Zach was a great pusher for the idea, and really wanted me to do it! Eventually I gave in. But I decided to make it Orange Unicorn.

While I considered taking on the challenge of giving life to Jorito as a comic character, I decided to go with an “easier” path – giving life to myself. It’ll help that we spent a lot of time together this summer. We’ve got lots of stories to tell! So be prepared. These short stories will be inspired on real-life events, but a lot of it will be fictional and adapted.

This will be a weekly webcomic going for about 12 weeks, maybe more, maybe less. Planned start of the posts is for the 7th of September. I’m expecting to be able to post a new upload every Thursday, instead of the What Made Me Cry This Week. But we’ll see how it goes!

One last thing. Zach and I disagree on which character design to go with for myself. I want to use my character Birdman. Zach thinks I should use my self-caricature. What do you think?

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