Hi!! thank you!! ghost dust is a story universe of mine that I have two comics planned for, the first of which I hope to start next year! 

“Strange Bedfellows” is the first, and is a sci-fi/romance story about a guy who one day gains the ability to materialise objects from his dreams/imagination; including a boy that’s the physical manifestation of his desire for intimacy and romance! It takes place around 300 years in the future on humanity’s final colony in a distant galaxy. It will run concurrent with my current comic, Witchy. 

The second comic, which is the main comic in the series and is just called “Ghost Dust”, takes place around 10 years after, and contains cast members from Bedfellows– although both comics work as standalone stories. Ghost Dust centres around a spaceship of reluctant government agents who discover a person who i’d describe as “magical girl nb naruto” on a routine mission, and everything that happens after that! It will not start until both Witchy and Bedfellows are finished, if I am still alive/able to make comics.

Thank you for your interest!

thank you… this is why i make art

hi, this will be explored more in the comic, especially when we learn more about how the witch guard is structured, but it’s not spoilery, so i can explain here too:

there are two streams of what is referred to as “martial magic” which is magic used in combat. these are “offensive magic” and “defensive magic” underneath these headings there are two more streams:

underneath “offensive magic” there is assault magic and hex magic. assault magic is kind of self explanatory - it’s magic used to injure opponents - pretty straightforward. hex magic is more like casting magic that causes status ailments, think poison or confusion in an rpg. 

underneath “defensive magic” falls protective magic and illusion magic. protective magic is basically creating magical shields that either absorbs or reflects assault magic.

illusion magic is in a grey area: it’s mostly used defensively (usually to mislead opponents in order to keep your allies safe. an in-comic example of this would be the camouflage glamours that nyneve also mentions in chapter 3.) but it’s occasionally used offensively. hex magic is similar in that it mostly falls into offensive magic, but can be used defensively as well.

in the witch guard, the majority of knights must specialise in one of these four streams. a complete unit is comprised of at least one knight in each of these streams. there are other streams of magic that don’t fall under martial magic, however. 

ghost dust is another comic i have planned for when i either finish witchy or have enough free time to do comics. it’s actually an idea that i’ve been building on from 2007, but i wanted to do another comic before i tackled something i’ve been rolling around in my head so long. 

ha ha i get a lot of questions about this and i guess i should be honest! there’s a lot of work that still needs to go into witchy to prepare it for print, and also, unfortunately, i am a full time student studying abroad and honestly im already struggling to find the time to fulfill patreon goals and general house-keeping stuff for witchy. 

I AM chipping away slowly at preparation stuff, but it’s really at the bottom of my to-do list, and the thought of running an entire kickstarter campaign on top of all the things i’m already doing is daunting. also, the cost and time that it would take for me to send out packages from denmark is prohibitive. (yes, i know there are kickstarter fulfillment companies but that’s a whole other thing)

for now it’s more important for me to focus on school work and to continue pumping out good quality pages for the comic, but a print edition of witchy is not off the table… it might just take me a year or two more. sorry to everyone looking forward to a print version, i know i promised it would come sooner but i just don’t have room in my life to make it a priority right now. 

hah, i wish it was! i wasn’t even aware that nineveh was a place before you sent this ask. It would be more fitting to name her after that tho, instead of her actual name.. the pronunciation is a bit different tho, nyneve is just nin-eve

ah ive answered this before but all bangs and extra hair additions in the comic are glamours; spells that extend or change the appearance of the hair. i imagine nyneve is pretty much 100% bald at this point and just left her bangs out of habit. 

facial hair does exist,  but only the hair on your head affects your magical ability. shaving anything else is pretty much accepted anywhere in hyalin. you might find a few fringe groups that consider body hair equally as important as head hair. 

mangastudio, literally just the default gpen with aliasing. the sketchy look is aaaall me

In hyalin there tends to be a direct correlation between hair length and social class, which effects marriage more than hair length itself. It’s sort of equivalent to real life, where ppl in lower socioeconomic groups do marry into higher ones, its just more probable that you marry ppl in the same class.

yeah, curly hair’s length is measured as if it were pulled taut (straight), which does add a bit of length. in the case of veda, she has fairly loose curls and i can’t imagine it would be more than a couple of inches longer. idra is a good example, because she has dreadlocks, so her hair would be a lot longer than it seems. 

hi! im not 100% sure but this problem’s likely due to too much traffic on the site at once. this is a hosting issue and i am currently looking around for a new place to host witchy. (if anyone has any recommendations, i would appreciate it!) the only advice i can give you right now is to read it on the tumblr mirror when it updates, or wait it out and read it once the initial update buzz is over. sorry!

for me nothing beats being sincere and honest… be true to the humanity in your characters. be true to yourself. don’t get caught up in pretension; there’s nothing wrong with wanting to do something fun and action based, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to write about romance, just be authentic when you do those things and you won’t fall into stereotypes and create a boring story. write what you want to read, i can guarantee there’ll be others that want to read it as well. My initial desire to create witchy came out of writing a shonen story with better female representation. 

i mean, my goal is to finish witchy with like, a modicum of the depth a world like hyalin is owed. i want to be able to grapple with its complex power dynamics and spiritual aspects and class issues while still maintaining a strong narrative and strong characters (and fun action) until the end.

sometimes I get tired… some weeks i wish i could just relax and not do a page, and sleep for eternity, but i keep going because i love the story and i want to see it finished eventually!! if it werent for witchy i would not have improved so much, and i wouldnt have made so many wonderful fans and friends.

well generally it’s like melting-pot asia so you will probably see little bits of influence from all over asia, but specifically it leans more towards the islamic, south, and south east parts of asian design. I feel like most asian influenced media leans towards east asian stuff, and being south east asian myself I wanted to show asia as more than just china and japan.