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"Chernobýl" 30-31

It's kinda weird how we don't actually see The Meed in this part of the action, although he is very active in it. He's not "properly" present even in the next strip, and intentionally so... But what do you think, guys?

Anyway - I thin...

I'm a mangaka now, mom!

Just kidding!

But seriously, I kinda like the look of it, for a smaller singular drawing. (Also, remember this one?)

Maybe one day this cheap trick could work in an actual comic? I do go to forests often, you know, and my phone ...

"Chernobýl" 27-28-29

Aaaaand we're back! 

So yeah, some re-figuring happened in the past couple of weeks,  and strip 27 is now moved from the end of page 10 to opening of this page (11). I won't show you the additional panels now - they are not critical for storytelling, just lil' bits that bothered me for the whole month of May, so let'...

Unannounced book remains unannounced

Huh? What's that? Well, my friends, these are just little design elements we'll probably put on my Western comic's single issues back covers! All 6 of the issues!

...Huh? They say the announcement will probably move from Summer to Aut...

What is your main pleasure here?

(Poll time! Please, select your MAIN priority for supporting this Patreon below!)

A bit of sad news for my $3+ patrons -  no CHERNOBYL strips this week, sorry :( Really, really need to take a break to fix a couple of things before pushing book forward.

Not so sad news: we're closer and closer to this book's announce...

Dmitry's Nihilism

Phew! 

So, I'm back from vacation (and what a blast it was!), and I couldn't get a better return gift than a caravan of freshly scanned pages by Dmitry Nesterak from his mysterious Slavic Nihilism #2 story! He only has 3 pages left to do, and I think I am also another three or four pages short for the fir...

"Chernobýl" 26-27

*opening a bottle of champagne*

Whooooo! The 9-grid is officially broken, ahaha! Cheers!

Next week we'll be back in Saint Petersburg - and, hopefully, my moleskin is already filled with new panels to scan and compose to...

"Chernobýl" 24-25

Aaaaand there's Indrik!

In the cast of just 3 main (and male) characters and with more "cartoony" style to explore, our third guy - mischievous Indrik - was the hardest one to tackle. And after few shitty attempts t...

"Black Water" (written by Chris Irvin, unpublished to this day.... I think?..)

Found this little weirdo in my comics fol...

"Chernobýl" 22-23

I don't know how about you, but I'm loving everything about first strip here: this is the moment I was teasing in my twitter so many times as "some kinky furry shit" and chuckled to myself every time I remembered about it. And it is exactly...

Second batch of Patreon commissions + scans

Aaaaaand we're done with the second batch of commissions! Now everything from February/March is done, I'm leaving on a long vacation in a couple of days, and the next wave of commissions will be done sometime in June.

Thank you all for your support, and I hope these will be a nice reward to you ;) Invite your friend while I st...

Another 2018 book (hopefully!)

Getting back to a very beloved book, one part of which was drawn 3+ years ago, and another part  - sometime in 2016. What is weird about it is that I want to redraw more parts of my 2016 stuff while older pages look more solid.  2018-05-03 13:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post

"Chernobýl" 20-21-wait-whuuuh?..

(Sticking to the dying old-timey tradition  - here's the longer version of the video for you exquisite folks!)

And yep - this week I give you... The full 9-grid...

Golden Kamuy is great, you guys!

Here you go - I hope this video isn't too long for your liking! (Lemme know if you think 10 mins is the max these videos should last).

If you follow me on other social media you probably saw the print version of this drawing:

2018-05-01 09:04:26 +0000 UTC View Post

First batch of Patreon commissions

I'm sorry if you're a first wave $20 patron and yet you can't find your commission in this video - I should finish the rest of them once I get back from a convention! Drawing those commissions out of order and obligatory shooting them on video was kinda a poor idea, but I hope some of you at least still find these videos ...

"Chernobýl" 18-19

Heyooo, my friends! 

Some scheduling updates for your boi Artyom: this Friday I'm flying to Krasnoyarsk to visit Siberian Comic Con and do my old washed up stage routine "Making it into American comics industry... Kinda" (which, ...

"Chernobýl" 17

This strip cost me a lot of struggle - our story becomes more and more wordy (for a little while) and with that my lack of proper planning is more and more distressing. 

2018-04-20 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

"Chernobýl" 16

(Yep! This is how we do it. Longer version for this video is here)

This strip introduces a very flamboyant character... sorta!

MAN THAT YURI GUY KNOWS HOW TO T...

Let's char some Kraken!

Hey guys!

This is both a post about my work process and mild reminder/recommendation regarding our $5 pledge, which gives you access to Slavic Nihilism #1, Son, 20 pages w...

CHARRED KRAKEN one-shot

And for this month's Sequentialist subscription we have my old one-shot called CHARRED KRAKEN back from 2013/2014. Written by Chris Irvin (who put out some nice novels since then!), drawn by me (and it's one of my last prevalently digital work),  colored by Kelly Fitzpatrick and le...

"Chernobýl" 15

I don't know why, but I just love the first panel so much!

Here, check this out:

This tiny sketch in my moleskine felt so spot on to me that I ended up using my phone with this picture on the screen as lightbox.

Ah, and sp...

"Chernobýl" 14 and our three-panel-structure

Aw hell, guys, I really don't know: of course I'd love to keep that "ninegrid" thing going on for some time, but in no way it should be an end in itself.

So maybe we can break the game a little in this strip? Whadda you guys think? Pl...