{"id":2697,"date":"2024-10-10T22:28:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T02:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkiakas.com\/site\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2025-03-21T22:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T02:32:34","slug":"bad-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkiakas.com\/site\/bad-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"BAD MOUTH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You know what….. its time for ANOTHER post– this wasn’t originally a post I was planning on making any time soon, in fact I was half-tempted with posting something for Prism Knights since the Kickstarter was on for the last few weeks but I was GRIPPED with the sudden urge to talk about this comic since my partner got a funny little email the other day asking what comic these two characters were from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And colour me shocked?? I haven’t thought about these guys in quite a long time, even though pre-pandemic these two were the only thing I thought about for years as, some of you might be fascinated to know: I did have a webcomic… once<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its probably not THAT surprising, considering how many folks online had webcomics (and have webcomics even now) but I’m not even sure how common-knowledge this is for most who haven’t followed me for (what feels like) eons now…. the last time I even worked on BadMouth was back in 2019… almost… 6 years ago…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alas…. she’s unfinished<\/em> (picture me saying this derisively). I know more than anyone at this point that some stories just don’t quite make it to the finish line. I won’t say that I’ll never go back to this one… but it certainly will not be a webcomic…. hell it might not even be a comic at all by the time I crunch my hands into it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ANYWAY this isn’t about what-ifs. Its mostly about the fact that the website for BadMouth is in a bit of a disarray right now (my wordpress shenanigans aren’t updated<\/em> or whatever so I need to fix that). But I thought it wouldn’t hurt to honestly share the entire project here anyway. That’s right all 80-some-odd pages and everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUT FIRST lets go back to the beginning. In 2017 I started a webcomic called BadMouth because I wanted to be a Cool Kid and get into the Cool Crowd of folks making comics. I was glittery-eyed for a small group of artists making: THE SANITY CIRCUS<\/a>, BACKLASH<\/a>, PARADISE<\/a>, POSTCARDS IN BRAILLE<\/a>, APOPPYTHEOSIS<\/a>… and honestly a lot more I’m personally forgetting right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what can I say other than I started doodling these friggin bozos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Again with the lack of proper visual development on my end. There ARE more doodles of these guys, unscanned in sketchbooks somewhere, though, I know that for sure).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then with little to even less planning I just fuckin’ jumped right into it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the prologue or “Ouverture: What’s the Word, Bird?” at 68 pages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And a part of ACT I: The Ghost Walks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah this entire comic was drawn and inked traditionally, hand-lettered… also traditionally. The colours were done by my partner, Tas (absolute fuckin’ lifesaver not gonna lie. I think their colour work really made this comic better then it ever could have been….)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know SOMEWHERE… I have even older pages of a teaser I made up for the comic itself. Admittedly I don’t know where they’ve gone to. Probably lost on my old laptop. Which is (in part) why I felt compelled to make this post in the first place, cataloguing something before its completely lost. I wish I’d done a bit more of this personally in the past but we’re here now so we’ll start now, yeah?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If… i find the old pages I’ll post them here maybe… or just make a new post… probably make a new post… we’ll see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BadMouth is a bit of a funny little beast for me. I remember being exceedingly insecure about it and I think it shows in some of the pages here, more than the gumption I had with Little Mad Hattie which is a couple years older than this is. I think if I were to re-tackle it now it’d look and feel a lot different… but I also think it’d be…. a LOT shorter than the original plan. Or maybe it’d just be prose? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story was supposed to be a story told in a series of acts like it was going through a circus show… because it was about a circus, and gods, and death and rebirth and ghosts and– it sure was about a lot of things, but at its core it was about a funny little bird-guy named Pippin whose life was ripped apart by circumstance and things beyond her control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which was a pretty apt thematic tale for my life at the time, at least sometimes it sure felt like it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, document your shit if you can. Even if it feels silly at the time of you doing it. It’s worth it in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I haven’t really dabbled too much into these two in a while but both Pippin and Matty (the moth with the white hair) crop up every so often when I’m doing oc-tober hehe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not gonna lie… I’m vibing a lot with the evil-Pips look in the third image hehehe. She was gonna fuckin go Through It in the comic and have a whole villain Moment but y’know. Impatience and self-doubt and all that. I’m feeling a lot more confident in my self-publishing these days though… I’m half-tempted to revisit old ideas and give them a new life without going through the comics route… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mostly so I can get a few of these bouncing thoughts out of my brain!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway! Thanks for reading, toss me some questions about these guys if you’re reading this and have any LOL. I never know how to end posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toodles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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