www.allancomic.com

With the “Simple Line”
our sixteen year old Allan
makes an adventure

reliving high school
the ups, the downs the homework
early nostalgia

Whenever I find a journal-style webcomic I always love to read them.  Peeking into someone’s life is one of the nice little pleasures the internet gets to provide.  That’s why I started this blog.  I wanted to combine my voyeur/exhibitionist nature with my love for sequential art.

There isn’t anything too special about allancomic.com but I’ve been very jealous of this comic.  I read through the entire archive, and I said, “Why didn’t I do that in high-school?” I drew pictures all the time in school, but I never thought to make a comic, and back then I never even thought of a journal comic, so I’m intrigued when I see how someone can transcribe his day in a few lines, with some great illustrations.  I’m getting to vicariously live my life through Allan’s comic and I think it’s wonderful.

The art is juvenile, obviously anime/manga influenced, and in some stages glorified stick figures, but there are a few artistic gems that shows while Allan is learning how to tell his story, he’s also learning how to improve his art as well.

I’m hoping once I get my journal-strip in a publishable format you’ll see that i’ll start taking cues from this kid.  He’s teaching this old bird some new tricks.

 

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