Comic Info - Seekers

Seekers is a fantasy love story with healthy doses of humour, action and horror.
It's the story of Giselda, a young and naive wingling that comes to a big city and has to grow up.
My forums are the best place to comment or discuss the comic, and it's also where I post special news. The forum also provides artwork galleries and other Seekers related goodies like making-ofs, wallpapers, Sims1 downloads and others. For a quick overview take a peek at the Goodies list.
Parental Guidance: Contains nudity, sexual themes, violence and occasional swearing. Suitable for ages 15+, I'd say.

Comic Info - SD Comics

Wacky Winglings - That comic is all about SD strips.

SD means "super-deformed" and refers to the Japanese style of drawing characters in "kids-form" with oversized heads and chubby bodies. Just because Non-Japanese call it "kids-form" that doesn't mean the characters *are* kids. They are not. It is just a funny-looking style of drawing sketches, and if you don't know it yet you will get used to it pretty soon.

Originally, the sketches were destined to decorate the last page of every issue, but several readers asked me to post them independantly. I gladly obey. ^-^ The Wacky Winglings are just funnies for your enjoyment, published irregularly. Some of them parody scenes from the comic, others are about regular problems sd characters encounter or they are *just funny*. Often you will meet Seekers characters at the place of a lazy comic artist called eph, where they wreak havoc of all kind.

Some sketches may contain spoilers.

Comic Info - Photo Comics

On a related note there are also photo comics available at the forums that feature some Seekers. (They are linked in the goodies list in case you can't find them.)
They star customized Pullip dolls, wool Akshi and needlefelted goodness in silly situations. These comics are only loosely connected to Seekers but you might be able to spot some secret projects from time to time. It is planned to make a serious doll webcomic in a few years, after we settled down in a place of our own and I have the space to build a decent dollhouse.
Overall these photo stories were made in the hopes to entertain you on rainy days since my health is often bad lately and the drawn comics suffer from it.

Copyrights and Legal Stuff

All comics are exclusively available at www.ephralon.de
No use or reuse of my artwork is allowed unless you get my explicit written permission. Alterations are allowed if done as fanart for me (e.g. the lovely window colours that Ramandu made for me). Artwork, storyline and all designs for characters and places are copyrighted by me and you are not allowed to use my work in whole or any parts of it for your projects. You may not offer it on your website, on cd or any other medium, neither single pages nor the pdf files. Reviewers may use a size-reduced cover or page shot for their articles though. Also, fanart is encouraged. If you post it somewhere else (on your DeviantArt account, for example) a note and backlink would be nice. :)

Story, Design & Artwork

Kerstin Veith-Szuplinski aka eph

Special thanks

Sheora, Darkest_Secret, Esther Lewit (Timberwere) and rubymoon

For invaluable help with the English adaption. Thanks for all the spell- and syntax checks!

Darkest_Secret

For help with story issues and being spoiler-resistant! Seekers is just half the fun without the inspiration I gain from talking with you about the things to come!

Nico Schunter

For the name and profession of the lively wingling magistrate.

Thanks to those who kicked me into working faster...

KAnne, Ramandu, Joy, Lee, Alustriell, kikachan, Nele, Lexx, Febre, Sharm, Shanniebaby, SailorCelestial, Batchix , Piwinator, Alex and all those I forgot...

Also a big thanks to all who sent me such lovely fanart, who donated to keep the server alive or who encouraged me with guestbook entries or forum posts!

FAQ

What kind of comic is this?

It's supposed to be a manga. I used Japanese guidelines for drawing comics to the best of my abilites, including the use of speed lines and using shades of gray instead of drawing full colour.

I started out with quills, then switched to a Rotring Rapidoliner and finally ended up with artist ink pens when Rapidoliners went out of production. All postwork, lettering and shading is done on the computer. I hope you like the results.

Each series is divided into individual issues (or chapters), and each issue has 20 - 40 pages, including full colour front and back covers.
Since I'm not from Japan, the comics are meant to be read from left to right!

Can't you update faster?

Updates depend on 3 things: my health, progress of to-do list of other things and motivation.
The first two points clash with each other but eventually will get better. Which leaves motivation. It's very saddening to only recieve "get well soon" messages when I'm ill but next to no comments when I actually update, even during those peeks where I updated 3 times a week.
If you think I should update more often please ponder about the date of your last comment for a second. ;)

I've got a great idea for a comic, will you draw it for me?

Only if you pay me well, and I mean fix pay per page and not a vague promise of sales shares.

Where do you get the screentones?

They are digital, I add them on the computer with the filltool in Paint Shop Pro.
A few are selfmade, but recently I bought some books from the "How to Draw Manga - Computones" series. Each comes with 100 high-resolution screentones on cd, ready for use in Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop. 95% of patterns come from those books now.

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