DO NOT DEVIATE! -- Fairy Quest #1

[sandfire]

Paul Jenkins and Humberto Ramos are self-publishing an independent comic series called Fairy Quest using fan-funding methods. Fairy Quest #1 was sold on a limited, convention-only basis a year ago, and the two creators want to reprint it so they can bring it to a wider audience and continue the series.





DO NOT DEVIATE!

Why did they even cover that..?


I wonder if these are from Pern. Fablewood includes a "Sci-Fi Land" after all.


I'm betting Grandma sold them out for bingo chips.

Paul Jenkins calls this the series Humberto Ramos was born to draw, and I agree. Beneath the cut you'll find their officially released six-page preview (I also got permission from Paul just in case), and here you'll find links to their Kickstarter (fan-funding project page) and FQ homepage if you want to help!

Comments

[twomasks]

Nothing but red X's as far as the eyes can see...

[sandfire]

I'm trying to fix it super quick :(

[sandfire]

Fixed... That was harrowing.

[razsolo]

I kind of love it! :D

And that statue is super cool...I won't have money to chuck towards it for the next month or so, but I am gonna pledge something towards it once I can afford it! :)

[sandfire]

Ah! I'm glad! This is really one of those hidden gems, I think, so sharing it with others is just as important to me as helping Paul and Humberto out.

And! The nice thing about Kickstarter is that you can throw money at it and it won't charge you until the end of the project and only if the project is successful, so if there's anything limited you want to get that you know you can afford later, you can! :D

I like the idea of kickstarter

[jazzypom]

I'm always looking for something to kick my money towards. yay, thanks for this.

[sandfire]

Cheers! I've seen some remarkable projects on Kickstarter, a couple of which have even changed lives. What's better is, if towards the end of the project you don't feel confident, you can lower your pledge before it's closing time.

[filthysize]

That is the best Ramos art I have ever seen.

[lascoden]

Makes sense, he has a very stylized and cartoonish art, which fits a fantasy story a bit more then a superhero comic.

[sandfire]

Also with the colouring like that from Leonardo Olea, Ramos is invincible.

Reminds me of a couple of OG Readmore specials...

[silverzeo]

What counts as "deviation" in this world? Can it be something minor, like if the Wolf imply puts Grandma in a closest, like they do in some of the more "kid friendly" versions, as oppose to eating her before Red shows up?

Any story that has the Wolf as an anti-hero is okay by my standards, maybe a little more if he is the Looney/DIsney/Tex Avery style...

[sandfire]

That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I miss that old cartoon.

It's all thought crime in Grimm's Fablewood. From what I understand, deviation can even be something incredibly minor like expressing unhappiness or malaise despite a "Happily Ever After" at the end of your story. Or if Jack Sprat ate fat. That sort of thing, haha.

[silverzeo]

How can you miss them, they're on youtube by the dozens!

[sandfire]

Do excuse me as I disappear into Youtube for like... a day... :)

[icon_uk]

This is remarkable art from Ramos, unlike anything of his I've seen before, but is the market not already saturated with revisionist fairy tale series? This one even seems to have echoes of, of all things, Shrek!

[sandfire]

Haha, I thought about that too. We have Fables, Shrek, Grimm, Once Upon a Time, all sorts of things. Then I realised I didn't mind because, even with the same baseline, the story being told was different. (That and Ramos' art! You should see his sketches for this!)

[kraesil]

Woot.. I like the art! 8D

This has started out pretty good so far.

[md84]

Grandma is pretty indoctrinated if she's willing to call down the authorities on Red and the Wolf for deviating. Especially since Grandma's role in the story is to be eaten alive.

[kraesil]

She's older, so she's indoctrinated more..?

I'm half-hoping she gets eaten anyway. Is it wrong to think "serves her right" if that happens?