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Cornucopia Webcomic - Six Unreleased Pages
🕑 Added 2022-09-18 20:24:28 +0000 UTCFor those who don't know, a few years back I drew a webcomic called Cornucopia (or Nuco for short) about a ninja with paint powers who was bad at infiltration.
I finished the first chapter in 2018 and was taking a long break before the second so I could build up 12 pages of backlog before beginning Chapter 2's weekly updates... but that's when Epithet Erased got signed into contract and I had to devote 150% of my time to it.
I put Nuco on indefinite hiatus, the purgatory that all webcomics are doomed to find themselves in eventually. I figured I would return to it at some point once Season 1 was done, but the first season did lasting damage to my hands which I am still feeling even as I type this up, actually.
Nuco languished for a long time. I had five of the twelve buffer pages I intended to draw sitting around on a hard drive, waiting for the day I might hypothetically return to it, but frankly I'm several years out of drawing practice at this point. I think it's time to admit that I dont' think I'll ever revisit Nuco, at least not in its webcomic capacity. It's a shame, because these last few pages are some of the ones I'm proudest of. I think the colors and backgrounds are incredible and I'm even starting to figure out fun ways to illustrate panel layouts, something Chapter 1 really struggled with.
Nuco is my oldest original project that I still think about. I came up with it in high school and refined the hell out of it in college. Nuco is basically my ground zero for figuring out how to tell a story, and honestly even this iteration could probably use some work looking back on it, haha.
It's a shame to admit, but Epithet is my main job right now and it probably will be for the next few years. I'm much more interested in continuing the Epithet novels and working on a handful of YouTube videos and VA work as my side project. Having Nuco eat up 3 days of my week again just isn't an option anymore, so I think it's time to officially put the old girl out to pasture.
I am really glad I finally get to show off that big blue paint explosion on the last page though. REALLY proud of how that one came out. And the drawing of Hiccup hopping around on that final WIP page is one of the best-looking panels in the entire comic.
Comments
Markisgay
Nuco was a great comic and I do hope you get the chance to revisit it. It had an amazing magic system that I never have been able to get out of my head.
JelloApocalypse
That's very cool of you to say. Please take care of your health, though! Webcomics are a really tough medium. I hope you get to end up working on something a little less demanding like commission batches of comics as opposed to something endless and weekly.
Stephen von Schulmann
Nuco is possibly the most important comic in my life, I was reading it just after highschool, when I wasn't sure where to go next in my life. Between this comic and the Welcome to Webcomics video, I realized just how much I wanted to create in the medium myself. I entered a comic arts program in college, learned the fundamentals of drawing, writing, marketing, and self-publishing, all from a class I hadn't considered until your work inspired me. So from a massive fan for the past four years, thank you.
Ignis Astrorum
Loved Cornucopia, learning about the roll over text half way through and then going back to read all of that was a fun time, "also Jhin is super hot, that is all."
blackmagicfine
Oh man I'm total webcomic geek, and Cornucopia was one of my favorites back then. It's totally understandable that it got perma-sidelined (most webcomics do!). Do you think you'll ever do a video retrospective on it?
I remember listening to you talk about it and I can tell you have a lot of love for it. Hopefully it can one day be it’s own thing!
JelloApocalypse
Thanks! Nuco's been in my head for 10+ years now so I'm sure I'll find somewhere to put it before I die. It just... can't be a webcomic. That medium was literally killing me lol.
NUCO was my favorite webcomic for a long time and I always held out hope it would come back. I’ll miss this comic and what the story could’ve been but I love Epithet a lot and I’m excited to see how it continues! Good luck with everything you hope to accomplish
