In an alternate post-apocalyptic 2003, two foxy friends, Cat and Dog, are on the run from a mysterious but extremely troubling and destructive presence known as the Monarch Swarm, with beings and organisms of all varieties being erased in its wake. It is then that on one fateful day, when seemingly all hope of survival has been extinguished for Cat and Dog, the duo encounter a peculiar but otherwise very friendly deity-like being in the crumbling remains of an old human dwelling...Rebirth Horse. Can Cat, Dog and their newfound kind but mysterious companion survive against all odds, as the Swarm devours what remains of a dying world?
God Animal is a very personal labour-of-love project of mine, drawing heavily from my love for natural history, xenofiction, pet-monster media and vintage horror manga from the 1960s-1970s. It is also an expression of my own experiences and reflections on being a traumatised queer autistic critter who is in a very frequent state of wanting little more than to sit quietly by a distant mountain stream and think about bugs, foxes and little else.
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God Animal is written and drawn by me, a buggy-foxy critter who goes by the pen name SupermarketCordyceps, sometimes abbreviated simply as SC or Super. I have an about page on the main section of FoxBugForest, read that if you would like to!
I use India ink (Winsor & Newton brand black India ink is my go-to) with dip pens and brushes. In terms of specific dip pen nibs, I often use Zebra and Gillott brand nibs, namely G and Maru/mapping nibs for the former and 303 nibs for the latter. As for brushes, I use very fine-tipped brushes, often sized 00-0000. The comic pages themselves are drawn on heavy cartridge paper (to be more precise, I use cartridge paper with a minimum weight of 180-200 g/m2), with either two A4-sized pages drawn on one side of an A3 leaf or on individual A4 sheets.
Update as of September 2024: I have been working on Episode 2 where possible of late and have been contemplating the possibility of uploading pages in batches, closer to the point of the entire episode being completed. I will update this section accordingly if this is something I decide to pursue.
Otherwise, no. For the time being, episodes of the comic will be uploaded in their entirety when they are completed. I'd much rather post new episodes in one batch rather than page by page. Due to life, work and health commitments on my end, I cannot usually give a very specific ETA of episodes being produced and uploaded. As said before, this is very much a labour of love project of mine and it will take as long as it does. When it is time to do so, I am intending to post announcements of imminently upcoming updates on the main homepage of FoxBugForest!
Yes, of course! I'm always happy when people draw my critters. I only ask that you do not draw anything NSFW or suggestive with any of my characters, which I really feel should go without saying, but just to avoid any chance of ambiguity: please do not do that, being completely serious about this. I also likewise request that you do not draw any of my characters in humanised or gijinka forms; anthro-furry versions of the characters on the other hand are fine though! If you do draw any art of the cast, do feel free to let me know through my Tumblr or my SheezyArt page, I'd love to see it!
No. For the time being I would much rather all of God Animal is all my own work, given how personal of a project it is for me.