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Inking practice

Some fan art of Motoko Kusanagi, wearing her white jeans outfit from Standalone Complex season 2.

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Summer break

The Automan’s Daughter is on summer (and fall) break! Perfect time to read the first nine chapters! In the meantime, feast your eyes on this incredible illustration of Aisha enjoying her summer break, drawn by the incomparable Kim Hu!

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⭐️WEBCOMICS!⭐️ A poster Collab I was happy to organise to celebrate WEBCOMICS! Check out which comics are what below!

Harpy Gee Hazy London In Blood We Rise Daughter of the Lillies Magical How?! Lunar Blight The Otherknown Tripping Over You Phantomarine Solstoria Wychwood Heroes of Thantopolis White Noise The Mash Ozzie The Vampire Ghost Junk Sickness Lies Within Vainglorious Fairmeadow The Witch Door Bicycle Boy The Automan's Daughter StarHammer

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Process diagram for #webcomicday!

The Automan’s Daughter is a mecha adventure comic set in a dieselpunk North Africa, inspired by European comics of the 1970s.

Updating biweekly, it's free to read at https://automansdaughter.com/

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Season finale!

More webcomic chapters should end with one of the characters telling you to go to hell, in my opinion.

Anyway, The Automan’s Daughter chapter 9 is complete! Perfect time to dive in, before we go on hiatus.

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I feel bad that crunch time at my day job has caused the comic’s update schedule to slow to a crawl. Apologies, everyone! On the plus side, I did manage to post this page, where for some reason everyone is heatedly gesticulating with one arm.

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Don’t leave me hanging, mecha-blimp!

Can you not see me making the “wrap it up” gesture

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Hello, may I know where I can see the short film of "The Ottoman" or is it still in production?

It’s currently in post-production. Music and sound design work is slated for next year, and we hope it’ll start appearing in film festivals and online after that.

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Hello, I'm making a magazine for a university project. I have a few questions:

What inspired you to make comics?

How were you inspired to make “The Automan’s Daughter”?

Apart from “The Automan’s Daughter”, do you plan to do more new stories?

Are you thinking about translating your comics into other languages to attract more audiences?

Have you participated in projects that are inside and/or outside of Hiveworks?

How do you feel that your comics are well received by the public?

Growing up in Montréal, Québec, I read a lot of Belgian and French comics, stuff like “The Adventures of Tintin” and “Heavy Metal.” As I got older, I developed an appreciation for Fantagraphics books like “Love & Rockets” and “Eightball.” Now that I’m making my own comics, I suppose I’m attempting to combine all the things I loved about the works I grew up on.

The Automan’s Daughter is a spin-off of an animated short I’ve been working on for almost a decade or so. The two works share the same alternate-historical world-building and a lot of the same characters.

I believe it’s important to always be chasing your next big project, so I do have other stories in the works. Some would be set in the same universe as The Automan’s Daughter, while others would be completely different in terms of genre and tone.

I’d love to see my stories translated, although first I’d probably need to know more about whether folks in different countries would be interested. Not all work appeals to all cultures. (I’d like to think people in France would appreciate the comic, at least…)

I haven’t done any comics outside of Hiveworks, although most of my other art projects, like the animated short, and my limited-run podcast, were done independently.

I can tell from the comments that the comic’s readers are enjoying what I’m putting out there. But I get the sense that my audience is quite small. That said, that’s not unusual, for webcomics.

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TIRED: Oceanic gladiatorial combat, with mecha WIRED: Shirtless contract disputes, with mecha

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Great question, glad you asked.

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First time posting my knitting to tumblr. Look at my Bug Son

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Aisha, vibin’

Witness this incredible Aisha illustration by kickingshoes!

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I'll level with you guys—warping and tracing that tattoo until it looked right took way longer than drawing the mecha-tank.

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Old, wet man

According to the comic’s visitor logs, the two things readers most want to see are “a tank, but with legs” and “old, wet man.” So, this one's for you, I guess! I should probably double-check those logs.

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