Here’s the most recent page of Anubis: Dog of Death 🙂
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Anubis: Dog of Death – Part One – Page 5
Here’s the most recent page of Anubis: Dog of Death.
Check us out on Patreon and Line Webtoon.
Follow SindrElf and jbballaran on Twitter to keep up with what we are making.
Anubis Looks Down on His Fellow Dogs
Anubis used to be a god, so he feels far superior to the other dogs in his neighborhood.
Check out Anubis: Dog of Death for more 🙂
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Here’s the most recent page of Anubis: Dog of Death.
We are going to get back to a more regular posting schedule going forward.
Making Vertical Comics
I recently started sharing Anubis: Dog of Death on Line Webtoon, an internet comic portal.
We got a lot of praise, but there was one thing they wanted us to change about the comic.
SantAnubis
Anubis has dressed up as Santa Claus, and is ready to deliver Christmas cheer to all the good little boys and girls out there.
Growing Up With Spider-Man
During the late 90s, when I was between six and nine years old, I was a giant Spider-Man fan!
I never read any of the comics, I was more into Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck comics when I was little.
Ninja Anubis
To celebrate December 5th, International Ninja Day, the main character of my comic Anubis: Dog of Death dressed up as Ninja Brian from Ninja Sex Party, one of my favorite comedy bands.
He already had the right eyebrows, so the costume didn’t need much more.
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Anubis Concept Art
These are some early pieces of concept art for the main character of Anubis: Dog of Death.
In Ancient Egypt, people often associated Anubis with jackals, due to their penchant for scavenging the meat of corpses in the graveyards, so John made our Anubis look much more like a jackal than most representations of the god, with much more fur than the smooth obsidian look he is often portrayed with.
I’m a bit of a Corgi fan and noticed that they kind of look like shorter, cuter Jackals. It’s a nice contrast from his god form being much bigger than a normal human to him having short, stubby legs in dog form.
– John Barry Ballaran
We did not have to change much from the very first pieces of concept art for Anubis.
The most important change was the addition of great big bushy eyebrows!
Eyebrows on a dog may be unrealistic, but we decided to value expression over realism.
The Doctor VS Anubis
This is the story about how the main character in Anubis: Dog of Death started out as a minor villain in my unmade ‘Doctor Who’ comic books.
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In the summer of 2016, I contacted the artist John Barry Ballaran, to order a painting for my girlfriend for Christmas.
It would portray David Bowie and Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor from ‘Doctor Who’, battling an army of cybernetic creatures by shocking them with their electric guitar riffs.
The finished work would have a very realistic style, but long before the painting was done, John sent me a sketch of how the layout of the painting would look.
To me, this looked like something straight out of a comic book!
At this point, I had wanted to make several ‘Doctor Who’ comics for a long time.
Ever since I discovered ‘Doctor Who’ at 15 years old in 2005, I have always had countless ideas for stories set in that universe.
When I was younger I used to dream about the possibility of running that show, and even after admitting to myself just how unlikely that is, I still had a need to get all those ideas out somehow.
And while I could simply write a fanfic, I had imagined these ideas as television episodes, so I felt many of them needed to be visual to truly express what I wanted those ideas to become.
So I asked John if he would be interested in attempting to make a ‘Doctor Who’ comic with me after the painting was done, and he said yes!
I ended up writing a script for a one-part story, and asked John to draw a test-page.
Anubis the Mummy
This is the first of many bonus images we have planned of Anubis dressed up for a holiday.
We already have some plans for Christmas 😉
In this first one, Anubis’ new owner has dressed him up for Halloween!