We’re now three days into the Kickstarter for Issue #2 of Anubis: Dog of Death. And we’ve reached 25% of our funding goal!
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Issue #2 of an action comedy comic book series about the Egyptian god Anubis, doomed to live as a tiny purse dog in LA.
The comic is written by me, and drawn by John Barry Ballaran.
Anubis: Dog of Death – Part One – Page 15
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Anubis: Dog of Death – Part One – Page 14
Here’s the most recent page of Anubis: Dog of Death 😀
Check us out on Patreon and Line Webtoon.
Anubis The Direwolf
Here’s a drawing of Anubis The Dog spray-painted and dressed up to look like Ghost The Direwolf.
Game Of Thrones has been my absolute favorite show for the last few years.
So I and John Barry Ballaran, the makers of the Anubis: Dog of Death indie comic, wanted to mark the ending of this wonderful show.
Norwegian Anubis
Anubis is all dressed up for the 17th of May, which is the Norwegian Constitution Day.
Every year on this date we celebrate the national holiday of Norway. We dress up in our nation’s folk costumes, wave the Norwegian flag, sing our national anthem, and participate in parades.
Valentine’s Anubis
Anubis – Dog of Death wishes you a very happy Valentine’s Day <3
Happy New Year from Anubis
I and Anubis, the dog of death, would like to wish you all a happy new year!
We hope that 2019 will bring you nothing but joy and wonder!
Anubis The Red Nosed Reindeer
Anubis has dressed up as Rudolph (as he was otherwise engaged) and is getting ready to bring you all your presents this Christmas!
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!