Thursday, January 2, 2014

A Sketchy Comic: Dawn, Shadow, & Service



Here's a little homemade comic that requires a bit of context. It ties in with a game we've run at home with a couple of friends: Vampire: the Masquerade, specifically the Chicago Chronicles set in the early '90s. We just wrapped up the story and in commemoration of over a year spent playing it, I'm making a book I can print and bind by hand to give to all the players. Part of that book is an appendix where I reveal the identity of one the most mysterious (and short-lived) characters the players encountered. That appendix, is this comic:


A little bit more about the protagonist: He introduced himself to the players in 1991 as Verus. Slowly, though, it became apparent that everything this vampire said was a lie. In truth, he is a member of a dying breed, one the world would not miss if it went extinct.

Vampire: the Masquerade is a tabletop role-playing game developed by White Wolf Publishing. In case it needs to be said, they own all the rights. They created all the cool stuff. I just made a comic about it for our chronicle.