Please note, these are the only the terms known to date employed by the Chk’Rath, Truug, who features prominently in Crucible. It will, over time, expand. Bellingly: Ironically. With thundering yet much-avoided inevitability. Bathetically. Chk’Rath: Truug’s species (see Episode One) Frentling: Pantomiming… Read More ›
We know we’re only a couple of episodes in, but we hope you like Ardahl. He’s a bit of a man of mystery – his origins obscure, known, perhaps, only to Truug… and perhaps even his old friend doesn’t know… Read More ›
Taken from The Walking Guide to Shoorec by Ewek Venzlor For the last 50 years Pomorele has prided itself as ‘The Fishfree Sea’ and their Seacatchers pride themseelves on bringing back to the harbour a wide variety of ‘Hingies’, ‘Nippies’… Read More ›
So here’s another Work in Progress tease – Page 1 of CRUCIBLE Part 4. Just to show you how much thought Smuzz puts into his work, here are his Work in Progress notes… “Apologies for not making the MineMouth any… Read More ›
Here’s another of Smuzz’ Colour Guides for one of the main ‘Crucible’ characters. The amount of work he’s putting into these is, frankly, a bit gob-smacking – and his colouring notes for pages of the strip are often so thought-provoking… Read More ›
Here’s another of Smuzz’ wonderful colour guides we’ve bombarded poor Kris Carter with. This is the oddest member of the Expeditioners in our story…
I’m pleased to announce that ‘The Quest’ has a colourist – Kris Carter, whose work I saw on the new 10thology title, edited by Stuart Tipples, but who came recommended by my old friend Mike Collins. Based in South Wales,… Read More ›
Smuzz has just delivered some stunning colour guides for the main ‘Quest’ cast: I’ll post them here over the next few days or so. Here’s the first… © 2011 John Freeman and Smuzz
Smuzz has just delivered this terrific promotional image for The Quest, which will feature in STRIP Magazine later this year. There’s still a lot of work to be done – 12 pages are drawn so far, and I’m about… Read More ›
We’ve been quiet, haven’t we? That’s because we’ve been busy. Smuzz is busy on Page 7 (fight!) and I’ve now got to crack on and get him some more script pages, in between all the other things I have to… Read More ›