Xoth is finished!
Facts first: I just finished a full color hardcover book with 80 pages of content, 66 of these pages are my comic and I have a foreword by comic journalist Noah Berlatsky. I worked about one year on the comic, with bigger and smaller breaks, between 6-10 hours/ page (depending on the complexity of it). Btw, im sorry, im not really good in layouting with wordpress…
Xoth has its first review on the net by the webpage “G wie Gorilla”. I am amazed how nice it came out. But well, read it for yourself.More news are, that Xoth has its own webpage, in German though. Check it out, www.xoth-comic.net
Xoth presentation party in Graz: will take place in the Rechbauerkino Graz at 05.12.2008, 8 pm within the official program “Kinogeschichten”. Official invitations will be send out, but keep the evening of this day free to enjoy an entertaining ebening full of monsters, nerds and nerdmonsters!
The story behind the comic
The story BEHIND the comic: In 2006 I found a book in a NYC comic book store called “The Art of HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos”. Being a fan of the American horror author Lovecraft, I was very interested in the possibilities of visualization of his horrific, unspeakable monsters, ancient cities and impossible artifacts etc. I decided to make a comic interpretation of Lovecraft, and, to make a perfect concept, I decided to write a diploma thesis on him. This thesis not only dealt with the theoretical background of Lovecraft’s life, his work and his impact on popular culture, but also included a practical part where I developed the alien city of XOTH and its inhabitants.
The Story
This is the world Jacop O’ Damsel ( at the beginning of the story an earth inhabitant who never even could dream about a city like Xoth) gets pulled into. A gigantic, glowing space monster takes him with it, and he wakes up surrounded by strangeness. There are the deep ones, strange fishy creatures, who worship humans in their “Ordus Humanus”, a counter religion to the religion of the “Great Old ones”, and they want Jacop! He escapes, being chased by horny fish, assassinators of Cthlhu and other life threatening thingies. He gets help from one of the daughters of Shub-Niggurath, the Dark Goat. Yen is her name, and she thinks Jacop is cute. Good thing, because that why he stays alive in the first place. And so the two of them try to find out why Jacop is here and who is behind the Ordus Humanus – the mysterious creature in the dark!
