Janis the Snowball Trader

She must be freezing, her lips are blue with the cold

Janis is one of a long line of snowball traders. It’s very difficult to make a living in the snowball trade these days; snowfalls are infrequent, and many people are too cheap to purchase a finely crafted snow projectile, preferring to make their own crude versions instead.

My new year’s resolution is to do one quick character a day and post them here. Practice makes perfect and all that.

Lonely

Emma is lonely, and why wouldn’t she be, out in the middle of nowhere like that

Page one finally goes up! Gah, why didn’t anyone warn me it would be so much effort to make a webcomic! Really, it’s been through three different style changes, and four website redesigns at this point. Maybe I should stop being so fussy about every little detail, and just try to actually produce something.

So, the story begins with a little girl called Emma sulking away and feeling lonely. She really should be careful what she wishes for though…

Cityscape

the citycape is a pale grey vector, with gray georgian buildings layered over cathedrals and modern business complexes

From the posts below, you might think that Emma’s story takes place entirely in the countryside, in the tiny little cottage, but sometimes they go to the big city. So this background image will be used for urban scenes. The cityscape is mostly based on Dublin, with old, shabby Georgian architecture in the front, and a hint of Christ Church Cathedral in the distance.