SUMMARY
Cyn Wolf is a comic strip that has no plot and is filled with flat, undeveloped canine characters that basically do whatever they want. And yet, the comic is not all that bad.
Cyn Wolf is a comic strip that has no plot and is filled with flat, undeveloped canine characters that basically do whatever they want. And yet, the comic is not all that bad.
On an ordinary day, I sat at my desk and drew a comic. It was supposed to be a one-shot deal, but for some reason I kept drawing. In retrospect, was that ordinary day transformed into an extraordinary one because it was the beginning of a wonderful, sarcasm-packed Saturday canine comic?
Perhaps.
Cyn started out with big, anime-like eyes, a complex fur pattern, and two levels of shading. Her job was to be cynical about everything. Contrary to popular thinking, some things do not change.
At first I drew everything by hand, scanned it into the computer, and painstakingly inked and colored it in Photoshop. This took a horrific number of hours. The later strips in this period were inked by hand to save time. Each individual “strip” occurred in the space of a gigantic vertical box – a nonconformist format that I made up because I like breaking rules.
As much as I loved the unconventionality, I couldn’t stand the amount of wasted white space in my format, so I switched to the ordinary 3 panel comic strip. Then I gave up publishing strips randomly (which sometimes meant not posting anything for several months) and committed to once a week. This was also when the website launched, I got a tablet, and Argent unwittingly joined the pack.
The comic continued on, and I realized that I might possibly be criticized for only having red and blue characters. For the sake of diversity, Bingo and Raúl made their first appearance and have stuck around ever since. I will let you know that three-and-a-half main characters is almost too many for a strip that only updates once a week. But I manage.
Right now the comic is entering its third year. Personally I consider it to be more like the second year, since the first one was pretty weird.*
*Weirdness is measured by the number of anime eyes per panel.
There were people in Cyn Wolf, once. This, however, is not a fictional comic strip, so humans stopped making appearances after strip 9.
Canines don’t have last names.
Bingo came close to being named Banana. However, bingo and dingo rhyme, while banana and dingo do not.
You would think that Raúl would be named Ringo to follow the law of rhyming, but the law of accenting takes precedence over the law of rhyming.