Curse

Storn · Sep 13, 2006, 02:31 PM // 14:31

Catspaw is written by John C. Hocking, author of Conan and the Emerald Lotus (one of the best Conan pastiches IMO). And it is illustrated by me, Storn A. Cook. I'm a big Guild Wars lover, and I think some of the aesthetic of Guild Wars has rubbed off on me.

John and I are trying to bring back a sense of adventure, sword and sorcery and decidedly old school approach. It is odd and wonderful that with brand new technologies of the internet, wacom tablets, photoshop... I think Catspaw most resembles Prince Valiant in structure. So, decidedly old school.

The story concerns a young ambassador swept up into dangerous intrigues. Along with her scruffy bodyguard.

The link below will take you to Sword and Sorcery's main page, click on the large Catspaw button and that will bring you to the beginning. If you HAVE been following Catspaw, there is a link that will take you to the latest page. There is a new page ever Wednesday.

Page 7, Chapter 2 just went up today. Just where is that assassin going?!?!?

http://www.swordandsorcery.org/

unholy guardian · Sep 13, 2006, 06:58 PM // 18:58

ooo, great comic

Blazing · Sep 13, 2006, 07:33 PM // 19:33

Well done... i hope the story turns a bit more imersive(? im portuguese i cant know it all but i think this is the word) but its a very good work. Your drawing are like fast draw stile, i like it.

Good luck from now on, ill keep reading here

Edit: forgot to mention the colors, i like them VERY mch, they give an epic ancient stile... i rly like it.

Storn · Sep 18, 2006, 07:28 PM // 19:28

Blazing, thank you for your comment. I think it will become more immersive. A lot of what John and I are doing is riffing off our love of Pulp and Noir writing.... so we are trying to get that vibe in before we get to the meat of the story.

but we are just a few pages from meeting the bad guy and the story really starts to build at that point.

Storn · Sep 18, 2006, 07:29 PM // 19:29

I also do table top roleplaying. These are sketches done while we gamed Friday night. They are not meant to be works of art, just quickie interpertations of a personalities.

Here are two supporting cast NPCs from our Prime Time Adventures game: Lions at the Gate.

If you are interested in the actual play write ups of a really great, avant garde system.. check out:

week one, Pilot: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=21411.0

week two: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=21510.0

And then the pics themselves:

These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/

Storn · Sep 20, 2006, 11:29 AM // 11:29

Page 8, Chapter 2 of Catspaw, the full color fantasy webcomic is up. Our duo do a little bickering while attending to the business at hand.

http://www.swordandsorcery.org/

Storn · Sep 27, 2006, 02:42 PM // 14:42

Up to Page 9, Chapter 2 of Catspaw, Who are these new playas?

http://www.swordandsorcery.org/

TheNeverscammer · Oct 04, 2006, 09:04 AM // 09:04

Ooh! Storn, I know you've got a DeviantArt account, would you please be so kind as to post the link here? Many thanks in advance!

Storn · Oct 06, 2006, 02:45 PM // 14:45

I have a photobucket account... not a deviantart.

My photobucket is here: http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/

My website is here: http://www.stornc.rpggallery.com/

Storn · Oct 11, 2006, 06:02 PM // 18:02

CATSPAW UPDATE!

Page 11, Chapter 2 of Catspaw is up. Juuust how can I guy flick a gem through someone's shoulder anyhow?!?!?

http://www.swordandsorcery.org/

Storn · Oct 18, 2006, 04:38 PM // 16:38

Page 12, Chapter 2 of Catspaw is up. And here is where we find out why Maric is called "Mad" Maric Alburon!

http://www.swordandsorcery.org/

Storn · Nov 15, 2006, 02:04 PM // 14:04

I've been lax in updating people on the latest pages of Catspaw. Been fighting colds, deadlines and such.

However, today, page 15 of Chapter 2 has gone up, concluding Chapter 2.

http://www.swordandsorcery.org/