The Return of Ian’s World…

4 years ago, to the day (well I started this on 24th), I took the notion that I would quite fancy drawing a web comic.

I am not a particularly talented artist. But somehow I put together a strip featuring, to begin with at least, characters based upon, or at least chariactures of 2 close friends and myself. What started off as something I was doing just to exercise the creative juices turned into something more. I discovered I was beginning to build a readership that was stretching beyond the inner circle of friends who would really appreciate the subtle commentary on my friends and I’s nuances, and that people from as far away as Japan and New Zealand were following it. I soon moved the comic from its humble location on a blogging website to a purposebuilt site…www.ians-world.net (now defunct).

I reached a lot of milestones…the first 50, the centenary, the birthday…but early 2007, I started to learn guitar, and coupled with lots of university work, I wasn’t really enjoying drawing the comic anymore, and didn’t feel I could match the schedule anymore, and so with a whimper more than a bang, Ians World finished on strip #167 .

Until now.

Recently, encouraged by friends recalling the strip with fond memories, I started to think about it starting it up again, which brings us to today, the 4th anniversary of where it all began. Once more into the breach…Ian’s World is back.

More Ian. More Lee. More Lori. More minature cult. And much much more fairy jokes.

Without further ado…I present #168: Back with a bang

Stay Classy,

Ian

P.S. I’m looking into a way of hosting the pics on WordPress without having them resized (hence the photobucket hosting), plus how to get the entire back catalogue available too. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Stay tuned for more .