The Little Engine That Could…and Did
It’s amazing to me that, since December, I have never mentioned FCHS on this site. That, my friends, is a grave error because it’s one of the best projects I’ve ever been involved in.
Let’s go back a few steps. FCHS is the second online comic strip I did at The Chemistry Set (the first being STUCK, with Tom Williams). FCHS is special for a few reasons. 1, it is largely autobiographical (with a lot of changes, but the events happened). 2, it is drawn by Rachel Freire, who made her comic pencilling debut on this strip. If STUCK was my disaster movie, FCHS is my teen comedy. Recently, we were contacted by a publisher who wants to print FCHS, and we agreed…which is why there are no new installments at The Chemsitry Set. It’s worth going back and reading because when the book(s) come out, what you see at Chem Set will be changed to fit a more “comic book” aesthetic (rather than the daily comic strip aesthetic it has now).
More on the book(s) and the publisher at a later date.
And when you’re there, check out all the other strips that are up. Some stand outs:
1 Way Ticket
Kare-Kare Comics
Styx Taxi (also drawn by Tom Williams)
Holiday Men
The Gloom
Come The Dawn
Todt Hill
Scheherezade
There are PLENTY of comics to read there, but these are a few of my favorites. And don’t forget:
NO FORMULA: STORIES FROM THE CHEMISTRY SET is in stores THIS MONTH!