In Praise of Our Artists (Patreon)

So, we're taking a week off from the usual page posts and this will be the page for this week in order to give us some time to prep all the completed pages for future weeks. We thought it would be a good time to showcase the artists who've helped keep us going week in, week out for approximately 19 years now (on top of everything else, no one's quite sure exactly when Exiern started - revisting that particular topic soon!). Of course, there's many more artists but just for now, we're looking at the ones who were essential in guaranteeing at least one page for the main comic for the week.

In the beginning, it was Exiern creator Drowemos from (probably) sometime in 2005 (there's that uncertainty again) on MS Paint (top left) before he rebooted the comic. Check out the link here to see those original pages and see what ideas made the jump and what didn't (only to resurface on Dark Reflections: Chaos!).

Then there was Studio Katsumi (then Studio Boom), first published in 2005 (top right) until longtime artist Shipeng Lee (middle left). Subsequently, we then had Luis who is still our current artist (middle right), though Colin Wells (bottom left) very fortunately was able to keep us going for well over half a year with what was meant to be either a side story or a bonus interlude but turned out to be all we had at the time and for some time to follow!

Then, Studio Katsumi returned (bottom right) when Luis had to step out again for a while (and has now produced many hundreds of pages among other things for the most recent iteration of the alternate universe tale Exiern: Dark Reflections - namely Dark Reflections: Chaos) and Luis will be back next week after Spying With Lana creator has just completed his 21 page stint with an adventure for Typh and Peonie that we'd been publishing on the $10 tier for the last few years.

Anyway, it's thanks to all these people featured here in this collage page assembled by Sean Harrington (check out Spying With Lana here!) that we've had some kind of Exiern story page week in, week out more often than not. Sean, of course extremly modestly put his art in the absolute bottom left corner. Then of course there's the huge number of other artists who've also created filler pages for us as well and one day, we'll definitely cover everyone more comprehensively at a future date.

See you all again for new story pages next week and even sooner on Patreon for subscribers!