About

"The story follows Coron, a stone golem, who can feel, and regenerate, and think about his lot in life. There are many others like him... and many more who aren't. That is because he's a special kind of golem called a Faithful. Everyone knows they are capable of feeling, regenerating, and thinking about their lot in life, but it's what they don't know that scares them. After all, the strongest of hate is often rooted in fear."

The World

   

The Comic

Updates once a week, usually a thursday. Sometimes more than that.

Aquapunk is almost 6 years in the making. This pelagic dystopia began as nothing more than a hobbyist's conlang: Sennin. Esani were created to speak the new language, mythologies were written to give them context, and a world was made for them to exist in. The idea of nosda didn't actually come until I'd read Frankenstein, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, and seen Battlestar Galactica and Michael Bay's Transformers. After all of those things came together, I began to see this world as one bent by racist stigma, corrupted by absolute power, and twisted by marketable immortality.


The Author

Lo (Lauren) Baker; 23 year old cartooning and illustration graduate from the School of Visual Arts. Currently works freelance and colors other peoples' comics.

Likes mecha, robots, Tolkien, sci-fi, Mayan mythology, rocks, critters, dancing, cosplay, art theory, and lots of other stuff, like kitties. She currently lives in an apartment with 3 zombies and her cat, Lucky, whom she found on the street. Her fiance, a mister Shaun Knowler, is the love of her life, and she hopes to immigrate to Canada before the end of 2012 to be with him until old age and senility causes them to follow through with a suicide pact.

She was once injured on an expedition in Alaska and stranded in the wilderness for 3 days with nothing but a copy of John Norman's "Beasts of Gor" and a bottle of oxycodone.

Contact: doitforscience@gmail.com

FAQ

Q: Why the hell do you copy Mignola? That's stupid.
A: Every work ever created was derivative of something else, and trying to pretend that there's a totally and completely original way of drawing comics out there that I should have known about and used before anyone else is what's stupid. For me, the worldbuilding and storytelling is my top priority, and everything else is a means to that end. Both style and form.

Q: Then you must have a pretty big boner for his work, at any rate.
A: Eh, not really. Beyond the first 5 books, the Hellboy series is pretty lackluster (the ones he doesn't draw are just downright disappointing). I decided to use it because I wanted a faster way of drawing that didn't reduce everything to bubbly chibi cartoons. In other words, it's just what the comic needed. In fact, my other main style of drawing is a complete departure from Mignola, and much closer to stuff like Bill Watterson's. I also employ other styles, depending on the work, but my underlying drawing sense is the same in all of them.

Q: How are you publishing Aquapunk? I want a book!
A: Uh... uh... I haven't decided yet. D: Don't be surprised if you have to wait for the whole series to be done, though. That's what I'm currently leaning toward.