Mini Toons
What do you do with fantasy RPG miniatures if you aren't gaming with them? Make a comic. There are a few problems, like what kind of comic can you create with an army of lizard men? I don't even know what some of the minis are. Maybe they're from some fringe game or expansion pack? That I have a trove of dungeons and dragons miniatures intimates a certain depth of geekiness. One could argue that having a comic strip of them represents a more extreme form, but once you're past a certain level of geekdom no one is going to care about the decimal points of depravity.

The strip is about, if you hadn't guessed it, man's inhumanity to man. Well, ok it's about role playing games in general, modern tech employment, coffee, and a few other geek pursuits thrown in.

When I started this comic I had limited knowledge of other comic on the web. I had read Penny Arcade and thought it was fantastic. (update: penny arcade is still fantastic. It's the top of the webcomic food chain, as far as I'm concerned.) Then I tried a few other web comics and was disappointed. There were a lot of comics that seemed to be simply journals of some persons life and relationships with a few fantasy elements thrown in. After I made the jump into web cartooning I discovered that there were more web comics than species of birds. I've found a few webtoons that I really like a lot, more that are enjoyable, and a slew that are unfinished or, well, should have been left unfinished. Now minitoons is a part of that online sea of flotsam.

Most of the art that is actual art is done in photoshop or GIMP. I use photoshop for the final images, but sometimes there is an effect I can only get with GIMP. The miniatures themselves were painted by many different people. Most of them are mine, but I get help from several gaming buddies.

I'm adding one comic a month . I'd like to do more, but there's the full time gainfull employment and the family. I've run out of room on this site, so newer comics appear on comicspace , but I'll still link them here.