[Click to view comic: 'Circumvention']

Now that I have your attention, hello and welcome. I'm Aylear, author of Comics so profound you have to Google half their content, Inc., and this is my hopeful debut.

In this thread I will be jotting down comics and series of mine worth a glance, or simply for my own use. I have a fairly specific favoured style and humour, and so my comics are often based in intellectuality, science, math, philosophy, physics, language, literature, and - occasionally - Shakespeare and anal beads. A lot of comics also contain a multitude of references to anything and everything, and it's fun to see who notices. I have an atypical and, I've been told, unique style all my own here on clipart-based Stripcreator, which is pretty damn cool and as fun a compliment as I could have asked for. Thus, if you don't like my comics, well -- sorry to disappoint, and I'm not surprised.

On the off chance you're into unusual humour, hopefully you'll find something you like. I appreciate any comments you can send my way, and please vote if you can be buggered. I'll stick around until my inspirational well runs dry.

And just because a debut isn't complete without a little alienation:

[Click to view comic: 'Paradise']

Ta.

Dramatis personæ:

Main players
Ayl, mathematician, physicist, linguist, theoretician, and the second coming of Dan. No one knows who or what Dan was, nor why it requires a second coming
Coleoptera Bailey, (Bail); theoretician, artisan, and cohort of Ayl
Apod, the Anthropomorphic Personification Of Death and Creator of Pregnant Pauses
Dean, his less successful half brother
Dead People, Dead People

Others
Fayle, librarian, scholar, genius, and completely unaware of any of it
Maximillian, Fayle's normal half and Keeper of the Tome

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 Ayl and Bail.

[Click to view comic: 'Objectional']

My first comic is awful for a whole different reason.

[Click to view comic: 'Intermission']

[Click to view comic: 'Augury']

[Click to view comic: 'Predilection']

[Click to view comic: 'Cipher']

Death And All His Friends.

[Click to view comic: 'Quietus']

[Click to view comic: 'Mori']

[Click to view comic: 'Deadpan']

[Click to view comic: 'Discretion']

[Click to view comic: 'Misinterpretation']

 Fayle and Maximillian.

[Click to view comic: 'Recantation']

[Click to view comic: 'Cultivation']

[Click to view comic: 'Reprisal']

[Click to view comic: 'Propriety']

 Ayl and Bail.

[Click to view comic: 'Esoteric']

[Click to view comic: 'Derision']

[Click to view comic: 'Paradox']

[Click to view comic: 'Humourist']

 Leftovers.

[Click to view comic: 'Lunacy']

[Click to view comic: 'Where Are They Now']

[Click to view comic: 'Peculiar']

[Click to view comic: 'Scholyrical']

 Fayle and Maximillion

[Click to view comic: 'Acumen']

[Click to view comic: 'Recondite']

[Click to view comic: 'Physical']

OBSCURE PHYSICS JOKE ALERT

 Death And All His Friends.

[Click to view comic: 'Parting is such sweet sorrow']

[Click to view comic: 'Nescience']

[Click to view comic: 'Circumvention']

 Ayl and Bail.

[Click to view comic: 'Paradise']

[Click to view comic: 'Darwinian']

I haven't read them all yet, but I enjoy the ones featuring death.

I smell a tiny hint of Pratchett wafting from them...

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Kill Whitey.

tl;dr ur comix suk u shud maek jokez abot boobz r sumthn

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More lust than you can shake a stick at.

 Ayl and Bail.

[Click to view comic: 'Mate']

[Click to view comic: 'Artistic']

[Click to view comic: 'Apocryphal']

[Click to view comic: 'Sycophants']

That last batch was especially high quality.

In general, my favorites have been the Fayle and Max comics, even when I didn't understand them.

Going for highbrow humor is an artistic choice that, while it may cost you some readers, I would never try to dissuade you from.  But keep in mind that humor works best when it's accessible.  The greater the cognitive load that your comic places on your audience, the less likely it is they'll be laughing at the end.  I don't mean that you should avoid jokes about stellar nurseries because they might send readers to the encyclopedia.  I mean that you should think about delivering your jokes efficiently.  For example, consider these edits to "Humourist":

Substantially the same joke, but easier to read.  IMHO, anyway.

Keep up the good work. 

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

Thanks for the comments, ed.

Yes, I've been removing excess from my latest batch and it worked out quite well; the last comic, for example, went through two incarnations, each more simplified.

In the case of Ayl and Bail, however - at least for their more philosophical discussions - I've usually been willing to risk ambiguity in favour of staying in character. Ayl and Bail amuse themselves with their superfluent vocabulary choices, which was part of the point; it's equally a writing exercise for me as much as an outlet for humour and ideas.

But, I fully understand where you're coming from. Though I won't sacrifice Ayl's linguistic musings, I'll keep working on abolishing excess. A simplified strip is a better strip. I know this; I was always aware of this. Ignoring this reality was a conscious choice -- obviously not the best choice for acquiring readers, but in the end I had a lot of fun.

Hopefully I'll get better at certain things. Hell, I've only done 40 comics. It's a learning experience all the way.

Yeah, I realize that the elaborate speech is part of the joke in some cases.  (I also realize that I frequently don't follow my own advice.)

Something else I was wondering is why Bailey so often faces away from Ayl when they're talking.  Are they standing in line for something?  Does he have sensory organs on his backside? Or can he simply not bear to face him after what happened between them on that cold, moonless night in Houston two winters ago? 

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

Often*, I have to make a comic and let it sit for a few months before I can re-word it so that the dialog really flows with no extraneous speech.  Humor is speed, after all; the faster your reader can process the joke, the less likely he is to get bored, or see it coming, or otherwise miss the "zing."

That being said, I love the comics.  But, of course, you knew that.

* As often as I make a comic, anyway. Which these days is about never.

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"Old" is the old new.

Scyess

Ironically, this is exactly what I was trying to say, expressed more efficiently. 

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

evil_d

Ironically, this is exactly what I was trying to say, expressed more efficiently. 

Hahahah, exactly. I wasn't immune to the irony of us conversing at length about being too wordy and having Scyess The Great drop in and condense it for us.

evil_d

Watch the background "move" (background picture shifts with each frame) and the perspective of the characters; they're walking side by side. If that's not immediately obvious (I thought it was), then I should probably stop. I'll miss the fence, though.

No word on the cold and moonless night in Houston.

Scyess

I do miss you making comics frequently. I could always drop by my bookmarks and find something new in /Scyess/ :)

Thanks for the love, I really appreciate it.

Aylear

I guess I'm just so used to Stripcreator comics that have no sense of perspective at all.  I didn't notice the changing backgrounds, but a more observant reader might. 

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

[Click to view comic: 'Physical']

This is great.

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Ham-fisted ham fisting.

 Fayle and Maximillian.

[Click to view comic: 'Endeavour']

[Click to view comic: 'Concessions']

[Click to view comic: 'Satirical']

[Click to view comic: 'Recidivism']

[Click to view comic: 'Violated']

Meh. Not a big fan of the latest batch. Tomorrow is another day.

 Third clarinet.

[Click to view comic: 'Where's Waldo?']

[Click to view comic: 'Salvation']

[Click to view comic: 'Grief']

[Click to view comic: 'Double Take']

[Click to view comic: 'Witcher']

Stop churnning out funny comics.

Seriously.

Stop it.

No wait don't stop. 

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More lust than you can shake a stick at.

these are fantastic. i have a bit of a man crush on you now after going through them. it'll pass faster if you keep your drapes open for about a week

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what if nigger meant kite

Well, I've already told you I think you're the most consistently funny man on stripcreator, so there isn't really any need to reiterate it but I do anyway.

I'll leave an inch of space between my drapes for you. I gotta preserve some mystery.