Becky here! This one was inspired by a comment left on our Facebook page by Edmond Manning who wrote: “I admit, I love your apocalypse comics, though they terrify me at the same time. My favourite of yours, “I only wish we were remembered as more than terrors and tyrants,” is so hauntingly beautiful I…
Inspiration doesn’t always come from the places you’d expect. One of my workmates sent me a song from a Halsey album called Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, and the name sparked off a chain of thought that lead to this strip. I’m kind of surprised that it didn’t turn out unremittingly tragic like so many of my…
Izak did the original illustration for this as a standalone piece of art, not a comic – but when I saw those two plummeting figures, I knew it was going to end up on IZS. I will admit, I’ve been watching Westworld, which sort of explains why hostile androids were top of mind when I…
At the end of the day, aren’t we all just a collection of holes, wanting to be filled with something. God. Fingers. Your father’s attention. I don’t know. Hey watch this video! This song kicks ass.
With the universe intent on pulling everything apart, good intentions are not enough. Figuring out the visuals for this strip was tricky – Izak and I went through a series of iterations, especially in the panels referring to entropy. A planet breaking apart, eggs cracking into a pan, a crumbling statue… In the end, I…
The Early Bird always arrives early. The weekend is over! But I don’t know how good it was because I’m writing this in the past. Hopefully you’re all living in a world where they’ve successfully figured out how to grow synthetic meat on soldiers so they don’t need to carry their ration packs in their…
Note to self: Don’t bother assuming you’ll have time to do anything while laying up a magazine and having a Zinefest looming on the horizon. The week kicked off with me buying two Yu-Gi-Oh decks out of stupidity and then finally getting my hands on a copy of Skate 3 (Man, PS3 players are still…
You know how at work you’re thinking about all the awesome projects you’re finally going to get off the ground as soon as you get home. Then you get home and you’re like “actually nah, I’ll just play games or flick snot at the ceiling instead.” I guess that’s where my mind was when I…
Even though some scholars believe that most of the knowledge in the Library of Alexandria was not actually lost but preserved in various contemporary libraries, I still find the story of its burning particularly poignant. As far as anyone can figure out, it wasn’t torched intentionally but was just collateral damage in another careless military…
This was never really intended to be an environmental piece but it sort of ended up that way. My original idea was about how as we strip back Earth’s mysteries one by one, the world becomes… less sacred somehow. Less wonderful. Sacrificing mystery for knowledge is a worthwhile trade-off, but we still lose something beautiful.…