Hello world. The Colclough here.
It's been a decade since we last posted anything here. Sorry about that.
Obviously we didn't intend for that to happen - we only planned to put the comic on a short hiatus while we restocked on new episodes. We'd finished scripting the next two chapters (XVII and XVIII, rounding off the fourth narrative day), and we'd started illustrating them... but the project lost momentum, and those chapters were never finished.
Until now.
This original site has fallen into disrepair since we stopped posting, with quite a few of the images going missing, and with hindsight a blog might not have been the best choice of format anyway. With this in mind, I've recently been working on a new definitive archive as a subdomain of my personal portfolio website, and while I was partway through that effort I started to think it would be nice, for completeness' sake, to finish illustrating the eight missing episodes so we could publish the 'lost chapters' as part of the new archive. As of today I've finished Episode 188, and with it Chapter XVII Dangerous Guests, which is now available to read along with all of the previous instalments at Fort Paradox's new home, https://fp.mattghc.com.
I've had a growing urge lately to get back into comic-strip creation, so (besides being able to lay Fort Paradox to rest with a little more dignity) my other major motivation for completing the lost chapters was to use them as an exercise to stretch my illustration skills, experimenting with various techniques and styles whilst also trying to make the drawings as expressive as possible... and maybe practicing for something bigger and better to come. Chapter XVIII remains in production, and will be added to the new archive once the last episode is complete. And there may or may not be a new cartoon series in the offing later this year or sometime in 2025, depending how things go.
Thanks for reading!
- The Colclough
