Hi everyone! My name's CJ and earlier this year I started a comic called Sapwood Guard. It's a fantasy comic about a woman who guides people through a malevolent forest. It's also a prequel to a comic that I started planning a long... long time ago. I knew I wanted more practice before tackling that project and eventually came up with an idea for a shorter prequel story (planned to be ~150 pages).

My background is in science, and I received my PhD in Neuroscience earlier this year. I have a lot of arts and craft related hobbies outside of drawing (sewing, origami, little bit of jewelry making, flower arranging). I also like hiking a lot!

Anyway, I recently finished drawing chapter 1 of Sapwood Guard and decided to just put the rest of it online because my update schedule is chaotic neutral (could be a page a week, could be quiet for a month and then 9 pages)! Looking forward to being more active on here!

Hello and welcome to the forums! It is hard to get out and say hi especially in a new environment!

But Please... feel free to tool around, jump in some already established threads or just start one of your own! Hope you'll have fun kicking it with us!

That's a pretty sweet webcomic you've got started there!

Hello CJ! Welcome to the forums Feel free to poke around!

I poked around your webcomic and saw the giant doggo I'll be back.

hello and welcome! I'm new here too. Your premise sounds really cool. I'm a sucker for nature related stuff, and spooky trees seem pretty awesome.

Thanks! And for sure, I've spent a while reading things in the critique forum, actually interacting with people, not so much.



Thank you! I was going to give my main character a horse and thought nah, why do that when I could be drawing a giant fluffy dog?

Hey CJ! Great to see you here! Welcome fellow PhDer!

Hello and welcome
Your comic looks very interesing. I'm definitely adding it to my reading list.

Hi Kez! I was thinking about this and you might appreciate it: I was planning the first chapter of my comic while in paper publishing limbo (minor revisions but took forever). Wrote my struggles into the comic in the form of researchers who died but were still trying to go back and get their data to publish it.

Bwah hah hah! brilliant!