Celadore
Celadore is © Caanan Grall
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Celadore has failed. Christian, an evil corporate vampire has lit the day candle, which allows vampires to walk in the sun. Celadore must set out to destroy the candle, only her soul has been bounced into the comatose body of Evelyn Massey, an 11yr old girl. Plagued by the ghost of the actual Evelyn, Celadore is eventually joined by Sam, the over-eager next door neighbor, and her old posse: Jams, the only Frankenstein ever born of two others; Wax, Celadore's ex-boyfriend; And Ness, Celadore's business partner, tooth fairy, & qualified masseuse. Adventure, hilarity, and surprises ensue in a world where even magic isn't safe from capitalism.
I had voted for Capitan Luck, but originally it had been close. I changed my vote because of the ad you're running on starslip.com which hints at a really cool story with deeper characters. I want to see how both Frankenstein's Monster and the Tooth Fairy have to play into this quirky occult comic! Savvy advertising!
I have been doing cartoons for many years, not strip, I think your work is excellent. I know how much time and effort plus inspiration goes into even a simple cartoon, Well done.
I wish you the greatest success.
Every story has a parallel. It's not the story that makes it good but in the telling!
Congrats on going up to top position!
100 favorites in two weeks. Congrats.
Fantastical congratulations! You deserve it! Keep plugging!
Hey Ron, Steve, Kid, orijone, Iho, tomstan, Dustin, Jules - thanks!
Sam - thanks for the plug on your blog! :o)
(And Bryy if you're still watching, thanks too!)
Johnnyray - I'm sure that is the exactly the kind of comment Zuda likes to hear. I know I do.
And Neil - put up your dukes sir! ;oP
Thanks to EVERYONE for getting me to the top, you're all the awesomest! ... but it's only been one week, so newcomers? - keep on voting! :oD
NUMBER ONE CAANAN!!!!
Wooooo!
I'm prayin' it holds for ya man.
Really enjoyed the read. Nice work!
Go Caanan!
cool concept and well done. good job.
Hey man I'm new here and I gotta say this comic of yours is pretty damn good. In fact I just signed up a few minutes ago just to give you a vote. It's that good. I hope to see more of your comic, 'cuz at first I was skeptical (vampire-ish stuff isn't usually my thing), but it's got some great humor and dialog in there and the art's also really good. I also had a lot of fun acting out the characters in my head (if you ever get this thing picked up for animation, maybe I could be a voice actor? Haha just jokin' on that one. I'd probably only be good for one of the vamps or the little girl's dad). In short, great read and keep it up. You deserve it.
Congratulations!You must believe it,this is your place.I wish you keep 1st rank till the end.
Good stuff.
Congrats, man! I'm not upset because your comic is great and if I have to lose the top spot to someone, I'm glad it's you... but here I come...
Congrats, Caanan!!!!!
told you you'd get over that hump!
Congratulations on taking the lead, Caanan!
Have to agree with Pen on the Buffy take of things here-- leading with a vampire chase mixing some humor and action makes that inevitable I think. But it really gets my interest at the hospital scene, where the and the expressions and action is paced to really grab you. Although after the ghost/spirit arrives it was difficult to tell who was who-- it a bit confusing to tell entirely what was going on by the end of it...
You can do eeet! 'eh? =D
Being an art student, I must say, I love the graphics... I want to see more too. Keep up the good work!
Interesting idea, I'm really intrigued and can't wait to read more.
I usally don't like stories about vampires, but i like your job.You already have my vote.
cool stuff....when's the next chapter coming out?...
I really enjoyed that :) I want to know more!
Kittles, frequentcontributor, raven, edna - thanks muchly for the comments!
Bryy thanks for the vote! I don't envy you guys out there this month, so much good stuff to choose from, but if your vote rests with me, I will most certainly take it! :o)
So, RKB, come back here when you finally vote for me, and let me know. Appreciate it. Ha ha! ;oD
I think if I was out of the running this month, my vote would have gone to Captain Luck or Colonel McTaggert. Usually I have my own clear winner after the first read through, so it's heartening to know I would have been torn for once. Zuda just keeps getting better.
I don't tell people who I am going to vote for finally until after I get done switching my vote around a few times.
You won my vote back from Hannibal.
Oh my gods frequent contributer actually likes something. Way to go guys (he hates almost everything).
I liked it. I'm worried about that little girl. I got hooked. Good job.
Interesting, nice art and story, and not really much like Buffy at all... yet. I could stand to read more.
This is the first comic I read this month, and I'm still not sure if I'll vote for it. The art is fairly good, also the colors, thought sometimes it looks a little rushed.
About the story: I've never been a fan of vampires stuff, but I've seen a lot of it. The main problem whit vampire stories is that is a theme too exploited, and when somebody try to give it a new angle, something different, he or she ends most of the time basically reinventing the entire mythos around it.
This can be really hard to pull it out right, as people is tired of the same old cliché but resistant to rationalize the vampire thing through new explanations (even more if it has to be interpreted using XXI century science). I'm not saying it can be done, it's just really, really hard.
I like the vampire-hunter-in-child-body thing, and I think this may be the strongest point of the story. Anyway, good luck.
Great comic!
Hey mpd, thanks for throwing that chunk up there! :o)
I am fully on board with everything you've said, and this is going to seem like a lot of excuses, but this is just how it is... I'm a comic strip artist. Three/four panels, black and white. That's pretty much what I do. I don't know how I end up with the 24 hour comics I do, it must be a panic button thing, but I do like to have twisty, crazy stories where no-one is safe and main characters don't even become clear until halfway through.
Initially my story was going to jump straight into the stuff with Evie, because I am MUCH better with the kids stuff, but then it became important to at least show Celadore's world and who she is, so I started with that 3 page scene. I thought killing off my title character in the first three pages would be neat! :o) Condensing enough into three pages that you get an idea of who Celadore is, and how feared she is by vampires (and monsters in general) and introducing Christian, and the concept of the day candle was a tough ask, and those three pages were re-written a lot. Eventually I just had to go, ya know what? That's it. I'll do that. Get it out of the way. Let's go. Because the meat of the story begins when 'Evelyn' wakes up and that's when it starts to get screwy.
Like I said, not excuses... just letting you guys in a little on my processes.
And while I'm here, I'll say thanks for all the votes and favouritings and stars! And a special thanks to all those who have befriended me too! That's cool. But who is Caanan01? There can't be another unfortunate soul out there with the same name as me is there? Speak up! :oD
Here we are another talkback clogged up with nonsense! We all know where your comics are, duh! I've said it many times before but not for a while, sometimes, not always but sometimes, you can be right behind a creator and his comic, your finger hovering over the vote button, but then he says something too much, too far and it sets your teeth on edge thinking – hang on, this guy might be a complete jerk?!? Perhaps if he shuts up, the thought drifts to the back of your mind and later on you give him the vote. But then if he bangs on and on you become so irritated you begin to think, you know what? Perhaps I'll just vote for anyone else, anyone at all. There's promotion and there's promotion, and then there's the self defeating, annoying and ultimately destructive behaviour that's being demonstrated here and on all the talkbacks at the moment. It's incredibly immature, a bit like wrecking your parents house by throwing a party while they are out. OK, you're all having a laugh and enjoying yourselves and it is supposed to be fun, but cool it down now guys. The editors are not going to be terribly impressed with any of this. Back to the strip at hand. Now I did promise Canaan he already had my vote after seeing his incredible 24-hour comic a while back. I'm going to have to renege on that promise now. I don't know what you've done to kill this strip, but it looks like it's suffocating under some very unsympathetic colours. I can see in the characters faces, particularly the little girl, some of what I thought was so brilliant previously and some of the scenes in the hospital are still quite good, but those early night-time screens are horrible. I use the word horrible here in the sense that they are horrible compared to what I've seen you do. Compared to most other strips here it's still top notch stuff. But. I was expecting more. The other thing I was disappointed by what the fairly straight story. Where did that imagination go? The hospital scenes are still very well drawn (very very well drawn – I like 'em a lot. I think I'll keep 'em), just not to great effect because of the story. I'm not at all sure about the story. Like many others this month it feels derivative, though obviously it might go in some new direction, yet this is all I or anyone else has to go on, so no wonder people are going to throw the B word at you a lot. You can hardly blame them. Pretty good dialogue though, nice design, lots of hard work and positives, but overall a feeling of slight disappointment. Feels like you're holding back. Trying too hard to be taken seriously perhaps. Let yourself go. You are an incredible talent. You need to take bigger risks. That's my opinion, and mine alone. Very good luck with the rest of the competition. My bookies have you down to win.
In Neil's spirit of promoting. Come on over and vote for Golden. I know you will love it. And I am starting a little incentive contest. Here is the deal. The person who gets the most people to the Golden pages will receive a one of a kind sketch of Kintaro signed by Scott and me. Get all of your friends, loved ones and associates to stop by Zuda and take a look at Golden. If they leave a message stating that you sent them over there I will keep track and the person with the most referrals by May 23rd will receive the signed Kintaro sketch as well as a signed copy of the script. Sound fun? If you have any questions about it drop me a note here or over in the Zuda talk back section. Don't waste any time. Start getting those folks over there now!
If you want to see a picture of the sketch you will receive go here...
http://www.lostdoggrafix.com/zuda/kintaro-collage-small.jpg
Enjoy! This is a taste of things to come.
Troy
Dear Haters of Neil Kleid, if yer going to change your votes and abandon your favourite creators to help somebody take him down, you might as well give the fifth ranked competitor your vote instead of number two. thats boring, and this is MAYO, the competition that breaks all the rules!
PLEASE DUDES do the V word to CHILDREN OF BIGHAND!
Thanks Loran! Thanks Steve. :o)
I also finally have some behind the scenes work up on my blog.
occasionalcomicsdisorder.blogspot.com
More to come! :o)
It's my usual blog, so there's a whole bunch of other stuff up there too!
Hope you can get over that hump to number 1
Thanks Albatross! :o) Not too shabby.
And thanks JFx!
Brilliant comic!
This small sample has me captivated and wanting to see more.
-L.
congratulations on the excellent rank so far! i'm still holding out for a different choice, but my top four are, incidentally, the month of may's top four. keep at it and good luck, man!
Hey, Celadorians!
After the first ranking, ACTION, OHIO is in first place! But this contest isn't over and we're going to have to fight to stay there... so please register, favorite and vote for us all throughout May.
To promote the comic, I'm taking ACTION, OHIO on the road - I'll be appearing as a guest of the Comic Book Club, New York's only improvised comic book talk show, this Tuesday night at 8pm! Please come and celebrate with me, Alex Zalben, Justin Tyler and Pete LePage as we talk comics, Zuda and the wonder that is beer. Oh, we'll go get beer after. Yes, we will:
Also, 'dig' us at Digg, friend us at MySpace and watch this space for upcoming interviews, contests and ACTION EXCITEMENT!
Wonderful work Cannan, you need to bee in the top spot.
Wow! Just popping in to see how I'm going.
Thanks to everyone for the favourites, and comments, and even just reading it!
Gwen - I have seen some Buffy. Very little though. One of which I found to be very annoying where she comes back from the dead and runs around with a pained expression on her face and doesn't utter a single word. That was weird. I did watch a few episodes when it started (but quickly gave up to due to the poor handling if its schedule by the moron TV station in Australia that ran it), and if I remember right, the vampire's ultimate goal was to open a hellmouth or something like that? I can assure you, my vampires have a _very_ different agenda than taking over the world. I was tossing up on who to cast as my villains for this first story - zombies, vampires, frankensteins, reincarnated evil people in new host bodies - and vampires seemed to fit the story nicely.
I'll be getting around to posting new art and hints at where the story is going on my blog soon, but I've been swamped with work, so it'll be a few days off yet.
Thanks again for all the comments, folks!
This is _still_ exciting. :oD
This reminds me of when Starfish was compared to Superman....ahhhhhh those were the days.
Estoy de acuerdo mi amigo. Sorry I agree now to send it to feed back en masse.
We should request Zuda-emoticons.
I like smiley faces. :) ;) :P >_< :0)
Maybe I should do that as well, cause my other post had sarcasm dripping of it. It is hard to tell in writing though isn't it.
Pen Gwen,
My original post wasn't directed at you at all. It just happened to be right after your post. Honestly.
It wasn't directed to anyone in particular. It was just an attempt to say, "Ok, there might be similarities to Buffy. Check. Now, can we move on?"
I think Buffy is mentioned more in the comments than the main character, Celadore.
From now on I will use smiley faces, :), whenever I make a light-hearted comment.
:)