Author Archive: A.Fraser
Self Employed cartoonist currently in Fort Wayne Indy. BFA Aquinas College 2000, post college, Metal smithing: Oxbow 97, Animation: Oxbow 2000, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts: Ceramics 04-05.
Nina Hudoc
Nina was given the assignment to guard and escort the queen elect to a safe destination. Failing to do so, she is now given the task to retrieve her unharmed. Nina takes this mission personally. It was Miernie who inspired Nina to join the Tontin sisterhood and become a Warcaptain. Â Not only will her mission force her to question her perceptions of herself, but her perception of the universe on whole. Will she survive?
Toc-Tic premieres in May of 2012.
Esther
In the world out side the clock work, Bats live a free and open existence. However, within the great clock they live in hiding. This is due to the belief of the clock citizens that the bones of bats are holy, and angelic. Many wooden cross gears still feature their bones.
Bonzai Guacamole
Bonzai Guacamole has been sworn by duty and country to return the wayward princess to her throne. His strict adherence to this duty though, leaves a wake of devastation and loss of property.
You might ask yourself how does a kung-fu assassin move? By his sense of smell.
Pea Gardenia
Princess Pea Gardenia is the reluctant heir to the Mole Kingdom’s throne. When she becomes queen of the mole people, she will be waited on hand and foot and need for nothing. Sounds Great! Except the queen weighs over 2 tons and is responsible for birthing the entire royal court. So you can understand why she’s run away.
Skillet Hampton
Skillet was a member of a group of street thugs paid to kidnap the Queen elect. But after his fellow members where wiped out by a rival gang, he is left as the only witness to the kidnapping. Unfortunately he was not at the hand off, and…
He can’t talk. He’s a complete mute. But his Hat talks for him. Percival can read minds only while worn and only of the wearer. He only remembers waking up in a hat  shop and nothing before that. He and Skillet go a ways back.
Savoit
Chancellor of the reptilian parliament, Savoit is an example of the sometimes rocky relations between mammalian and Reptilids since the cold blood war. On one hand Savoit is very much the progressive, working for a more ecumenical relationship between the peoples. But Savoit has his own agenda, himself.
Baku
The allegiance’s of the Baku along with her real name are not very clear. For the time being she is assisting Nina on her mission to track down the kidnapped Concubines.
Harlequin Guards
What they lack in brains they make up for in numbers, and boy, do they need the numbers.
Miernie
Miernie is the Queen Elect. Formerly she was a warrior priestess of he Tontin sisterhood known as a “Warcaptain”. He standing down from her position to become a royal concubine was highly controversial among her fellow sisters. Not as controversial as when the King chose her to be his bride, and the Queen Elect. Now the most powerful of the Clock-work aristocracy wants her dead, only one group will take her alive.
Joseph “Hide” Burkhart
Joseph Burkhart is a municipal computer maintenance programmer who works from home. His home is so densely filled with computer (It’s all one system) that he lives within inches of core processors and relays. He gained the nick name “hide” due to the gripping agoraphobia he suffers from. Growing up he had a severe fear of open spaces. He would hide under couches, in the knee wells of desks, and in boxes. When he was five he saw his parents die during the “Apophis disaster”. Now he never leaves his house, and can do everything he needs to do from home via the internet.
Rabb
Rabb is the kind of guy you meet out in the middle of a desert. Enigmatic and full of trouble, yet one of the nicest guys you’ll meet. Though if your trying to avoid confrontations with the New Empyrean Order, it’s best not to befriend the guy who used to be their top engineer. Also it’s best not to befriend the guy who used the New Empyrean Order’s prized prototype super mech to defect. Hanzle and Finch got WAY more than they bargained for when Rabb started to tag along. And how is it that he knows so much about the Gradian colony from it’s golden days?
Geela Clutch
If being a three and half foot tall space gnome wasn’t whimsical enough, Geela Clutch takes whimsy a bit farther. Geela was attending an Ardorian boarding school for girls when she met up with Hanzle and Finch. When the New Empyrean Order came to shut down the school for harboring fugitives, (The Gradians) Geela and a large portion of the school left with the two scouts. Now Geela aids the intrepid duo in their search for a new home world.
Finch Greely & Hanzle Duncan
Finch Greely was born shortly after the fall of the Gradian colony and grew up in the refugee camps that took shelter deep underground. As part of the Advance Patrol, he volunteered to take part in a scouting mission to vanguard a new home for the Gradian colonists. Finch tends to be quiet and observant, prone to wait for a solution rather than dive in head long.
Unfortunately he was paired with…
Hanzle Duncan. The colony’s top fighter pilot. Brash, impatient, and some what arrogant. Hanzle first thought he was being awarded the job of scouting for a new home world, but soon realized he was being “dumped off”. The truth being the former, but Hanzle insists it’s the later. Fueling this is the polar opposite partner he’s saddled with. Finch. Differences aside, there mission is of utmost importance. The colony is in near squalor, and the Ark ships they live in are becoming over crowded.
Fesco Bobbins & Podzoil
Fesco Bobbins is, or was, a small time privateer/ small time smuggler until he met up with a group of Ardorian refugees from the Gradia colony. Now he’s a small time privateer/ small time smuggler/ Enemy of the New Empyrean Order.
Fesco’s people use the robot suits to function with other non-canind races. The suits use mind induction to not only facilitate bipedal loca-motion and better manual tool manipulation, but common verbal speech as well.
Pozoil is the super intelligent potato assistant to Fesco Bobbins who is also an enemy of the New Empyrean Order. Podzoil’s people are a maligned lot. A species of hyper intelligent tubers that without assistance cannot communicate or move on their own. They are oft mistaken for jumbo potatoes and hoisted off world to make orders of Jumbo fries.
Ariel DeLosNinas (Martenskin)
Ariel Delosnina’s (Actually Ariel “Martenskin”) was raised in an orphanage run by nuns in Brazil. Her mother, Minerva Martenskin, disappeared when she was five. Ariel joined the regional police and has been keeping order in a growingly chaotic world. That is until her mother suddenly reappeared and has not aged a day since she was last seen thirty years ago.
Minerva Martenskin
Minerva is a runaway. After her mother died, Minerva’s father remarried almost immediately. Minerva’s step mother was verbally and emotionally abusive. The only solace she had was when she helped out an old colleague of her mothers by cleaning his lab. Dr. Herkema, who took a shining to her, gave her a hand knit scarf the night before he was murdered in his lab. He also gave Minerva the control for an ancient giant machine. Minerva was the only witness to the murder, she also was the one who killed the assailant (Though she doesn’t know how). Now she’s on the run, from her family, from the government, and from a multitude of organizations who want control over “the machine”. But what is it?
Josephine Ortega
Joey, as her friends call her, lives in Clifton Heights in Cincinnati. Most of the time she hangs out with her friends under the Hopple Street Bridge smoking pot and jumping the trains.
Chicky-Cat Girl
Once upon a time there was a pregnant woman who sat a knit socks in a rocking chair. And while she sat and rocked and knit. A cat sat on her head and a chicken sat on her lap. Hence Chicky-cat girl was born. She grew up, went to community college and got an awkward and thankless minimum wage job at Chick-Fil-A.
Jenny Winter
Jenny dropped out of college to enter broadcast school. Now she works at a small public radio station in San Francisco were she slings records and bikes to work. “The hills are murder, but I get to listen to music all day. It’s a fair trade.” Â Although Jenny doesn’t feel the staccato “tick-tick-tick” of motherhood, she still wouldn’t mind getting married, though she would need a boy friend first.
Sgt. Major Snowberry
Sargent Major Fernella Pettycoat Snowberry of the Northern Mountain Fusileers. Sgt. Snowberry’s primary assignment is to patrol and protect the southern border of the Northern coast, but she constantly finds herself embroiled in shenanigans abroad. Always at he side is Junior Cadet Sarah Morgan, who excels at tying up loose ends while Snowberry is attempting to board a moving train from horse back, or lasso an enraged Daplodiphadapodon (Think Wooly Tyranosoarus).
Jack McPatch
Shrouded in mystery, little is known about Jack McPatch. His tendency to appear when you need him and disappear when you also need him, befuddle even the most ardent of the Northern Mountain Fusileers. With motivations beyond our knowing, McPatch has been labeled by some cultures as a trickster spirit and a demon to be feared or run out of town, where as other cultures just ignore him as an excentric. No one knows where or when he came from, some say he doesn’t know either. One thing is certain, It’s hard not to stare at a man who hovers one and a quarter inches off the ground.
Mins DelaCroix
 Mins Delacroix awoke having no memory of her past and who she was. Add to that, the gauntlets that were now fused to her hands. Screaming and crying in a child like state, the closest memory she has to her enigmatic past is a flash of blinding light, and the words “Electra-clytemnestra” .  For countless years,  she has haunted the witchfenns looking for answers to who she was and now is. She is accompanied by a silver grey cat named pyewacket.
Becka Plath
Becka Plath is one of Bridgette’s closest friends. She’s the only child of Robert Plath, an owner of a small comics and collectables shop. She works at the shop after school were she’s befriended the local geeks. One of which is Aziz, Bridgette’s boyfriend. Becka now feels conflicted, she’s seen first hand just how much Aziz means to Bridgette, but she can’t help but sense the growing feelings she has for him herself.
Day two: Aziz Bucket
Aziz Bucket, Born in Cairo but raised in England. Aziz’s Mother was the rebellious daughter of  a wealthy Egyptian business man. She was supposed to marry into an even wealthier family, but fell in love with a street punk in London (Aziz’s Dad). They eloped and started a family in England. When Aziz and his sister were older, the family fell on hard times and had to go to Aziz’s mother’s family for help. In exchance Aziz and Rheesha have to marry into the family their mother was supposed to originally. This is why Aziz must keep his love affair with Bridgette a secret.
(Authors note: Aziz is a “moonrat”, a type of badger like animal found in the middle east. Please note the Tail and little bear ears. He is not an epithet. )
Day one: Bridgette Ouvry
Bridgette Ouvry is the daughter of wealthy parents Henry and Millicent Ouvry. Handed down from house maid to house maid, Bridgette at one time was reckless in her pursuit of creature comforts, but after the birth of her first child (Benjamin), she began to settle down. Now her life is fraught with new tension. She has fallen in love with a middle-eastern boy from England, whose family objects to his relationship with Bridgette. Her estranged parents have been arrested for tax evasion, and the feds have seized their assets. Bridgette now lives with her ex house maid, Beatrice in a cramped one room apartment with Bea’s fiance Doug, Benji, and now Bea’s Mother Adele. Bridgette clings to sanity as the walls of her world close in.
Hello.
My name is Andrew. I’m 35, married, and a stay at home Dad. I went to college in Grand Rapids Mi and got a BFA (Big Funkin’ Art Degree) with a focus on Sculpture and Ceramics, but have spent the last 11 years teaching myself the craft of sequential art. I’m with a group of cartoonists here in Ft Wayne called Summit City Ink [summitcityink.blogspot.com]. We Drink, we draw, we watch crappy movies on Netflix, and we’ve put together a small but growing convention here in town. [www.summitcitycomiccon.com].
I love the art of comics, and have so since fifth grade when I started reading Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes. I love adventure comics like Tintin and Gottfredson’s Micky Mouse. I love real life comics like American Splendor and Maus. I can’t begin to list all the manga I have and what I’ve read and what is yet to be read.
I guess it’s safe to say I have a passion for just ink lines on paper.
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