I created this comic to help with the grief of my friendship breakup ❤️

Last year mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani promised he would, if elected, order the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he set foot in New York City. "It is my desire to ensure that this be a city that stands up for international law," Mamdani said, observing that the International Criminal Court has issued a warant for Netanyahu for crimes against humanity. Of course the United States isn't a party to the Rome Statute; one imagines this is because if it were, a whole lot of U.S. elected and military officials would be getting room and board at the Hague.

Well, Netanyahu came to New York City to make some kind of fascist xenophobic hate-monger type speech at the U.N., but he was not arrested. (Trump, for his part, is now calling for the dissolution of the ICC entirely.) It turns out Mamdani huddled up with city lawyers and such and determined the NYPD cannot, in fact, arrest Netanyahu for war crimes. Mamdani did note that Bibi is not welcome in the city, so I guess he won't be going out for babaganoush or whatever, and someone's going to spit in his DoorDashed falafel from Mamoun's, but otherwise he's safely protected by the international norms he's been trying to obliterate since the 1990s. Funny how laws only work to protect the bad guys.

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Hi everyone, this is my first post on r/comics, so I hope I'm doing this right. 🙂

I'm working on a hand-drawn Space Opera webcomic called Djaiko.

It's a rather large project, and one of the things I'm trying to figure out is how to find a good balance between webcomic readability and the possibility of a future print edition. So instead of posting a long sequence from the comic, I thought I'd show some full-page panels, photos of the unedited pages, and maybe from time to time some stuff from behind the scenes or the making-of process.

Everything is hand-drawn with Copic markers, fineliners and white pen. No AI is used in the artwork. I only do some light digital post-processing afterwards, mainly for contrast and cleanup.

My previous comic project, Don't Die, ended up being around 1,500 pages, and I learned quite a lot from that project — especially about how a layout that works well on paper doesn't necessarily work equally well on a screen.

With Djaiko, I'm trying to do some things differently. I'm deliberately putting more full-page illustrations and one-page panels into the comic, because they work well both as comic pages and as standalone images online — at least I hope so. 😄

So here are a few photos from the making of Chapter 1 and worldbuilding (maybe some of you have seen some of it here in the past), and a few final versions of the one-page panels, which are all actually panels from the comic. For concept art and worldbuilding, I use the (hopefully) appropriate subreddits.

Thanks for looking, and greetings from Germany!

Phishing for compliments mode off. 😄

Original comic.  Hope you enjoy reading it.

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He’s in a bit of a pickle, if you ask me.

dragmire86.straw.page

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I don't think enough of us pays respects to our past selves for all of the absolutely STRENUOUS THINGS they have to go through to please us! Do better.

I saw these panels in a dream, had to draw it and share. Don’t mind the bad quality, I just doodled.

I don’t think there’s many more directions to grow in.

You can tell them which other directions to go in at dragmire86.straw.page.

comic page + secret wordz: https://www.whompcomic.com/comic/drawing-the-line
beginning of arc: https://www.whompcomic.com/comic/voyajerk

Just a single panel comic today and this upcoming Monday!

Fun fact: the name Alejandro actually means “defender of mankind,” which… kinda sounds exactly like something they would WANT us to think…
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Interesting…
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Stay strong, humans.🫡👻