When do you update this thing?

TWIDI’s schedule is what I’d call “erratic”: it changes according to my personal and professional schedule. Any hiatuses are due to workload (either on my graphic novels or non-TWIDI webcomics), rather than a loss of interest.

The comic usually updates in batches.

Check the front page announcements for the update schedule at the moment.

How do you read this comic?

This is an anthology series with a tight focus on a set of characters (see Cast), explored via 3 layers: Detective Grimsley’s individual cases, each character’s backstory/slice-of-life interactions, or/and a central slow-burn plot.

The archives are organised hierarchically, from Volume -> Chapter -> Chaplettes.

Think of it as a TV show, with seasons, B-plots and an ensemble cast. Or like a long-running manga.

How many volumes will there be?

4, containing approx. 100 stories each of varying length. We are at Volume I currently.

>What is the difference between Chapters and Chaplettes?

Chapters contain major plot points or rather big cases, and have more or less over 60 pages.

Chaplettes are (very) short stories* squashed in between Chapters, reserved for character development and world-building and as an outlet for experimenting. It’s not necessary to read ALL of the Chaplettes, but it’s always important for insight and a better understanding when a Chapter happens.

*the backstory chaplettes are pretty big.

What art software/program(s) do you use?

On the laptop: Photoshop CS6. Kyle Webster brushes (Mr Natural Brush mainly).
On the iPad: Procreate. 6B Pencil Brush.

How is this comic done?

The process changes for each Chapter/chaplette. I purposely designed this webcomic to allow me unlimited creative freedom on how I want to approach a story, so one chaplette can be entirely drawn in pencil, and the other drawn digitally, and the next can be something else entirely. The only things that are constant are that I write gibberish on the computer, and do thumbnails on paper.

For my default comics-making process, I document it on my website and my blog.

What is the genre of this comic?

I’ve no idea actually because the genres covered by TWiDI are extremely broad. It’s not strictly horror, mystery and fantasy. The closest I can get is a hybrid between occult detective fiction, gothic satire, cozy whimsy, urban fantasy and historical fiction.

How old is this thing?

I started it around March 31st, 2010 and launched it on March 30-31st 2013.

How old are you?

I’ve the appearance of a millennial.

What is Grimsley?

Grimsley is a Jersey Devil, with the skull and appearance of a donkey. He originated from a brood that was displaced from America some decades before his birth.

 

Where can I get a copy of TWIDI?

With one exception, there will almost never be a print edition of TWIDI. TWIDI is a highly experimental, sprawling digital art project; its messiness and its length make it hard to print TWIDI in its entirety. (Regardless, let me know if there’s a publisher who wants to support my 2000+ pages madperson epic)

The one exception is The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya.

Occasionally you may see zines or one-offs of individual Chapter/chaplettes that I’d self-publish and sell at festivals. Don’t hold your breath.

Alternatively, eBooks for select individual stories are available via my online store. Let me know if you want a chaplette up that isn’t in the store yet! (Note: given the completion of Season 1, I will do a collection soon).

Why and how is TWIDI like this?

Initially when I started TWIDI I had fantasies of it becoming a popular enough webcomic to turn commercial, with collected volumes printed and sold in bookstores. As I kept working on my craft and grew as a cartoonist and a person, I realised that the fantasy wasn’t going to happen, for a lot of reasons both pragmatic and personal. I wasn’t aware at the time that I had “doomed” TWIDI by turning it into my idiosyncratic self-indulgent sandbox where I learned how to make comics through experimentation. If you read from the first ever page you can see how my style began from a naive, uninformed, aspirational place. I don’t mean this negatively – just that nowadays I know how to format artwork for print and draw comics to a professional standard, due to experience I could only get from actually working in the publishing industry. Still though, I dont regret how TWIDI started.

After The Carpet Merchant became this big thing on its own and ended up accomplishing my dreams/kickstarting my publishing career, I’m now leaning into TWIDI as a “doomed” passion project. It’s only for me and solely an expression of my whims and interests, beholden to no one else. It’s retired from the cares and burdens of the market, printing, commercialism, age categories, format whatever. TWIDI is a very-me representation of who I was, am and will be. That’s the modus operandi here.

I also have my own thoughts over the increasing corporatisation of webcomics (and the internet as a whole) since I got into the scene in 2012-2013, which additionally informs my insistence on protecting TWIDI as my creative outlet.

Last updated: 2026