Journal of Chuck

New full-color Pewfell Graphic Novels are here!

2009-05-27T18:37:41Z

Announcing the release of two new full-color Pewfell graphic novels -- order your copy today!:

Pewfell in: Welcome to Spirekassle
112 Pages | Full Color 6"x10" Graphic Novel
$19.95
Meet Pewfell, a slacker wizard who lives in the fabulous city of Spirekassle. He's married to Tina the warrior princess and works a day job in the local pharmacy. When Tina has to take a month off due to a shortage of orc settlements to pillage, Pewfell must find other ways to supplement his income...

This revised and greatly expanded edition presents the early adventures of Pewfell they way they were meant to be seen.

http://store.comixpress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1378

Pewfell in: For the Love of Hornbag
268 Pages | Full Color 6"x10" Graphic Novel
$34.99
He can't get any respect as a wizard, but all Pewfell really wants is a nice quite life of domestic bliss. Destiny, however, has other plans. Join Pewfell as he battles demons, demi-gods and demented clerics in an epic quest to save the entire world...

Formerly published in 2 black & white volumes by Wingnut Games, these strips are now presented in a single, full-color, 268 page edition. Includes 9 previously unpublished, brand-new full-color chapter cover images.

http://store.comixpress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1379

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REVIEWS:

Pewfell is kick ass, with extra kick left over in case more ass shows up.
Jerry Holkins, Penny Arcade

Solid laughs, funny characters, and ludicrous plot points from start to finish.
Marc Mason, ComicsWaitingRoom.com

An online comic masterpiece.
Carson Fire, ElfLife

Creative, outrageous, and original this is an excellent fantasy comic!
Alden Scott Crow, Zine World

With Pewfell, Chuck Whelon has established himself as the Terry Pratchett of webcomics.
Kevin Moore

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chuckwheel @ 2008-10-31T10:42:00

2008-10-31T17:48:48Z

New Pewfell chapter begins this week

chuckwheel @ 2008-10-31T09:53:00

2008-10-31T17:00:55Z

The next six strips form a short story that round off this introductory collection of Pewfell strips. The last panel is newly re-drawn for this revised edition. There are a total of 4 books to the new Volume 1 and you can see the next one right here, starting next week.

chuckwheel @ 2008-10-23T09:15:00

2008-10-23T16:33:36Z

Once again, no good deed goes unpunished.

Adam Prosser wrote as fake a Cockney accent for the orphan boy as anything Disney ever produced, Yet somehow it seemed perfectly fitting.

chuckwheel @ 2008-10-21T10:34:00

2008-10-21T17:40:51Z

More on why dorky wizards manage to hook up with hot warrior babes. Also we learn a little about the Jackal's love life.

chuckwheel @ 2008-10-18T09:32:00

2008-10-18T16:42:51Z

Pewfell and Pedwyn are wandering the wilderness.

chuckwheel @ 2008-10-16T11:06:00

2008-10-16T18:12:37Z

Here I start to address the issue of hot warrior princesses always being married to nerdy wizards in fantasy comic strips.

chuckwheel @ 2008-10-15T11:28:00

2008-10-15T18:37:55Z

Cuthpert is Cuthpert Codpeace, Spirekassle's most prominent citizen. More about him in Volume 1 Book 3

Pewfell: Live Online Chat this Saturday Afternoon.

2008-10-15T17:11:43Z

This weekend I'm participating in a Live Online chat hosted by RPGLife.com

I'll be discussing Pewfell, answering questions on the characters and world, how I make the strip and fantasy webcomics in general.

The event will take place in RPGLife's Live Chat Tavern, this Saturday, October 18th from 4pm until 6pm Pacific Standard Time (That's 7-9 pm Eastern, 12-2 am in the UK).

You might need to register for a free RPGLife account to get in, but otherwise simply point your browser to:

http://www.rpglife.com/phpBB3/chat

If you can, please do come by and participate as i've never done one of these before and it would be great to see some of you there.

Thanks

Chuck

chuckwheel @ 2008-10-14T10:18:00

2008-10-14T17:41:34Z

Pedwyn the Jackal is also based on someone from the village where I lived in England, as is his frequent companion Fug the Barbarian. I used to wonder if it was OK to be ripping off my friends' likenesses, but I found out that everyone in E.C. Segar's 'Popeye' was based on people he knew from his home town, so if it's good enough for the maestro, it's good enough for me.

chuckwheel @ 2008-10-10T09:48:00

2008-10-10T17:16:19Z

chuckwheel @ 2008-10-09T09:25:00

2008-10-09T16:38:00Z

I figured it was time to have Tina get into some action, and zombies are always fun to draw. I love Zombies... as you will know out if you have read Pewfell Volume 4.

Some people have commented that their blood is too red for zombies. Perhaps I should have gone all Frank Miller and done it black, what do you think?

chuckwheel @ 2008-10-07T21:42:00

2008-10-08T04:46:51Z

One of the themes that runs through Pewfell is that no good deed will go unpunished. Particularly if Bish is involved.

chuckwheel @ 2008-10-06T21:07:00

2008-10-07T04:16:42Z

I have no real explanation for this strip. I can tell you that I don't like custard, so perhaps this is about that.

chuckwheel @ 2008-10-03T09:30:00

2008-10-03T16:48:26Z

I drew many of the next few strips when Pewfell first ran as daily strip on the web way way back in the halcyon days of webcomics (2002). This one is kind of simple and not all that well drawn, but I still like it in a goofy kind of way.

Ah Bish, ya gotta love him, always up to some crackpot activity or another. He's my favorite character to write, as he pretty much always seems to just write himself. He's also based on a friend of mine from the same village in England, Ol West, who later went on to become brand manager for Budweiser in the UK. Again, it's more just the look of him, rather than anything to do with his personality, although Ol does have something of Bish's noble spirit about him. At the end of the day, I have found that all the characters in my comic, though frequently based on other people at the outset, end up really just being different aspects of my own personality. Make of that what you will...

By the way, bonus points if you spotted that the fourth panel of this strip is after Rogier van der Weyden's "St. George and the Dragon" c. 1432 in The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. I always though those dragons in the classical St. George paintings were rather too puny, and flet that they must have larger relatives lurking around somewhere.

chuckwheel @ 2008-10-01T18:58:00

2008-10-02T02:08:20Z

Did I mention that Tina the Warrior Princess is based on my wife Tina? I used to think it was a bit strange that I was writing a comic strip about my wife being married to someone who looks like my friend, but now that Adam Prosser does all the writing I hardly lie awake worrying about it at all anymore.

chuckwheel @ 2008-09-30T22:01:00

2008-10-01T05:20:05Z

Another Pewfell strip from the way-way back machine. It's kind of weird running these old ones, when my style and sense of what makes a good strip have evolved so much over the years. Still, I think they are necessary to properly introduce the characters, and they hold up well enough in their own right. They are the first little shoots that the later strip developed out of and they are best read in that context.

Daily Pewfell

2008-09-29T16:31:24Z

Another entry in the series of verrry early Pewfelll Strips, appearing on the web for the very first time. Originally drawn in 1995.

This strip and the next one were actually written for me by my friend Guy Parker. Guy is now 'Director of Copy Advice' at the Advertising Standards Authority in London. So if you don't like his copy, you know where to send the advice.

Guy actually came up with the name Pewfell Porfingles for a wizard character he played in a D&D game we played together, so I've really been ripping him off all these years. He keeps threatening to come after me for royalties, but I hope he's not counting on that for his retirement fund!

chuckwheel @ 2008-09-27T11:07:00

2008-09-27T18:10:58Z

In this strip I thought I'd try to address why Bish speaks the way he does. The real reason is because I think it's fun to write that way, although it does take up a lot of space and I can't make every speech balloon this big.

In case you were wondering I was born and raised in Basingstoke, England and speak with a very English accent. Pewfell speaks with what I usually call a mid-Atlantic sort of accent. Now I think about it, I guess that might mean he's Canadian?! My co-writer Adam Prosser is, in fact, Canadian so I guess that proves it. I never thought about that before. I've never been to Canada, perhaps now I should.

chuckwheel @ 2008-09-25T21:05:00

2008-09-26T04:09:23Z

I would like to point out that this is only a semi-autobiographical comic strip. As a self-employed artist I make a somewhat better living than Pewfell does -- mostly because I'm not quite as lazy as he is (though I would like to be!). My wife is in fact called Tina -- she's not a warrior princess, but she is a Viking and has been known to wear a horned helmet on occasion (though never to work).

chuckwheel @ 2008-09-24T19:46:00

2008-09-25T02:52:13Z

Tina the warrior princess makes her way home from work. I'm not sure where her wyvern is; I guess it must be in for a service.

chuckwheel @ 2008-09-23T17:54:00

2008-09-24T00:57:25Z

I don't know about this one, but it's the first strip where Bish appears, so I thought it better be in there. These were done somewhere around 1995, but mostly only colored just recently

Meet Pewfell, just your ordinary, everyday wizard.

2008-09-23T03:45:39Z

These next 8 strips are really the first Pewfell strips I ever drew. Now we get to see a little of what Pewfell does for money.

chuckwheel @ 2008-09-19T11:20:00

2008-09-19T18:31:16Z

Pewfell the wizard and his wife Tina the Warrior Princess have had their Satyrday morning lie-in disturbed by a string of unwanted intrusions, culminating in the destruction of their bed by a libidinous demon.

This cross-section of Pewfell house was a lot of fun to do. Someone in Eastern Europe once called me up to ask if he could build a life-sized version of the house, based on the plans I have posted here:
http://www.pewfell.com/world/Pewfells_House/House_Plans.html
I don't know if he ever did or not...

Pewfell is being assaulted by his bedspread.

2008-09-18T18:22:10Z

Well, they say that there’s no rest for the wicked, but there’s no rest for Pewfell either. Mostly all he ever wants to do is have a nice relaxing sleep.