A huge thanks for someone who has added a link to SpaceBoiz on Belfry comics list He/she made a comment that I seem more interested in drama than sex. Well that is not quite like that. Sex is Drama, you see.

Drama is about conflict. Most common ways of creating dramatic tension are sex and violence. When I was planning the script for SpaceBoiz I thought that having a group of gay pirates on a ship I need to have some sexual tension between them. Not just happy couples but some jealousy as well. I also had a notion of using sex as a way of releasing dramatic situations and carrying on the story.

My vacation is starting in couple of weeks and I honestly feel like a break from drawing comics. Since I haven’t managed to create enough of a buffer to get past that I have decided to use a short story I have ready as filler for this summer. Last weeks page feels like a nice cliff-hanger to leave SpaceBoiz for a while.

I came up with the story idea while reading old Ed Jenkins stories by erle Stanley Gardner last summer. The character of Ernest Blame a.k.a. The Fairy is a gay version of many heroes like Ed Jenkins or Simon Templar.

I decided to challenge myself to tell the story in just eight pages. My inspiration for that were Spirit stories by Will Eisner, but I didn’t quite manage with six  pages. Finally the story has been lying on my hard drive as line art when I couldn’t decide if I should do it in colour or greyscale. But for me the 1930′s is black and white movies so that sealed that.