I was glancing through Christopher Webster’s “Malus” yesterday, and as always I was struck by the frenetic storytelling and linework. Another thing about Webster’s work is the way he uses almost iconographic symbols,  like a single cartoon star, as a shorthand to decompress the narrative. That gave me an idea for the short comic that follows, called “The End”:

It’s all drawn directly with felt tip pen in my sketchbook. No pencil roughs, no whiteouts or digital edits. Apologies for shaky lines and dodgy execution, it was a matter of  getting the thing down before the idea vapourised.

Basically, I wanted to tell a story of the world coming to an end in as few beats as possible, while maintaining a double narrative. Let me know in the comments if it’s too dense