Alex Assan
@alexassan
Artist of the webcomic Shaderunners.com and the graphic novel Sunhead ☀️ Second GN with HarperAlley to be announced soon! He/him. Berlin-based. Represented by Britt Siess. Portfolio: AlexAssan.com
Tonight on Shaderunners: Returning to the Glass Dial... 🍸 💚 Webtoon: buff.ly/97QDtve 💛 Tapas: buff.ly/QPikUvA
Tonight on Shaderunners: Still thinking of green... 🍸 💚 Webtoon: buff.ly/97QDtve 💛 Tapas: buff.ly/QPikUvA
Tonight on Shaderunners: Chapter 2 begins with a (green) splash! 🍸 💚 Webtoon: buff.ly/97QDtve 💛 Tapas: buff.ly/QPikUvA
Tonight on Shaderunners: Domigo sees something he's never seen before 🍸 💚 Webtoon: buff.ly/97QDtve 💛 Tapas: buff.ly/QPikUvA
2006 | 2016 | 2026 Keep at it I guess! Also yes this is indeed gay Cardcaptor Sakura fanart because I've always been really really cool.
Heads up for authors and comic artists that email scams have been getting a LOT more sophisticated thanks to AI. This email I just got includes actual details about my book, even though there are still some obvious AI tells in my opinion (the subject & the last paragraph especially stand out). 1/2
Made new profile pics for myself and @lindarrow.bsky.social ! My struggle is always that they have to match but I want to draw myself as a weird little guy and Lin as the most beautiful woman in the world...
Been looking at too much German expressionist art lately.... #InterviewWithTheVampire #iwtv
Today marks mine and @lindarrow.bsky.social 's 16th anniversary as friends & creative soulmates! I lucked out with the best possible collaborator. I can't even imagine where I would be today without Lin's friendship & artistic influence. Lin, I love you and I hope we make comics together forever 🩷
Tonight on Shaderunners: The end of chapter 3. Don't forget to click 'previous' for the last page! | Read for free at Shaderunners.com 🍸💚
Dear @annerice.amc.com and @iwtvwriters.bsky.social please hire me to draw an IWTV graphic novel, I have the credentials and I think it would make my 14-year-old self reach nirvana... also I really enjoyed drawing that blond man freaking out... #IWTV#InterviewWithTheVampire
In all honesty I stopped watching Supernatural about halfway through, but it didn't stop me from keeping up with what those crusty ass men were up to for years afterwards. Anyway I still like this comic & think they should have kissed [2/2]
Another time I went a little nuts was at the height of COVID-19 when I caught the Destiel subvariant... I refuse to feel shame [1/2]
So basically, if you like mystery, romance, extremely flawed characters, heists, leftist infighting and being gay... this might just be the comic for you. Reposts are very much appreciated! Shaderunners.com 💚✨
The comic is split into three acts, with Act III being halfway finished! So this is a good time to hop on board. Early pages are a bit on the rough side but the quality of the art increases dramatically as you go along.. I pretty much learned how to draw through making this comic.
Ivo Keys and Satinder Hali don’t care who’s in charge as long as they get what they want; Ivo is a bigender opera singer desperately chasing success, Satinder is a navy officer mostly looking for a good time. Will they ever stop flirting? It's unlikely.
The group's leader is Ezra, a pretentious mess with a big vocabulary and a kind heart. His confidant and arguably the secret REAL leader of the group is Pamina, a puppeteer and all-around intense presence. Easton is the two’s begrudging second-in-command. He and Ezra have a weird thing going on.
The story follows Domigo Valdes – a young, wide-eyed immigrant with an overactive heart who moves to Ironwell City and falls in with ✨ the Shaderunners ✨ - a group of mysterious bootleggers who steal colour from the rich in the hopes of opening a speakeasy.
Shaderunners is written by the incomparable Lin Darrow, drawn by yours truly and published online for free. It’s been running for almost ten years with two updates per week, and it has an ensemble cast!
A “prohibition of colour” means that in-universe, the world is literally black-and-white. That is, until the main character sees colour for the first time. The comic is usually in grayscale, but sometimes…
This is a thread all about mine and @lindarrow.bsky.social's queer noir webcomic Shaderunners.com, a historical fantasy comic where the alcohol prohibition in the 1920s is instead a prohibition of COLOUR 🍸💚 The archive is big, it’s free to read, and the story is in its final act!
Tonight on Shaderunners: Back to the Shadery. | Read for free at Shaderunners.com 🍸💚