Evil Eye's Newest Project: A Comic Strip

Three years have passed since Evil Eye Entertainment (in it's previous incarnations) has been involved in the production of a weekly comic strip, but as of July 1st, Evil Eye will be stepping back into the arena it grew up in.

"We haven't done a weekly comic strip since the Stone Henge strip that went along with the first limited series back in 94/95," said Evil Eye Executive Kenten Bowick. "But now an opportunity has come up at my local paper where I can be read by almost four thousand housholds and buisnesses."

That paper, the Beaver Hills Outlook, has signed on Evil Eye Comics for a 8"x4" weekly strip on a trial basis. But which comic property will be featured?

"My first instinct was to do Stone Henge," said Kenten, "but I think we'd run into the same problems we did in 1995, where the strip had to function outside regular continuity to aviod getting sucked into the whole Stone Henge story, which made it pretty much irrelevant to the comic book, and frustrating to do.

"So the next possibilty is Chuck Loves the World in a comic strip format. But is the general public ready for something like that? I don't know. The whole premise of the project is that Chuck is this really nice guy who is haunted by these generally despicable characters (in a lovable kind of way). Maybe that's just too negative for the general public."

The other option was developing a new project altogether, "which is kinda hard to do, since I was only given five days to hand in the first strip. I was thinking about doing a strip with a female lead. I read a quote from Terry Moore, the creator of the comic book Strangers in Paradise, where he asked why he would ever want to do anything BUT a story with a female lead, since, being male, he's fascinated by women and has created characters he can fall in love with.

"I didn't care about any of that, but it made me realize that female leads are rare, and I guess if women aren't doing them then the job falls to a guy.

"And being a guy, that means me."

Kenten has until Monday, June 29 to hand in his first strip, so obviously, being a down-to-the-last-second kind-of-guy, he won't decide for sure until Sunday night.

"Whatever it turns out to be, I'll be posting it every week, so Evil Eye will now have a weekly strip on the net."

And if the strip isn't renewed after its trial period?

"I don't know. Maybe I'll retire.

"From comic STRIPS, that is."