Did you do the larp, or the table game?

I hope I'm not out of line in mentioning a project (and character from it) of this vintage, but that fellow really reminds me of the wolf-person form of Tristan from 'The Sinner Dragon', the comic in which I first was exposed to your work. I wish I'd followed it further than I had; I can only find what looks like your old Livejournal page (with the last post, well, about as old as this post here, 14 years old and 2005), with almost every reference link leading to a potential-scam placeholder webpage or simply a 404 error. I didn't want to post until I'd looked through your Gallery here to see if I could find anything at all related to TSD, but this was about as close as I'd found (and probably only because of its similar and considerable vintage in post to The Sinner Dragon, at least as far as I can remember).

I know that major projects I've undertaken, if I've had to leave them be because of something hurtful happening to me associated with them, are difficult to bring up for me, or if someone asks for me to handle the elicited memories. I won't ask you any further than that, if that might be why (or simply that TSD was a much earlier generation of work for you, Sans-Souci, that you've since surpassed and left be), but I wanted to tell you at least this once how much I loved that comic you wrote and drew, and how much of a big and deep inspiration it was to the budding storyteller and artist I was fifteen years ago or more.

Have yourself an excellent one, ami!

-2Paw.

Hello! Oh dear, I'm very happy and even proud if I have inspired you, and many many thanks for letting me know! I grew out of tsd comics, because of.. I don't know, I've simply taken other paths I guess. I'm still fond of the characters and actually, once in a while I still dream of them, but I haven't had the occasion to put them back to life.
The comics are still on my server, but the interface of the site crashed like 2vyears ago and still haven't found the time and will to install a new one. I will do it, I can note you when I'll do it if you want, actually another person asked me about the archives and I'll be glad to let you know.
And thanks again!
Sans

Ms. Souci, it is a thorough and immense pleasure to make your acquaintance! The Sinner Dragon was one of my biggest influences when you were writing and drawing your webcomic fifteen years ago or so, regarding my building up my practice and skill at making pencilled and inked sequential graphic-novel artwork with an entirely convincing narrative, complete with suspension of disbelief. And Tristan was a werewolf after my own heart IC, with a big heart as well as a big wolf inside of him, and whose moral compass kept him from being a monster of a human or a monster of a werewolf, even reluctantly so. He knew what he was and understood himself, and because of that he did not use his abilities as a weapon- something that was a rarity in the supernaturally-rich alternate Milan and Italy of his parallel Middle Ages and early 1600s and 1700s.

I use that broad range to posit description, as I don't think you ever specified when precisely TSD took place by year (I could easily be wrong; I vaguely remember, distant memories of written dates, but I have very little to go by; I know I have some pages of your work backed up in my DVD-R data library, but I'd have to do quite a bit of looking to find those needles in the haystack they'd be in), but basic technologies and the period's modern dress/clothing suggested to me the transitional period between the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the 17th Century, well after Queen Elizabeth I's time but still a while to go before the French Revolution (The Terror, something that would've been hard on the supernaturals of France in that past, not just the Domestique 'normals' and mortals). I would've loved to see what you might do with Count Cagliostro (or even Donatien Alphonse François, the Marquis de Sade) and his involvement with mages or the supernatural subculture, if your story had spanned that far! :)

My favourite joke is partly inspired by the Mad Mage Of The White Powder (who snitched some elfdragon blood to make a summoning candle, and summoned the Iron Djinn for some wonderful wishes) and one of your chosen lines for him: "Believe me: if you've never been the sacrificial victim of a cocaine-addicted Mad Mage, you've never had a bad day!" Hee! 'Momo! Green Fucking Ass!' ^_^ That little booger and his Mage Master Booger was so full of the funnies. And that was one part of what I loved about The Sinner Dragon: I could have easily been reading a print comic book (something else I loved in those days) on my old 1280x1024 ViewSonic CRT monitor and would've felt as enthralled by the story. I haven't seen most of the pages I've spoken of (and written lines quoted directly above) in more than a decade, but they're still clear and fresh in my mind, such is their clarity in my memory and relevance to the direction of my own work.

I wish I'd've gathered up the nerve to tell you this a long time ago, but my nerve about this sort of thing (at least not until recently) has rarely been good or founded in much personal confidence in my ability not to break down in nervousness or tangential go into directionless fan-goobing. But I'm glad I told you now, and thanked you now in turn! I would love to know when and if you might put together an archive of your original run of The Sinner Dragon, as I would absolutely love to read and digest your work front to back, if I might be invited and welcomed to do so. Again, it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance here in person, Gilda, and thank you again for posting me back!

-2Paw.