Korgar is a character that has been circulated amongst my friends for several years now. The story of his creation is a bit of an odd one, and I’ll save it for another time… but long story short, he’s a huge beast of a half-blood demon orc who speaks in third person and has had many odd jobs in the past, including grocery store owner, pop singer, and now — starting in this comic — Peter’s math teacher.

Speaking of this comic, I’m sure a lot of you are a little thrown off by the sudden change in format. This is me toying with the idea of moving Peter & Company to a larger full-page scale. There are a few reasons behind this, mostly being my observation of the current status/decline of newspaper strips compared to their online competition… that and the fact that after so many years of working in the daily strip format, I’m starting to feel too confined to the four-panel, gag-a-day structure. I want to break out and have more room to fit some actual plot into the comic (and honestly, forcing myself to work in such a tight format is one of the main reasons I contribute to my lack of being able to maintain a regular update schedule; I would feel drained when I couldn’t come up with a punchline for every single strip, especially if I didn’t feel one was needed at that point in the story).

Now, I’m not necessarily giving up on syndication — if a syndicate approached me with a contract for the strip, I would definitely still be interested — but for the purposes of online publishing, I feel this could be the better choice.

What I’d like to request from everyone is some feedback on which version of Peter & Company you prefer. Do you think P&C would work better in this new, larger format, with room for more panels and action for each update, or did you enjoy it more as a classic newspaper-style strip? Keep in mind it’s always possible for me to switch back and forth between the two styles — do a small strip one update, a larger full page the next — but I just wanted to know what my readers think of the potential in this change. Also, how interested would you be in purchasing a “Peter & Company Collection” book, with the mixture of both strips and comic pages like the one above?

Official site: http://www.PeterandCompany.com