#ASequentialArt

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What are the main influences that you drew upon for your comics?

So the biggest influence would have to be ASequentialArt. The guy who makes it is the artist of Saffron and Sage and thus his influence is rather more direct; any kind of meta-fuckery in Legend of the Hare or Saffron and Sage is either Carlos' idea or something I thought he'd like. The big parallax finale of Legend of the Hare was his idea, and one of the low-key reasons I'm dragging my feat uploading that comic is that I don't want to have to figure out how to set it up again!

Kill 6 Billion Demons inspired the idea of having "Lore" under the Legend of the Hare pages, though that idea crashed because no one cares about my lore.

Gunnerkrigg Court inspired the idea of making Saffron and Sage episodic, an idea I actually regret a little, which is an essay I've been meaning to write.

It's a small thing, but Homestuck inspired my character writing just a little by making me think of "rules", like how every sentence out of Liri's mouth ought to deserve an exclamation mark or how Saffron often talks in sentence fragments because she's a busy woman and doesn't have time for superfluous words.

Prequel Adventure, Narbonic, and Latchkey Kingdom are all comics I like that have similar vibes to mine in one way or another, but the comic whose writing feels closest to my own might actually be Cassiopeia Quinn. If you take Cassiopeia Quinn and you mix in a bit of Katia Managan you get something not entirely dissimilar to Liri Bloom.

Final Fantasy XIV (specifically Shadowbringers and Endwalker) isn't really an influence, but it is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. Those expansions are very thematically dense in a way that both inspires me to try better and makes me want to give up and quit. That's sort of tied in to why I regret the way I wrote Saffron and Sage episodically, and perhaps one day I'll write that essay. I'm pretty consistently on the precipice of quitting Saffron to try to start a new comic; I'm a notorious dilletante.

But if you look at how horny the characters in my comics tend to be when the comic itself dares never show a boob, you can probably see the deepest influence of all, the one I dare not speak even to myself, which is all the trashy quasihorny shounen manga I read in high school, and the early webcomics like The Wotch or Misfile that had a bit of that energy that stuck to me indelibly no matter how much I try to pretend otherwise.

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Another experiment: I had an the idea of try to tell a story using Instagram. You can check a first try here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Blb4_78g5vt/?taken-by=asequentialart

http://www.asequentialart.com 

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Today on Saffron and Sage: Yesterday on Saffron and Sage! That’s right, it’s a flashback! 

It’s also the first page in the comic with no characters in it. Wow, what a milestone!

Wait, is this the same huge house on a hill from Legend of the Hare: The Ghost of Dracula, coming soon as part of Threads: Volume 3 from SpiderForest? Quite possibly! Speaking of SpiderForest, we've got a heapin' helpin' of new members! Here are a few you can you out now!

A story about witchcraft, ghosts, responsibilities and the gay experience.

Slice-of-life adventures from a Fantasy world.

A fantasy tale following a ragtag troupe of bards out to solve a murder mystery!

A child foretold to be a fearsome god killer embarks on a desperate quest to change fate.

Hey wait, that art style of that second one kind of familiar, doesn't it? That's because it's asequentialart, a comic made by our own Carlos Ruiz, current artist of Saffron and Sage and one-time artist of Legend of the Hare! All four comics here are good, and there are more good comics to come, but I might be a tinge biased towards that one!

Also, all the images below the comic on my site aren’t loading! That sure boosts site speed, but seems sub-optimal, so I’ll have to work on that! Yikes! 

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Tonight on Saffron and Sage, Liri has some thoughts she’d like to share.

Read the rest at SaffronComic.com!

See pages early at my patreon! 

Or give me a vote over at TopWebComics! 

Or go read Carlos’ other comic! 

Or go look at butts on the internet, I’m not your dad do what you want

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Tonight, on Saffron and Sage: Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s an evil potion! Hopefully that first panel reads clearly as what’s supposed to be happening!

Support the comic on Patreon here! We have a new Year of the Rat-themed pinup of Liri, drawn by Sabu, for $5 patrons, and you can get early comics of Saffron and Sage and Legend of the Hare!

Or vote for us on TopWebcomic.com for some nice art of Saffron by Sabu!

Read Carlos’s other comic, asequentialart, here!

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Today on Saffron and Sage: Soccer! Or, as the French call it, Le Soquer

These kids are Nizka, Ashley, Nisa, and Maks from Cassiopeia Quinn! Normally, they’re off in the spacey future, but now they’re down in a fantasy kingdom dressed like peasants. Maybe it’s one of those Star Ocean dealies where you think you’re getting a sci-fi space adventure and then you crash on a primitive planet that looks like a fantasy RPG and you just stay there forever and young Daniel gets mad. They didn’t have enough “medieval peasant” outfits to go around, though, so Ashley is wearing a repurposed Kermit the Frog Halloween costume. At least they’re getting ice cream out of the deal, with the help of a little strategic guilting. Speaking of strategic guilting, go check out Cassiopeia Quinn! Gunwild and Psu are officially licensed Friends Of Saffron, you can trust them to provide you with a quality comic experience!

Support the comic on Patreon here!

Or vote for us on TopWebcomic.com for some nice art of Saffron by Sabu!

Read Carlos’s other comic, asequentialart, here! 

Read Cassiopeia Quinn here!

And have a nice day, wherever you like!