Yes, that’s right. 2 unbelievable things happen. One, I actually post something *new* on a Bata Neart page (be it this time in lue of a new VDSD, see below), but also because of a shocking milestone. Mere months ago + 2o years, I drew the very first drawings of what would become Bata Neart. It would be another 10 years before I actually made it a webmanga, but it was way back in 2003 when it all started with my very first Ashling drawing, followed a few weeks later by the very first Aoife (with her original mullet…long story).

I had planned to make a video about this and I still want to, but in the meantime I hope you enjoy this full colour image of our trio.

I also owe you all news. As you might know, my webcomics went on hiatus due to me getting published. The anthology I was working with came to an end last year, but that just made me more hungry to keep getting published. Going forward there is going to be a balance between Bata Neart and my Last Day manga project. I think this needs another video to also explain, and hopefully that won’t be too far in the future! I hope!

In the meantime, t’is the season for something I somehow manage to scrape together in the last second each time. This time around it’s Áine’s turn to do a little daydreaming. Enjoy, but beware that all of the following is NSFW!!

I really appreciate all votes I get. The higher Bata Neart ranks, the better chance I have of winning new readers. So all voters: Thank you, you are honestly helping a lot.

In repayment, I am also putting up the previous Bata Neart VDSD images, vote-free.

Please click here to see my VDSD Collection on DeviantArt

Please check out all of the other awesome webcomics who have also joined in!! Beware though, many are likely to be NSFW….you know…with the nudity and all…

Valentine’s Day Sex Drive 2023

Brad Guigar – Evil Inc

Jaycee Knight – Bloomin’ Faeries

Centcomm – Datachasers

Team Lady Valiant – Lady Valiant

MonicaNG – MoonSlayer

Julie Devin – Monster Soup

Amy Letts – Epic Fail

Midnight – Danger Zone One

Lou Graziani – Cy-Boar

Darksh1ne – Monstroniverse Adventures

The Letter M – The Restless Dead

Blue Dragon – Dark Horse

Lightfoot – Pulse

Stilldown – Ariane Eldar’s Personal Place

Stilldown – Theater Of The Bloody Tongue

Sheryl Schopfer – Sharpclaw

Sheryl Schopfer – Deer Me

Arne Cooper – The Androssian Prophecy

Utzsar – Rocks

Holly Laing – Terra Incognita

The Exiern Team – Exiern Valentines Day Sex Drive 2024 Reading Order Read Me First! (This Page Safe for Work!)

The Exiern Team – Exiern (Read this page 1st after the Reading Order page! Then vote for Exiern on Top Webcomics 2nd!)

The Exiern Team – Exiern: Dark Reflections (Read this page 3rd! Then vote for Exiern on Top Webcomics 4th!)

The Exiern Team – Dark Reflections – Zen (Read this page 5th!)

The Exiern Team – Dark Reflections – Chaos (Read this page 6th!)

The Exiern Team – Exiern Extras (Read this page 7th!)

The Exiern Team – Exiern v1.0 (Read this page 8th!)

Hentai High – Hentai High

PronQuest – Pron Quest

Barry Linck – Phineus+ Magician for Hire

MiraKirall – The Ace of The Spades

sidaragasum – Locked in Imagination

David A Webcomic – David: A Webcomic

Kawaii Kissu – Kawaii Kissu

Jim and Alli Perry – My Hero

Momoru – Mildreth of the Night

Momoru – Alvery Nerveaux’s Secret Case Files

Microraptor – Cryptida

rulerbrain – Selling Smiles

Mark Egan – Bata Neart

Mark Egan – Back Office

Zach Vanzile – West Tree Academy of Heroes

Ben Bourbon – Devilbear: The Grimoires of Bearalzebub

SpaceGoblin – By The Book

Gojiramon – CKarrus

Nick Greaves – The Great Isle of Prentil

Dizzaster Juice – Offworld: The Crease

Marshall Reeves – Yesterday Bound

Sean Harrington – Spying With Lana

John Harrington – Super Rivals

Lirvilas – Grinder$

J.E. Draft – The Challenges of Zona

yellowgerbil – Zoe the Vampire

Stef Marcinkowski – Sarah Zero

Newish stuff 2023:

VDSD 2023

So yea, not much has happened this year apart from this year’s VDSD, which I’m afraid is a bit of a rush job. TL:DR, I’m still working with a print publisher, so much so that I have to be away form the webcomics more than I banked. I still have pages ready to make, just no time at all. I’m going to try to cook up an update video or something to explain, it’s all still very positive reasons why I’m away.

In the meantime, please enjoy this years VDSD, and as usual give the other awesome VDSD’ers a visit, with the links below. As usual it’s all NSFW, so beware

Valentine’s Day Sex Drive 2023

MonicaNG – MoonSlayer

Julie Devin – Monster Soup

Amy Letts – Epic Fail

Team Lady Valiant – Lady Valiant

Midnight – Danger Zone One

Centcomm – Datachasers

Lou Graziani – Cy-Boar

Darksh1ne – Monstroniverse Adventures

The Letter M – The Restless Dead

Blue Dragon – Dark Horse

Lightfoot – Pulse

Stilldown – Ariane Eldar’s Personal Place

Stilldown – Theater Of The Bloody Tongue

Sheryl Schopfer – Sharpclaw

Sheryl Schopfer – Deer Me

Arne Cooper – The Androssian Prophecy

The Exiern Team – Exiern Extras

The Exiern Team – Dark Reflections – Zen

The Exiern Team – Dark Reflections – Chaos

The Exiern Team – Exiern: Dark Reflections

The Exiern Team – Exiern

The Exiern Team – Exiern v1.0

Barry Linck – Phineus+ Magician for Hire

MiraKirall – The Ace of The Spades

sidaragasum – Locked in Imagination

Spelledeg – Now Hiring

Zaten – Club Pegasus

Jim and Alli Perry – Out of My Element

Momoru – Mildreth of the Night

Momoru – Alvery Nerveaux’s Secret Case Files

Microraptor – Cryptida

rulerbrain – Selling Smiles

Mark Egan – Bata Neart

Mark Egan – Back Office

Zach Vanzile – West Tree Academy of Heroes

Ben Bourbon – Devilbear: The Grimoires of Bearalzebub

SpaceGoblin – By The Book

Gojiramon – CKarrus

Nick Greaves – The Great Isle of Prentil

Marshall Reeves – Yesterday Bound

Sean Harrington – Spying With Lana

John Harrington – Super Rivals

Lirvilas – Grinder$

J.E. Draft – The Challenges of Zona

Jaycee Knight – Bloomin’ Faeries

yellowgerbil – Zoe the Vampire

yellowgerbil – AquariYUM

Stef Marcinkowski – Sarah Zero

Previous post:

So….*I’VE been missing*…and I owe everyone en explanation. It’s a bit of a broken record I’m afraid and is related to good things have happened. The work on Rakkan & Last Day continues and probably will for the forseable future, and I am loving it all it’s a dream come true. But it pains me to leave my webcomics idle like this, so I’m still trying to find a balance so I can keep doing them.

Working digital has helped a lot, and I’m now trying to get into the habit of alloting at least one day a week to Bata Neart work. Above is the fruits of the beginnings of what will be the next chapter “Aoife’s Shadow”. Yes, the long mooted Aoife-centric chapter is underway.

But; how to do this? Problem is, with everything happening I can’t make the pages weekly anymore. I’m thinking of trying to make them in an complete 20-page chapter and *then* release as a complete chapter. I’m not sure how everyone feels about that, and feedback as usual is gladly welcomed.

In the meantime, I’d like to declare a new round of:

Ask Aoife

Since this is an Aoife chapter coming up, it’s only fair you get another shot of asking her your questions, and thereafter I can draw up her responses. For those who are new, you can directly ask Aoife anything by commenting with @AskAoife, and then your question. The same also works with @AskAshling…but beware, Ashling gets pissy when people do that

I hope to keep this place alive while I galavant around on this semi-professional manga gig I have going in Norway at the moment and I hope everyone can still forgive me for it.

And so….with that bit of ominous gawking we put an end to this chapter…and a story thread that has been going since (checking) 2018?!!

Bloody hell…I though the “Office Party” chapter in Back Office was bad…damn. We’ll that’s it for that story thread for sure…and watch this space for info on the next chapter, a chapter I have been teasing for years and will finally start to draw:

Chapter 13: Aoife’s Shadow

Until next time…and remember @AskAoife is always active.

You know I think Fiona might be right…I think Aoife might like her….maybe a bit….

Kinda of curious how people react to this one I have been wanting to put this one out for aaaages.

Don’t worry…the scene will end nicely.

Did I ever mention before how sorry I feel when I can’t update regularly? I might have…can’t remember

Uggg….the TL:DR version is that things in my cartooning life have been pretty damn amazing lately. The publisher I work with her in Norway are just wonderful, the group I’m doing the anthology manga magazine with are just the best bunch you can imagine. Last Day is reviewing better than I expected, and there seems to be some love of it out there. I’ve been on a panel in a convention, and in a couple of weeks I might be doing a live demonstration of how I draw at a launch even. It’s truly the promised land for a hobby cartoonist like myself. The down side to this all is that my webcomics have, noticibly, taken a back seat.

I’m going to do another video about this, but the way I’m going to work in future will need me to keep working on Last Day pages year-round, but the idea of dropping my webcomics has never sat well with me. So I have worked on reorganising my week so that at least one day goes to Bata Neart. The consequence of this is that the comic won’t come out every single week, and at best I might be able to produce one chapter a year.

In the meantime, I can at least give you the last couple of pages of this Bata Neart chapter. For the next couple of Fridays expect a new Bata Neart page, until the chapter end.

If you’ve stuck with me so far, I can’t thank you enough. Your enjoyment of the comics makes it all that more fun and I’m sorry I can’t do it more often at the moment.

VDSD Update 12-Feb-2022

I’m currenty working on a new batch of Bata Neart pages, but in the meantime, ’tis the season for VDSD

I really appreciate all votes I get. The higher Bata Neart ranks, the better chance I have of winning new readers. So all voters: Thank you, you are honestly helping a lot.

In repayment, I am also putting up the previous Back Office VDSD images, vote-free.

Please click here to see my VDSD Collection on DeviantArt

Please check out all of the other awesome webcomics who have also joined in!! Beware though, many are likely to be NSFW….you know…with the nudity and all…

Valentine’s Day Sex Drive 2022

MonicaNG – MoonSlayer | Julie Devin – Monster Soup | Amy Letts – Epic Fail | Team Lady Valiant – Lady Valiant | Midnight – Danger Zone One | Holly Laing – Terra | Centcomm – Datachasers | Lou Graziani – Cy-Boar | Darksh1ne – Monstroniverse Adventures | The Letter M – The Restless Dead | Blue Dragon – Dark Horse | Lightfoot – Pulse | Stilldown – Ariane Eldar’s Personal Place | Stilldown – Theater Of The Bloody Tongue | Sheryl Schopfer – Sharpclaw | Sheryl Schopfer – Deer Me | Dizzaster Juice – WhiteOut | Dizzaster Juice – Offworld: The Crease | utzsar – Rocks | JHL Jones – Ayuri | Arne Cooper – The Androssian Prophecy | The Exiern Team – Exiern Extras | The Exiern Team – Dark Reflections – Zen | The Exiern Team – Dark Reflections – Chaos | The Exiern Team – Exiern: Dark Reflections | The Exiern Team – Exiern | Justin Pfeil – The Keep on the Borderlands | Barry Linck – Phineus: Teen Wizard | Barry Linck – Phineus+ Magician for Hire | MiraKirall – The Ace of Spades | sidaragasum – Locked in Imagination | Spelledeg – Now Hiring | Zaten – Club Pegasus | Ebenezer Splooge – Hentai Poster Company | Ebenezer Splooge – PronQuest | Ebenezer Splooge – Hentai High | Jim and Alli Perry – Out of My Element | Momoru – Mildreth of the Night | Momoru – Alvery Nerveaux’s Secret Case Files | Microraptor – Playground – A Cryptida Adventure | Microraptor – Cryptida | rulerbrain – Selling Smiles | Mark Egan – Bata Neart | Mark Egan – Back Office | Zach Vanzile – West Tree Academy of Heroes | Ben Bourbon – Devilbear: The Grimoires of Bearalzebub | SpaceGoblin – By The Book | Gojiramon – CKarrus | Andrew Hunter – Delve | Jeromatic – Bunny Wiggins | Tom Reynolds – Genderbending Sex Comics With a Proper Story and Everything | Caley Tibbittz Collopy – SwordCat Knights | Nick Greaves – The Great Isle of Prentil | Marshall Reeves – Yesterday Bound | Sean Harrington – Spying With Lana | John Harrington – Super Rivals | Lirvilas – Grinder$ | J.E. Draft – The Challenges of Zona | Jaycee Knight – Bloomin’ Faeries | yellowgerbil – Shippon Girls | yellowgerbil – Zoe the Vampire | Stef Marcinkowski – Sarah Zero
 

New Video Update 31-Dec-2021 

Previous Update

Wait? What?!! An Update! Yes…but not the usual kind. I had wanted to put an update up but I didn’t want be cheeky yet again and post yet another message or update onto the previous page…so I thought the very least I could do is put the latest news on a new page.

First off, as usual, my unending apologies about this followed by my usually excuses. This time around, it’s something a little…well extra….

I had mentioned in the summer that I had been doing another chapter of Last Day, and sure enough that did happen and got finished in time…but what happened next took me by surprise. I was about to start into my usual webcomics before Coffee Party started up, when the publisher turned around and asked me for something extra…which was this:

They wanted me to do the cover. And so, for the very first time I was making the front cover for a print publication. The work ate into my webcomic time and before I knew it I was already into the Coffee Party weeks..and then we are here…and then last week here in the Norway, the following started to appear:

It’s very *very* strange to find myself essentially having a life’s dream fulfilled in such a way and it continues now. This Saturday (13 Nov) I will actually be sitting on a panel in a comic convention here in Norway and then next week I’ll doing signing.

Thanks to all of this, I ran out of time again to make webcomics and now I’m right into producing the next chapter of Last Day for the next Rakkan.

So alas, the best I can do for now is this page. I will be doing more as soon as the Last Day chapter is done (hopefully just before Christmas, the deadline time time is New Year Eve). I’m sorry again for all of the delays and I hope you can forgive me.

If I can get time to do a video I’ll also post it here. (and maybe even the comic con stuff if I’m not too embarressing :O )

20.08.2021 – Video Update from that wierdo who makes this comic!

Farewell Howard and Jim-Bob, you two gave this comic some of the best dialogue in ages. Can’t forget such classics such as “K’tic” and of course….”ARoooo!”.

Despite going on a little roll of “normality” with weekly Bata Neart pages, summer is now upon us as well as an avalanche of projects I’ll need to work on. This includes the usual Coffee Party stuff and my commitments to Outland Publishing to make the next chapter of Last Day: Stand Tall by the end of July. I’m still trying to find a way to share that one with you folks, but right now I think Rakkan can only be shipped to addresses in Norway. Time for a new competition perhaps?

In the meantime I need to get back to an insane summer of drawing. Here’s a computer simulation of what my days will end up looking like.

I do eat a lot of toast…so this is pretty accurate.

Until next time, please have an awesome summer, and don’t hesitate to @AskAoife, or @AskAshling…they’re always here

Aw man, things a looking bad for Jim-Bob. Will he avenge the loss of Howard? Will he get away from this raging teenage witch and back to safety? Find out next week on the next page of “Jim-Bob! The Webcomic!”

On a serious note, a bit of a heads up, after next week I need to put the comic onto a summer break while I produce the next chapter of Last Day: Stand Tall. On that note, Rakkan 1 was launched today!

Not sure yet if they’ll ship outside Norway, but Last Day Chapter 1 is now on sale with the rest of Rakkan

Gah! Literally posting on the night. This isn’t an automatic update like I usually plan, this one is live, so if you have an RSS feed, you got this a couple of minutes after I typed this.

Things are a bit crazy because we’re in the launch weeks of Rakkan Volume 1, which is my first paid manga gig with a publisher. As soon as it’s up on the Outland webshop I’m going to share a link here. So if you are curious about my newest manga (and don’t mind reading in Norwegian) you can possibly grab an actual physical copy of your own. (I need to see if they’ll ship outside Norway.)

More info in coming weeks. Until then…Ashling’s doing a thing…