I'm Spole, I'm nearly 30 and live somewhere in the UK. I like drawing things and sticking them on the fridge, and have a background and experience in Media Production and I.T. I've put this website together to try and learn web design and then have a place to put my work that isn't socials.
I think I first started reading comics with the Beano as a barely-sentient british child, then a little later I discovered the Team Fortress comics which to this day i think are still amazing, and now begrudgingly glad after 8 years when Valve remembered to actually end it. From that point i'd just go online to read whatever i thought looked appealing, yet never really gravitated towards Marvel/DC comics or even Manga to be honest, save for a few J-horrors.
'Milk and Cheese' and 'The Eltingville Club' by Evan Dorkin are pretty great, and then discovering 'The Maxx', 'Tank Girl' and eventually 'I Hate Fairyland' to name a few have probably had the biggest impact on the way I draw things. Webcomics to me is still kind of new even though it ultimately peaked when Penny Arcade made a joke about wolves with phallic protrusions or just being bald and piglike or something.
Anyway, I think everyone with some kind of idea or project should give web design a go at some point because modern day social media websites are crap now and just serve to track you and sell you things you don't need. Make a website! It's cool! You can make it look how you want. I missed out on Myspace but i bet it was great.
The tools out there these days are really good and anyone with a domain can get a project going on Neocities or something like that with pretty much no effort.
Shoutout to Scott Andrew as well because although i've heavily modified mine by now, this site is all built off the foundation his template laid out.
At the end of the day you don't have to continue to shackle yourself to algorithmic whims and feed your brain endless amounts of AI-generated sludge. Instead, plug yourself in to Spoleworld and prepare to have your digital conciousness truly rattled and your cyber-bones pulverised into radioactive dust. The stories will be major!
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