It was a boring high school literature class when the whole comic thing began. I was doodling on a paper. My best high school friends, Kati, Roxy and Evi – at the edge of fatal boredom – found this more interesting than early Hungarian poems of Turkish invasion…
This was my first drawing, and as you can see, I didn’t aim high artistic standards. These first comics were more about us, our teachers, the guys we liked and the ridiculous horror movies we watched. And the text… well, please don’t try to translate them to English, except if you want to learn some Hungarian swearwords. We developed a whole system around these comics. I drew the characters, Kati colored them, Roxy wrote the text. Evi enjoyed the result and invited us to her family’s weekend house where we had fun, and new content to draw, color and write.
Then during the university years I had less time to draw. I replaced it with sketching of industrial products, CAD and 3D designing. But I still loved the characters, the funny, sometimes ironic style that these comics presented. So when I met a very special guy at the end of my BSc years, I decided to draw him a short comic book. I didn’t know, but he was a comic fanatic as a kid. He brought back my almost forgotten enthusiasm for drawing and Kira & Gary were born. Since then, we get married and moved to Montreal, Canada to discover a new (well… sometimes funny) culture.
What about the future plans? I try to be better in webcomics, and there’s a lot to improve: Finding my unique style and being better in writing, communication, marketing. I hope that this will not only support my graphic designer career, it’ll provide an income later. We’ll see. Now I just enjoy to do it and I’d like to get feedback from you, readers. So feel free to contact me in any comic related subject, you find my contact details here.
As Yuko Shimizu, a wonderful Japanese illustrator wrote on her blog: “Art doesn’t save people’s lives, but it does certainly make our lives richer.” I believe that my comics can represent this philosophy and that’s my biggest motivation to make them.
