About
Valley of the Crescent Moon is the story of two hetero lifemates, The Cat and Mr. Merrik. They spend their time trying to figure out how to live in a comic strip and having various wild and wacky adventures. Or, really, just sitting around talking about nothing in particular. They stand around sometimes, too.
The Cast
T. Cat
T.C. or just Cat to his friends — a classicist who would like VCM to be more like his favourite comic, Beetle Bailey. He has a secret crush on Krazy Kat.
Mr Merrik
Mer to his friends, his mother calls him John, but that’s not his name. An iconoclast, who wants VCM to transcend tradition (whatever that might mean). His favourite comic is Blondie, but he tells people it’s Sam’s Strip.
Cthulhucito
An alien of unknown provenance. His mission seems to be to spread the word of Yog-Sothoth.
Donald Duck
Who’s got the sweetest disposition? One can’t guess who. Who never ever starts an argument? Who never shows a bit of temperment? Who’s never wrong, but always right? Who’d never dream of starting a fight? Who gets stuck with all the bad luck? No one, but Donald Duck!
Release schedule
Valley of the Crescent Moon releases a new strip whenever I feel like it. Mostly on Mondays.
The Author
Reverend Kalle Räisänen is a writer and web developer in his mid-twenties, who would say that the comic writes itself, if he wasn’t afraid that thinking that might be a sign of schizophrenia. His favourite comics and sources of thiever… umm, inspiration are Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Krazy Kat, and the Donald Duck/Scrooge Mcduck comics of Carl Barks, Don Rosa, and, especially, the Italian masters at Mondadori — Romano Scarpa, Giorgio Cavazzano, &c. He also likes writing about himself in the third person, though he’d like it more if it didn’t lead to having to use the passive voice so often.
Reverend R.’s other works can be seen at xork.deviantart.com and maat.fivebyfive.be. If you’re interested in runes, check out his interface for the Joint Nordic Rune text Database. If you’re interested in film, you might want to visit his film review site, Thebes.
The tools
Valley of the Crescent Moon is inked, coloured, and lettered (using fonts from Blambot) in ArtRage and/or The Gimp, using a Wacom tablet.
Contact
You can reach Kalle Räisänen via e-mail, revkalle@gmail.com. Bug him about keeping deadlines, send feedback, or whatever.