The Kalem Society
Take One: The Original Series
This series, originally titled "The Lovecraft Society," was first launched on January 3, 2008. It ran until October 24, 2008, with a total of 42 pages. After a 6 year hiatus in which I moved twice and changed jobs three times, I was finally able to make time for my various creative projects and relaunched the comic.
Although I wanted to relaunch the project with a fresh start, after the complaining I've done about George Lucas (no offense), I would be a hypocrite if I tried to sweep the original version under the rug and pretend it didn't exist. So I'm preserving it here, no matter how embarrassed I am by my terrible writing.
Obviously the art is noticeably less polished (sometimes lazy, sometimes unforgivably lazy) and I'm more than a bit embarrassed by the dialogue in the original "In Medias Res." The relaunch version is completely different and takes the story in a different direction. However, the relaunch version of "The Doubter's Journal" is almost exactly the same because I was still pleased with how it turned out.
I decided to change the name of the series for the relaunch because although "The Lovecraft Society" has obvious name recognition, it felt to me like cheap name recognition. I didn't choose it for the name recognition – it's just what my friends and I called the original game. The name was also a bit misleading, as the comic isn't exclusively about the Cthulhu Mythos, and is (at best) loosely inspired by it.
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copyright © Christopher J. Russo 2008-2015
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