Alright, here we go. The first time I got the idea for this story was from a scrapped novel I intended to write years ago. It was about a snowman who wandered around blowing up buildings on the orders of a maniac who had a Hen of Eternal Youth. Unfortunately, due to events which were affecting the world at the time, I had to scrap it. Nevertheless, a lot of my ideas, like the snow world, came from that story, since I felt that nobody had really explained what happens to snowmen when they melt and where they go.
The reason I decided to make it a comic was after I read Stephen Collins' The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil. Before then, I had been dismissive of comics, but Collins' book opened my eyes to what the medium could do. Therefore, I took in all the great works of the art form - Watchmen, Raymond Briggs' When the Wind Blows, the rest of Alan Moore's body of work. These helped me decide that Nixvir should be a comic, that it should be a visual story for the medium of pictorial literature (which is a term I coined).
I decided to publish it online after some people rejected me for a podcast interview. It had originally been my intention to never show my "lockdown masterpiece" to anyone else, but I decided to get it published here anyway. I did it because I felt that the media I took in like films and television just weren't creative enough, and I wanted to do something different, to really do something ambitious.
