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Arik Grant
Boise, Idaho bohicablues.com/
I love stories of action, adventure, and dealing with conflict. My biggest project to date is the historical (family-friendly) comedy "BOHICA Blues", inspired by my real-life experiences as a deployed soldier to Iraq. I also have a deep appreciation for science fiction and will be producing another series in that genre.
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A panel of an upcoming comic... [image]
Here's the progression of my characters since 2013 to 2021...I need to add a 2025 row! [image] My first comic: [image] This one came out a few days ago: [image] [image]
Sure, if you want to! Here's a few shots if you like, and I'll post a link to the comic too if you want more. [image] Staff Sergeant Joe Rock: [image] 1st Sergeant Douglas Dawg: [image] Captain Mirav Mizrachi: [image] Sergeant Juni Okuda: [image] Sadie, the Military Working Dog: [image] …
BOHICA Blues, overall, started as a standalone webcomic in 2013, and has been publishing regularly since and still is to this day. I have been loading it on Tapas for the last 2-3 years, since September of 2022. I'm wrapping up the main story here on Tapas soon (another month or two) and eventually …
Captain Mirav Mizrachi, commander of Alpha Company, 213th Engineering Battalion. She has a complex background of African-American, Korean, Iraqi and white heritage. She was in Iraq before taking command of the Company. [image] Sergeant Juni Okuda, Intelligence Sergeant for Alpha Company, 213th BN…
Glad you like it! It seems like certain things about the veteran experience are universal.
BOHICA Blues is a historical slice-of-Army-life comic about what it was like to deploy to the Iraq War as a Reserve soldier during the Global War on Terrorism, over 20 years ago. I'm not the type of person to keep diaries or journals (I've tried, I just can't get into it) but I did turn my daily act…
Hello! Sure, I will promote here... hopefully some folks will be interested! BOHICA Blues is a slice-of-life in the military, starting during the Iraq War and going through to modern times. I have hundreds of comics already posted, so it is great if you are a binge-reader. This is a historical come…
Holy cow! Did BOHICA Blues really reach 400 comics? Yes in deedly-do, neighbor! We recently hit the 400 comics mark on the 9th of April! Here it is! BOHICA Blues started as a way for me to communicate my real-world experiences being deployed to Iraq; I use PG-level humor (sorta like the classi…
Recently my long-running series, BOHICA Blues, wrapped up the first major part of the story-- they were deployed to Iraq, but now they are going home! The comic is a humorous interpretation of my real-life deployment to Iraq, with a lot of absurd humor about the Army and conflict and so on. It …
Yeah, I've noticed that while I have a long-form story goal in mind (a definite start, points I want to touch on in the middle, and a desired end point) what I end up with a lot of times are a series of mini-arcs that are strung together, sometimes with standalone gag-a-day comics sandwiched between…
Tell ya what some of those cookie recipes I'm going to try some of them! Especially the chocolate chips ones. I'm a sucker for chocolate chip cookies.
Hello, I've been doing my comic, BOHICA Blues, for about 10 years now. It is technically a long-form story, but told in gag-a-day format, which is kind of hard sometimes. In the world of webcomics I've seen a lot of talk about whether it is better to do a long form story, or to stick to gag-a-day…
BOHICA Blues: My family-friendly historical comedy about being deployed to Iraq as an Army Reservist! Designed for (and hopefully encourages) binge reading, my comic is rolling along pretty well with single-page updates each weekday. I also include commentary that helps explain things like various a…
The most recent update-- yesterday afternoon! BOHICA Blues is a family-friendly historical comedy inspired by actual events. I'm on my way to 200 episodes! [image]
I also have a YouTube channel-- it's pretty sleepy. I am not very regular about making videos; I just make them when I make them. I talk about things going on in the webcomic community, my journey as a cartoonist, thoughts on different things; my characters and their journeys; blending my military e…
BOHICA Blues continues to chug along! A historical comedy inspired by my RL deployment to Iraq, this features the lives of a bunch of Army Reservists from Boise, Idaho that get sent to the Iraq War in 2004. This is more "family friendly" than most veteran comics, which tend to be pretty salty; I wan…
Hi Everyone! Do you have a comic based on historical stuff? Personal experience? Military experience? Or the military in general, even if it is fictional? Let's share! My comic is "BOHICA Blues", and it is a historical comedy based on my actual experiences being deployed to the Iraq War. It is not…
Thank you! The art improves over time, of course.
Great range of expressions, @RSung!
Well.. I'm in my mid-50's and have been doing comics off-and-on for years. Here's my latest ongoing project, BOHICA Blues, a historical comedy about the Iraq War. It's rated about PG or so and reflect my actual experiences to an extent (a lot of fictionalized absurdist humor is injected to reflect t…
These are some of my characters as they changed over time from when I first started making my comic in 2013 through 2021. I need to get some good samples of 2023 in there too. I have a bit of an ensemble cast so these are just the main movers & shakers for most of it. [image]
I'd love to be able to write convincingly about medical stuff, both physical and mental, but holy cats that would be a lot of heavy lifting. Also I kinda had a funny idea of converting the classic opera "Carmen" into a science-fiction setting, but the scope of that seems kind of daunting.
Okay, thanks for the offer! Here is BOHICA Blues, a historical comedy about the Iraq War, rated about PG -ish to maybe PG-13.
Hello! Recently wrapped up a big 15-page multi-part story arc in my comic, BOHICA Blues! Here is the chapter where it starts; you don't need too much context to jump in although (of course) it helps to know the characters, etc, from the earlier episodes. It is a comedy based in the Iraq War of 2004 …
Hey, I was wondering if it would be possible for Tapas to have Fan Art Galleries for people to feature fan art done of their comics. Maybe up to 5 images for people under 100 subs, and 10 images for people over 100, or something like that. Obviously we couldn't have unlimited art galleries because t…
Hello! Here is mine... I think people aren't sure what to expect! It is a family-friendly historical comedy about the Iraq War, kind of like the classic TV show "M*A*S*H" but more modern. It is inspired by my actual experiences and in some cases lifted directly from things I did myself while deploye…