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Halloween 2024

| Peter Ahola

Taking a small break from page updates this week, but in it’s place I’m giving you all this year’s Halloween artwork. This year I’m combining Kalwa with another Green Raptor comic star, Amber, along with their supporting characters. Normally I try to give each character their own Halloween drawing, but I just couldn’t come up with individual ones this year, with Kalwa and Amber both wearing outfits from previous years. So I decided to combine both characters into one Halloween themed rock band. And yes, this was inspired by the Hex Girls from Scooby-Doo.

Summer 2023

| Peter Ahola

Little bit late on this but here’s our annual summer illustration. This year Kalwa’s joined by Amber the Mermaid, the other Green Raptor comic star. Hope you’re all enjoying the first bits of summer this year.

CHapter 27 Page 16

| Peter Ahola

Sorry for being late again everyone, just wrapping up some last stuff with the new house. I was also working on another art piece yesterday which kept me distracted. From now on we should be back on regular schedule when it comes to updates. This page is a big one as we finally meet our primary antagonist, and he will be going onto greater things in the near future.

As usual, click the thumbnail below to read the latest page.

CLICK THUMB TO READ LATEST PAGE!!!

Keijo Kalwa Double Feature

| Peter Ahola

We’re on break for page updates but we can still show of some fun art. Here’s a double feature of some stuff on my desktop for a while. Kalwa’s dressed up and ready to play some Keijo. For those not familiar, Keijo is a fictional women only sport featured in the anime of the same name. Players attempt to knock each other off a floating platform using nothing but their breasts and butts. The anime is kinda a scientific breakthrough, combing a suspenseful sports story with pure fan service.

So we got Kalwa in a training swimsuit for the sport and and a full on match with Ella, hopefully they got the strong enough butts for it.

KEIJO!!!! KALWA

| Peter Ahola

Originally a Lunchtime Sketch I posted on my facebook page, the original image was so cute I just had to color it. So here’s Kalwa in a training swimsuit for the sport of Keijo. Those unfamiliar with it, Keijo is a fictional sport featured in the anime series Hip Whip Girl Keijo!!!!

I’ve been watching the series on Crunchyroll streaming, it’s a scientific breakthrough of a show that combines a serious and intense sport like story with pure fan service. Seriously the entire series is basically learning combat with your rear end, and yet the show is still so intense. Plus it involves swimsuits and pool water, which I’m always a fan of. Makes me excited for summer to come again I can use the pool! Anyway, enjoy this lovely image of Kalwa ready to whip it on the field.

Cover Preview to chapter 27

| Peter Ahola

Quick preview shot to the cover of Chapter 27 with no logos or cropping, and yes we are turning up the “heat” on this next chapter, it’s gonna be pretty dark. But it will also be introducing a major character who will be playing a major role in the story going forward, so there will be a lot going on here and in the next chapter.

As mentioned this a preview, so I might still make a tweak here and there. Chapter 27 will start going up on the website this February.

Annoucements

| Peter Ahola

So I haven’t do much posting since Halloween, and that’s because I’ve been preparing for a short trip and I’ve had to prepare other work in advance since I won’t be near my computer to finish them up. As such, everything has just been backed up and bottlenecked. But I wanted to catch everyone up on what progress we got going.

So I recently decided to it was finally time to get serious about publishing books. It’s long been a serious project, but never really got off the ground. The first book I’m looking to make will contain the first five chapters of the story, we are looking to release it digitally on sites like Amazon first and then move into physical copies. The published version will contain some art and dialogue updates that will make them different from what is published on the site here. The first four chapters have all been edited, but the fifth chapter still needs it’s dialogue changed. We are looking at a February release date, so I will get a bit more serious one working on that once I get back from my trip. More to come on that as we get closer.

In addition, I’ve started posting Kalwa back onto webtoons in new episode formats. I had started uploading to Webtoons a few years ago, but gave up on it. Back then we didn’t have as many chapters as we do now, and in order to constantly update and make the comic active, I was only uploading a few pages per episode which I think really padded it out beyond audience attention. Now chapters are uploaded to the site in two parters and on the same day. I’m also looking to upload to Webcomics and Tapas, again probably after I get back from the trip.

Well continuing on from the last paragraph, I was preparing this weeks double chapter update and discovered that chapter 6 and 7 were each missing a page that I failed to upload to this website. This issue has now been resolved and chapters 6 and 7 now have their missing pages on this website.

Finally news on chapter 27, I started writing it but only got five pages done at this point. Again most of it is due to work to prep for the trip and the fact that my youtube music is tainted right now by annoying ads, but mostly the former. We are going to be doing this chapter a little differently than before. The process up to this point is I write the script, step away fro a week, go back and re-edit then hand it over to Ryan to edit. He gets me the re-edited script and I start working on a page by page basis.

This time I’ll be taking a different approach, I’ll be roughing the entire chapter at once after my original chapter and then start penciling pages as I get his edits. Also I won’t start uploading until I’ve completed ten pages at least. This way, I can hopefully provide a better product by being able to walk away and take a second look at the work rather than having to crank it out in the moment. This will also allow the freedom to work on other projects and illustrations and have a “social life” by creating a buffer to allow for more pages to come out in the future. This might take a little longer to get it out, but it will make things better in the long run. Meanwhile I’ll still be posting artwork, behind the scenes work and more as we are getting there. This site is meant for more than just promoting the comic after all.

So I wanted to bring this up right now and let everyone know what’s going on. I appreciate everyone who follows this website and keeps up with the work that goes on here, it really makes it all worth while. And I’ll do what I can to keep everyone in the loop of what’s going on!

Ninja Kalwa

| Peter Ahola

Back from a bit of a break. I’ve been working on some other artwork on the Green Raptor website and other online accounts, plus preparing for a trip. So I’ve been a tad distracted since the end of Halloween. But here’s a new art piece for the time being, This ninja Kalwa drawing was actually started last month, but I didn’t want to disrupt the Halloween sprit, so I put it off till I finished the Halloween draw off over on the Green Raptor site. Hope you all enjoy.

Vintage Kalwa Art

| Peter Ahola

Today’ I’m showing y’all some artwork from my deep archives. Today I’m showing you all the very FIRST drawing of Kalwa ever done and an early sketch of Juro, who would go on to become Reko in the current story. These drawings were original drawn in Middle/ High school (hence their more amateurish proportions).

As a little backstory, the original concept for Kalwa was first created in middle school at a time I was making a lot of my own stories, more than I could probably fine tune and perfect. Kalwa was actually the fourth story I came up with, the original concept was instead of a phone, she had a time traveling watch that was damaged and flung her back in time, resulting in her having to find all the pieces in different eras in order to return home. While today, Kalwa is an eccentric adventurer with a positive outlook on life, the original version was an isolated loner whose unique interest caused others to distance from her.

Juro wasn’t initially Kalwa’s friend, but rather a loner himself who wished to befriend her but couldn’t work up the nerve. Juro would work with Kalwa’s brother Risto (later changed to Zack), in order to find out about A-Tech and what was really going on. This concept was completely dropped in the story today, as Kalwa would just discover these secrets herself and therefore the whole concept would just be repeating what Kalwa and the Audience already knew. Also Juro was supposed to be of Japanese decent which would tie in to another arch where a character in Japan would propose to Kalwa. Again this storyline was dropped and thus Juro was a given a proper Finnish name of Reko.