What is Crimson Dark?
Who are you?
How did Crimson Dark Begin?
Why is it called Crimson Dark?
Have you made any other webcomics?
How do you make Crimson Dark?
What is Crimson Dark?
Crimson Dark is a Sci-Fi webcomic created by David C. Simon, updated with a new page every Monday. Though work began on the strip in May 2006, it wasn't published until the 1st of June of that year (the archives were backdated, so that new readers would have more than one page to look at). The comic is a serialised story set during a massive inter-stellar war in the 27th century, but focuses primarily on a handful of individuals caught up in the middle of the war rather than the broader details of the conflict.
Who are you?
I like to think of myself as a story-teller first and foremost. I have studied Theatre Theory & Practice at University, Visual Art at TAFE and 3D animation and Interactive Entertainment (Game Design) at college. I think all of these skills played abig role in my work on Crimson Dark. As of 2012 I am working full-time as a writer at BioWare Austin where I am writing new content for Star Wars: The Old Republic.
How did Crimson Dark begin?
Crimson Dark, began back in High School where I would frequently doodle starships when I should have been taking notes. This might explain my performance in exams.
It was in 1997 when I was studying Theatre Theory and Practice at University that I started to create the universe of Crimson Dark. I daydreamed about a story set in the future featuring a great war between Earth and a mysterious alien race. Not particularly original, I know. I played with the idea, imagined a number of different stories, but most of my time was spent working on ideas and themes rather than actual characters. In the end, this version of Crimson Dark came to nought.
The idea resurfaced in May 2006 when someone, while browsing my gallery at DeviantArt, said that one of my images would make “great panel in a graphic comic mag”. Encouraged by this comment, and the fact that one of my submissions to DA had been selected and featured as a ‘Daily Deviation’, I decided it was time to revisit Crimson Dark. The setting is vastly different, but some of the key concept remain – and this time I actually have some characters, huzzah!
Why is it called ‘Crimson Dark’?
This is plot-related, and should be explained if you read through Chapter 2.
Have you made any other webcomics?
Nope, this is my first webcomic. Ok, that’s not entirely true – I’ve tried to make webcomics a few times over the years, but in each case the results were so embarrassingly terrible that I never even showed them to my friends, let alone the public. Crimson Dark is the first webcomic project I’ve done where I’ve actually been satisfied with the results.
How do you make Crimson Dark?
I put up a rough overview of the page creation process as a filler page between chapters 2 and 3. I also upload videos to YouTube occasionally, demonstrating aspects of the process.
Audio interview for The Gigcast
(the interview begins roughly halfway through the podcast)
Second Audio Interview for The Gigcast
Audio Interview for GeekCred
Written interview for Fleen
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