Curious Demon Lovers

I went to a really fancy bookstore today that specialized in artbooks, and among books about art in the Middle East was, for some reason, one about erotic art from ancient Japan. I had to own that.

So this is inspired by such art. No picture in particular, but just the playful and often silly nature of Japanese erotic art from that period.

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Queen of Demons

I saw this video and thought, "Jacob would so hit that. Hard" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEKIcrnExek&feature
That is the queen of demons, Rangda, from Bali.

And I came to the conclusion that Jacob is a yaksha, which is a form of Hindu nature spirit that can be both evil and romantic, depending on it's mood. They are even formed in the roots of trees, so that classification fitted Jacob perfectly.

Don't worry about Nini. The only thing about this that'll upset her is that Jacob got lost on his way to the grocery store.

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Girls' Night

It's late and I should not be making comics at this hour. I just end up making dirty jokes about kappas' habit of sharing their "victims" with their friends. Honestly, kappas are horrible horrible creatures.

I colored this one on computer because I wanted the kappas to have different shades of blue/green/yellow which I can't so with my markers.

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Come closer human

Well, I was sick and wanted to cheer myself up. Inspired by this, um...cute Indian video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRxehxAYDf8

Me? A butt-woman? What gave you that idea?

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Foundling

A kappa's favorite foods are cucumbers and human children. Luckily for that baby Jacob likes humans, so he isn't going to let her eat it. :sweat:

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Happy Marriage

LOL "Harpy Marriage" :dummy:
I went crazy with the shiny. I'm sorry.

Most of the Japanese yokai monsters are only shown to be one gender (Unlike the Nordic monsters who more often than not has big families) but for some reason especially the tengu's private life has been the source of great speculation. None of the old stories explains where tengus come from, they are always male and there are no stories of them having intercourse with human women, so it has been speculated that the tengu women look so different that they are considered a different race, or possibly that they live far away from the men.
I joined the two theories with the harpies. They are only female but are said to get pregnant "from the wind", and tengus are said to be the masters of wind.

Case solved!

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Yokai Lottery

Yup, that's a real Japanese demon. It's called a shirime. They usually target samurai, but this time Nini was the lucky one. They don't hurt or chase people, they simply moon them and shows off their shimmering eye.

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Jacob, Nini and Friends

This one really took forever to make, my computer hate the file, and I'm not even done with it yet. But it was fun. I originally wanted there to be monsters from many different cultures, but I ended up only using Japanese monsters (exept for the little demon guy at the bottom who's from India, and the angels of course). Maybe next time.

It will be sold as a poster at the London Expo convention.

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Take a bow

People keep asking what Jacob would do if someone hurt Nini. Would he even care?
Yes he would.

For those few who don't know, kappas are said to have a bowl on their head filled with water, and if they meet them you should take a deep bow for them because they will bow back and the water will spill out, making them lose their strength.

A less known part of kappa folklore is that samurai are their worst enemy, because they tend to trick or kill kappas when they see them.

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JacobXNini sketches

A pair of somewhat pervy sketches of Jacob and Nini with friends.

The top sketch has Ruth in it, the blue oni woman from a few comics back. I deliberately give them horribly inaccurate names, a weird trend that started with the Indian demon named...Jacob. You get the picture.

The bottom sketch is a redone version of an old Japanese painting showing a woman perving on two samurais that I found in a book once. I don't remember how they could tell, but the book said that her pose showed that she was only pretending to be shy about watching them. I know their bodies look oddly short, but that's what the original looked like.
Both Jacob and the other demon guy are based on paintings of Indian demons. I just thought the weird forehead plate thingie on the other guy was too cool to be ignored and had to use him in something.

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