Title: Iris Inn
Genre: Comedy/Fluff/General
Form: Color webcomic

Summary

A bunch of half-animal characters run a semi-haunted vacation island inn and cafe.

The idea for this first spawned with just wanting to draw half-animals based off the Zodiac, like in my original DA submission. But I love stories, so I wanted to give them one. Something cute and comedic to match the theme. I heard about maid cafes and costume cafes from watching Lucky Star, Ouran High School Host Club, etc., and thought they were really neat. I combined the ideas and decided I wanted my zodiac-group to run a costume cafe. That way, I would also draw them in matching, themed sets too XD ! And then, rather recently, I realized that also making it a vacation spot and inn would make more sense with a few other things that were going on, so I added that. Lastly, I came up with it being haunted right as I was drawing layouts for the prologue.

Characters
Zodiac-Tan Design V1 - [link]

I originally planned on drawing them all chibi-style throughout the comic, but have since scrapped that idea. This is OLD VERSION, VERSION 1 of these characters. Some things stay the same, a lot has/will change. I haven't even named all the characters yet.


Rhea - Rat - Female - She's bossy, stingy, ambitious, manipulative, and a workaholic. But she's good at what she does and she gets things done!

Orion - Ox - Male - He's pretty laid-back. He's been accused of being a slacker, but he's actually a pretty reliable worker once you drag him out of bed and away from the video games.

You can see both these guys here: [link]

Status:
I've got the idea and the characters pretty much figured out at this point. I've just started to try drawing some actual comic pages. Writing script for the prologue, drawing the page layouts for chapter 1, etc.. Just cranking random stuff out though, it's not like I'm on a schedule or anything.



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