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Inspired largely by R. Milholland's Something Positive this is my third attempt at a web-comic and much like his comic is about finding the positive in horrible situations, this comic is about dealing with the aspects of life that don't go your way.
Unfortunately, as I haven't had much luck finding a solution as to how to deal with things of that nature myself (and highly doubt I ever will), the comic is really more a reflection on my life and my viewpoints than any sort of cohesive nattative work moving towards a consistent theme.
February, herself, is a wanderer, still looking for her place in the world and trying to be happy with not finding it. She is loosely based on a combination of two of my friends yet tinged with a greater dose of my own bitterness. Originally she was intended to be the younger sister of a character from my second webcomic (Listen to Me (archives may appear eventually as filler or something)). But as that comic began to drift into the absurd and I became more bitter about my inability to get into a relationship (which was ultimately the point of the comic), I stopped working on it before January Gray had a chance to be introduced as one of the new roommates of the main character, Jane, for her sophomore year. For all intents and purposes this relation is still true and the characters from Listen to Me have already been introduced through this connection, but February Gray remains as a completely stand-alone work.
February Gray itself started as I very much enjoyed doing a webcomic, but my first attempt was far too experimental and my second was far too hopeful. Desperate for ideas for my junior year screenplay, I cannibalized my original idea for January, reducing her and her siblings from twelve (one for each month) to four, and decided to do a story loosely based on my own family structure, thusly giving birth to February in her current incarnation. Like the screenplay, the characters are based on my family only in structure with most of my siblings' traits combined into Marc while January is based largely on aspects of myself and April is completely original (February, as mentioned, is based chiefly on an odd combination of me and two of my friends).
The events in February Gray take place roughly four years after the events of the screenplay (which if you do the math, should tell you that the screenplay's about May's birth), but there are slight changes and contradictions between the comic and the screenplay, making February Gray a completely different entity than the screenplay and each is fully intended to stand on its own without relation to the other (please do not ask me any more about the screenplay, it will likely never be available for public viewing).
Samantha, Chuck, and pretty much every other character I introduce (save Victoria... though that's mentioned in a comic/newspost which can be found here) are completely original. Usually standing in for symbols of things of types of people or emotions or forces in my life that bother me or I find worth bringing into the comic in some way. The comic is set in Las Vegas because I find it a depressing symbol of false hope and dishonesty where the prospect of success often overshadowns the grim reality that the house always wins (as my own gambling problems have proven to me).
The comic serves primarily as entertainment, so don't take it too seriously (just because I get depressed over it, doesn't mean you should be). All I strive to be is honest and accurated with what I present, exploring the characters and making statements through them to the best of my abilities. I hope everything has a broad appeal (despite the occasional dirty word, theme, or action) and doesn't get too bogged down in obscure references to my own life or otherwise. I want you to enjoy yourselves reading it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born September 27, 1983 near Boston, Massachusetts, I am the oldest of four children, and spent most of my life before college in or around a small town just outside Boston. In 2002 I graduated from high school and moved to Los Angeles, California to pursure a cinema degress at the University of Souther California, graduating with a B.F.A. on May 12, 2006. I still currently reside in Los Angeles.
