Hello, all.

I have spent the last three months of my life creating a new kind of webcomic. A webcomic without art. A webcomic without point. A webcomic about hats.

And I’ve nearly finished creating sufficient backlog to combat my insecurity, so I’m settling on a launch date of the 30th of March 2009 (which is a Monday), at which point, the comic will be published at the frequency advertised in the banner. (Mondays, Wednesdays and, indeed, Fridays, for those reading this in RSS readers or some such who are having to live without the banner.)

I hope it will be fun. Do join me.

Today is the launch of Behatted, a webcomic about small hats.

Well, if I’m honest, it’s more a webcomic about people, who just happen to be represented by small hats. Unfortunately, I have the relative artistic ability of a chimp with two broken arms, and cannot even draw the curtains. But I’ve loved the comic form since the age of ten, and this is a way for me to finally work in it. After a fashion.

And it’s not as if there’s no artistic ability involved at all. The backgrounds, lovingly created in MS Paint, are… well, nowhere near as bad as I expected them to be. (The fact that you are viewing the final comics at a much smaller size than I “drew” them helps.)

Anyway, I’m not going to drag this blog entry out too long, as I probably shouldn’t build the above up as the Citizen Kane of webcomics. It is what it is; we have jokes, an ongoing mystery plot and lots of hats. I’ve created up to episode 39, mostly out of paranoid terror and determination not to be one of those webcomics that goes lurching off schedule, and I’m even quite proud of some of them.

That’ll do for now. This blog will update sporadically, whenever I have thoughts to share that pertain to the comic, in some remote manner. If you’d like to hear me ramble about rather less pertinent issues, I have a personal blog for that, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Enjoy. (Hopefully.)