Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, January 9, 2014,
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, October 10, 2013,
Today I received a wonderful surprise through Facebook:
Dr. Rianne Nicah and Ling Duck by Christian Kaw
I was a huge fan of
Heavy Metal magazine back in the day when it was readily available in magazine stores in my country. It introduced me to the fantasy comic genre and to numerous artists who would later on inspire and influence me in my own craft, most notably Massimiliano Frezzato, who is to this day my favorite comic artist.
It's memories of those days of reading the magazine that...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Monday, September 23, 2013,
Last night I was delighted to receive the following guest art for the 17th Anniversary of
Callous celebration!
Dr. Rianne Nicah and Cal Duck by Michelle Soneja
This absolutely gorgeous guest artwork is by Michelle "Shelly" Soneja, one of the artists of
Robot with a Smile, a studio which provides artistic services for video games, illustrations, comics, and the like! I love that she took some liberties with Cal Duck's relative size to Rianne, to very cute effect! I admittedly haven't been ...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Tuesday, August 6, 2013,
Hey everyone!
Well, what do you know? My little comic strip is
17 years old! I would never have thought that many years ago that this day could be a reality... yet here we are.
It's still so surreal to me that the once deeply hidden side of me would eventually spawn a second profession. Thank you to everyone, readers and friends, for being so supportive! And to those who have expressed just how much my work has brightened your day, as long as I can, I'll move mountains to keep at it...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Friday, August 2, 2013,
Hey everyone!
As we continue our countdown to August 7, 2013 (which is
Callous' 17th anniversary) I'll be featuring guest art below the regular comic strips! Let's see what awesomeness awaits us today!
Dr. Rianne Nicah by Ronzkie Pacho Vidal
This absolutely stunning rendition of Rianne is by the amazing Ronzkie Pacho Vidal of
Ikos Komiks! I get floored every time I see her work online and I was just delighted to receive this piece! Her self-published comic books are also some of the m...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Monday, December 24, 2012,
The above comic strip is part of the "Heartstring Pizzicato" storyline! Click
HERE to start from the beginning then click "Next Post" to proceed!
Hey everyone!
So, it's Christmas Day, 2012! This being the season of giving, later on I'll have some gifts for you! Woohoo!
Firstly, I apologize for the irregular update schedule but I've been so busy lately that this current storyline should have been done last September but it's still ongoing! One of the things that has been keeping me from regul... Continue reading ...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Friday, December 23, 2011,
This charming guest comic strip is by Joanah Tinio Calingo, the incredible artist behind
Cresci Prophecies! Thanks Joanah!
According to her site, Cresci is a series that started in 1996 and is a story set in a fantasy scape of Mortals and gods called
Accaides.
Check out Joanah's
DeviantArt site and her
comic's website! She can also be found on
Google +! Thanks again, Joanah!
Callous Comics is currently on break and is open for guest work! If you'd like to be featured, please clic...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Tuesday, December 13, 2011,
Originally posted in http://www.mylifeinthetrenches.com. Re-published here with permission.
This hilarious comic strip is by T. Andrew Dempsey, the heart and soul of the webcomic,
My Life in the Trenches!
Tim asked me if he could have Rianne guest in his comic as a doctor again, and I was more than happy to oblige! Tim is one artist I know who
gets the good doctor. In this comic, it particularly shows in her prolonged interjection, "Dear Mother-of-Pearl!"
I don't know if anyone ha...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Tuesday, December 6, 2011,
This marvelous painting of Dr. Rianne and Cal Duck is by a wonderful Brazilian artist, Cátia Ana da Silva! In the e-mail this painting was attached to, Cátia Ana explained that she had been painting (of the non-digital sort) using India Ink lately and decided to use this medium in depicting the main protagonists of Callous Comics while adding an extra touch that Rianne and Cal would love... she also used coffee!
Cátia Ana has an innovative online illustrated tale of a young woman r...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, December 1, 2011,
This delightful guest art of Dr. Rianne is by
The Manila Bulletin cartoonist,
Freely Abrigo! Here she dons a Cal Duck hat, which is cute in itself, but what stands out to me is her expression of utter glee! It truly makes you feel her joy while it has you wondering what in the world has her feeling so great.
Such is the talent behind such beloved comic series as
Kulas and
Kapitan Tog. I am very honored to have Rianne taken form from Freely's drawing hand! You can certainly appreciate the c...
Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Saturday, November 26, 2011,
This intense guest work is by Andrew Villar of
Ambush fame! Colors by yours truly.
The original line work of this piece was
featured before in the blog. I thought I'd feature it again in color! Depicted in this energized artwork is a battle-weary Amber Tiffany whose wounds are being tended to by
Callous Comics' Doctors Rianne Nicah and Aimee Queens, who both have apparently seen some action themselves!
Ambush is a regular adventure comic strip published in the
Manila Bulletin. Be sure to fo...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Monday, November 21, 2011,
This phenomenal guest art of Cal Duck and the Retskaffenfaust-brandishing Rianne is by Ferrari Ferrarez! Unfinished colors by yours truly.
This was actually a commissioned piece as Ferrari was at a nearby table during Metro Comic Con 2011. I asked if he could try drawing my characters in his style and he accepted the challenge! I was expecting a little sketch on a piece of paper but the following day he gave me this drawing which filled up an entire A3 sheet! I gave him a free copy of my b...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, November 17, 2011,
This wonderful guest comic strip is by the indubitable gentleman, Michael Phelps!
Michael does the delightful webcomic,
Life on 66, which deals with a group of friends living and working in a small town along the famous Route 66. You might think life there is slow, but it is filled with adventures big and small!
However, I first encountered Michael through his old comic,
Blue No. 7. I enjoyed it enough to start following him on Twitter (and that explains his Twitter
nom de plume,
BlueNo7).
Sin...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Sunday, November 13, 2011,
This wonderful comic strip is by Chris Pellicer, the amazing talent behind the
Crappy Puppet Show comic strip!
This comic strip was given to me as a prize for coming up with a name for the followers of the
Crappy Puppet Show. I came up with "Crappeteers" and thankfully, Chris loved it! Does that make me the first official "Crappeteer"?
You can take your first step into becoming a Crappeteer by following
@crappy_puppets on Twitter!
Thanks for this incredible gift, Chris!
Callous Comics is curren...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Sunday, August 7, 2011,
Oh, Tom... had you said coffee in addition to that, she definitely would have changed her mind!
This impressive guest comic was done by none other than
Timothy Dempsey, who does the great comic strip,
My Life in the Trenches!
Tim was one of the first friends I made once I began making daily
Callous comic strips and is one of the very few webcomic artists that I've met beyond the internet (y'know, in real life)! We met up in a Starbucks in North Bergen, New Jersey last May and talked about comi...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Sunday, August 7, 2011,
This delightful guest art is from
Wendy Wood who does the comic series,
Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit! We've noticed this coincidence before regarding Thalia and Muscovy Duck's shirts and Wendy made this great cartoon off of it!
I first encountered Wendy in 2009 in the
Webcomic List forum where she is an admin. If you do go to that forum and want to personalize your profile picture and signature, Wendy's the person to go to! But for that time, that's as far as our correspondence went.
Then, in...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Saturday, August 6, 2011,
This crossover comic strip was given by Travis Surber who does the funny comic series,
Hainted Holler! It's always a great experience to see how someone else draws my characters and I love this rendition of Cal Duck!
Travis took me up on my offer to do a guest comic for him for my guest comic bonanza/insanity last July 19. He was nice enough to return the favor for this 15th anniversary milestone! Thank you, good sir!
Hainted Holler is a comic that revolves around geeks, rednecks, baboons, a...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Friday, August 5, 2011,
This epic guest art was done by no other than the magnificent Liz Staley who does the awesome comic,
Adrastus! Here she depicts Rianne in the fantasy side of Callous Comics, brandishing her sword, Retskaffenfaust! In the background is the ever-mysterious Guardian Duck, Master Kalus.
Adrastus is a rockin' comic which is a sort of homage to the campy Japanese TV "mystical giant robot" genre. There's not much like it out there and recently it has been picking up a lot of steam! So go check ...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, August 4, 2011,
Starting off the celebrations for
Callous Comics' 15th anniversary is this great guest artwork by
Sheryl Schopfer, the incredible artist behind the endearing and charming comic series,
Deer Me!
I first encountered Sheryl in 2009 as she was organizing the
Webcomic Secret Santa Exchange. I thought that doing such a thing on a yearly basis was quite nice of her and I started following her comic since! I'm so happy she took part in helping me celebrate this milestone. Thank you so much, my frie...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Sunday, January 2, 2011,
This guest comic is by Teddy Pavon, artist of the online comic series,
Work in Progress!
I first met Teddy during the
2010 Metro Comic Con, where he and
Work in Progress writer, Hub Pacheco, were going around the event floor handing out free copies of their series' introductory chapter. I once again met the duo at
Komikon 2010 when they released the printed first chapter of their comic (which I was fortunate to get a copy of as I heard they sold out fast).
Work in Progress is the story of Eli,...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, December 23, 2010,
For the second year in a row, I participated in the
Webcomic Secret Santa Exchange which is organized by one of the first friends I made in online comics, Sheryl Schopfer, author of the great comic,
Deer Me.
This year, I have the great fortune and honor of having Zoë Kirk-Robinson, who along with Jennifer Kirk works on such great comics as
All Over the House and
The Life of Nob T. Mouse, as my "Secret Santa"! She made this delightful holiday art for
Callous Comics and I love it!
Are you wonde...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, December 23, 2010,
This amazing piece of holiday art is by the incredibly talented Ernest John Daryll Fiestan, author of
Crazy Metro comics!
It features most of my recurring characters all dressed up and merry for the season, it's just absolutely wonderful! Thank you so much, Ernest, and Merry Christmas!
Please go check out
Crazy Metro now!
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Tuesday, December 7, 2010,
Originally published in
Crazy Metro, republished here with permission.
Crazy Metro is ©2010, Ernest John Daryll Fiestan
Crazy Metro's Ernest John Daryll Fiestan returns once again to
Callous with this guest strip! The movie in question appears to be
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, where the characters seem take a quantum leap in maturity.
Thanks again to Ernest for lending his incredible art to
Callous!
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Saturday, December 4, 2010,
Originally published in
Fiestan's DeviantArt site, republished here with permission.
Crazy Metro is © 2010, Ernest John Daryll Fiestan
Ernest returns to
Callous to finish his guest storyline (which began
HERE), this time featuring Gray Woodrow and Audrey Nicah! At least now Rianne's secret is safe! Thanks again Ernest!
Check out Ernest's comic,
Crazy Metro!
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Wednesday, December 1, 2010,
This great piece of guest art is by Lyndon Nuyles! He's a talented artist and has recently been impressing the local indie scene with his interpretations of various characters! Thanks, Lyndon! Can't wait to see what you have in store in the future!
Lyndon Nuyles and Darco do the great comic book,
Earthborne!
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Tuesday, November 30, 2010,
Originally published in
Crazy Metro! Republished here with permission.
Crazy Metro is ©2010, Ernest John Daryll Fiestan
Crazy Metro's Ernest John Daryll Fiestan follows up his
previous guest comic strip for
Callous with this one! With all the roasted fowl present, it's probably best that Cal is in Peanut Butter heaven elsewhere... albeit in the thoughts of one JV!
Ernest seems to be having a lot of fun with this multi-series crossover. In the middle frame, he features yours truly in a came...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Monday, November 29, 2010,
Originally published in
Crazy Metro, re-published here with permission.
Crazy Metro is © 2010, Ernest John Daryll Fiestan
This guest comic strip is by Ernest John Daryll Fiestan! I consider it a joy to meet fellow webcomic artists from my own country and Ernest was gracious enough to lend his great art skills to
Callous in this guest comic strip!
Ernest writes and illustrates the webcomic
Crazy Metro which is about five guys who live in an apartment experiencing life's ups and downs and brav...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Saturday, October 23, 2010,
Beginning the Halloween season for
Callous is this guest cartoon by Dustin Reese, who writes and illustrates the excellent comic series,
Plus One! Considering this particular patient load, I'm surprised the ER staff is so well-composed!
Dustin has done several guest work for
Callous in the past. Check out his previous contributions
HERE and
HERE!
Be sure to read his sprawling pregnancy-to-parenting adventure series,
Plus One!
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Saturday, October 16, 2010,
This nice little gift is from Thorne, who does the fantasy comic series,
Tears and Pain! This strip is a nice little gift, featuring a bobblehead figure of
Tears and Pain's main protagonist, Conlan!
Thorne has done a
guest comic strip for Callous before, he's been a great supporter of the series! Thanks again, Thorne!
Please check out
Tears and Pain, a truly epic fantasy adventure!
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Sunday, October 10, 2010,
This guest comic strip is by Dag Nygaard (A.K.A. "Roo") from Norway! Roo writes and illustrates the excellent comic, "
Vanadys: Tales of a Fallen Goddess"! I really appreciate this brilliant throwback to
The Land of the Guardians storyline (which you can read by starting
HERE and clicking "Next Post" to proceed) and the reference to the Muscovy Duck concept art I posted on this site's
blog which I haven't even used on the actual comic series yet! Now here's an artist who did some research! ...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, October 7, 2010,
This guest cartoon is by Katherine Curtis, the great talent behind the brilliant comic series,
Our Perfect World! Once again, Katherine has been gracious enough to lend her quirky humor and delightful art to
Callous comics! She has done two guest spots in the past (Click
HERE and
HERE to see them)!
Our Perfect World is a comic about how our world isn’t perfect (ironic,
isn’t it?). It follows the life of Kat, a young adult attempting to
discover what happiness is. With her friends and ...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Monday, September 27, 2010,
Yipes! This creepy guest comic strip is by Steve Brute, the man behind the
Frightfully Shocking Tales of Spoons comic! Thanks Steve!
It must be said, his comic is not suitable for people under the age of 15! Be warned, naughty language, some violence, and general horror await you there! At the proper age and still up for it? Great! Check out this chilling, suspense-filled and fun comic!
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, September 9, 2010,
Mishap Realms #95 is ©2010, Pilar Nenita P. Esber, originally published
HERE. Republished with permission.
This great-looking guest comic strip is by Pilar Nenita P. Esber, the fantastic talent behind the endearing art of
Mishap Realms! Thanks for the awesome Cal Duck cameo!
Pilar is currently a Fine Arts and Designs student with a Major in Advertising whose lifelong passion for comics was further sparked upon meeting the great
Gerry Alanguilan.
Mishap Realms features a depiction of the artist...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Wednesday, September 8, 2010,
This adorable piece of guest art is by Jess Warren, the genius behind the delightful
Borked Planet and
Smellabell!
Jess was the inspiration behind the unicorn
Bel Bean rode down a rainbow in the storyline:
The Land of the Guardians. That says a lot about her cheerful personality! Thanks so much, Jess!
Be a Borksketeer! Check out the cute characters of Jess Warren's
Borked Planet! Also see what
Smellabell is up to!
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Sunday, September 5, 2010,
This fantastic drawing of Rianne during her time in the Land of the Guardians is by Dustin Reese! He is the great talent behind the incredibly entertaining and heartwarming comic,
Plus One!
Dustin surprised me one day with this drawing in my e-mail inbox. He said this was a quick scribble on his
Wacom tablet and I think it came out great! This is his rendition of a now classic frame from the "
Lady from the Moon" comic strip from the
Callous storyline,
The Land of the Guardians! Thanks Dust...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Monday, June 7, 2010,
This comic strip is a great guest contribution by Horton Novak of
Skeletica! In this crossover Skeletica tells it like it is! Give it up, Rianne! No matter how hard you try you won't find a pulse!
Skeletica features the titular character, a stylish, beautiful blond skeleton who attends college! The series chronicles her student "life": chasing boys, going shopping, and looking at her awesome self in the mirror! Join Skeletica and her other "lively" friends by clicking
HERE!
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Friday, May 28, 2010,
This great guest comic strip is by Dustin Reese! He writes and illustrates the comic,
Plus One! Tsk, tsk, oh Rianne... she may be right but she's gotta learn to keep her mouth shut sometimes. Or at least whisper...
Plus One follows Desmond and Violet as they weed through the many pregnancy myths
and legends, discovering just what its like to be an expecting parent (and lately, what it's like to be new parents)!
Just a few of the obstacles standing between their success include
telling f...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
This guest comic strip is by the talented Cátia Ana da Silva from Brazil! She is the writer and artist of
O Diário de Virgínia! I wonder about how effective this form of anesthetic would be... but it sure seems to be working for Virginia!
O Diário de Virgínia is a gorgeously illustrated online story written in Portuguese. It features Virginia and the fantastic and sometimes nonsensical world written within her diary! Cátia Ana describes Virginia as a poor girl who has lost her way, a...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Friday, May 21, 2010,
This brilliant
Callous guest comic strip is by
Supe and Indy's Shawn Williams! I can imagine how flabbergasted Rianne must have been after this but I admit that I can't stand waiting rooms too!
Supe and Indy is a monthly comic series published in
Comics Buyer's Guide! It features Supe, a famous retired Super-Hero, and Indy, an
underappreciated everyman! Check out their amazing (and hilarious) misadventures in Shawn's blog! Supe and Indy is by Blayne Belter and Shawn Williams and you can f...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Wednesday, May 19, 2010,
This great guest comic is by
Addanac City's George Ford! Poor Cal Duck! He may mean well, but he needs to know when to let the good doctor be!
Addanac City by George Ford stars Hank Addanac, an endearing kid whose every step hilariously disturbs the very fabric of peaceful life like a tornado! In his wake are his family and friends who not only have to play damage control but may realize that maybe, just maybe there's a little Hank in each of them! Furthermore, even amidst the destruction,...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Monday, May 17, 2010,
Our Perfect World's Katherine Curtis was gracious enough to make another guest comic strip for
Callous! Thank you so much! Ah, those auto-correcting T9 dictionaries and other spell checking software on celphones are great texting aids... when they're on!
Our Perfect World also participated in May 14's Dialogue Free Comics Day! Click on the following link to check it and the other participating comics (including
Callous) out!
Dialogue Free Comics Day Website And of course, click on the foll...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Tuesday, May 11, 2010,
Today's guest comic is by Katherine Curtis, the great talent behind
Our Perfect World comics! I wonder what incredible awesomeness Rianne's patient went through? Guess I'll have to search for the viral video...
Our Perfect World is a comic about how our world isn’t perfect (ironic,
isn’t it?). It follows the life of Kat, a young adult attempting to
discover what happiness is. With her friends and family by her side, the comic
explores the small things that make life epically hilariou...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Friday, May 7, 2010,
Today's
Callous guest comic strip is by T. Andrew Dempsey, the fantastic talent behind the great online comic strip series,
My Life in the Trenches! I think he did a great job capturing the humor of
Callous, particularly when it comes to Rianne's clinic setting! Thanks Timothy!
Read more of Timothy's work in
My Life in the Trenches, a brilliant series featuring Tom and Tara as they venture through life and the many facets of it's glorious ennui!
If you or anyone you know is interested in subm...
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Wednesday, May 5, 2010,
Today's great
Callous guest comic is by
Bearman Cartoons. a brilliant comic series with a funny take on politics and pop culture! Thank you so much! I sure wish I was chillin' as much as Cal Duck! :-)
Bearman Cartoons currently have an admirable charity drive going on where cartoonists, bloggers, and other online enthusiasts can help out by performing simple tasks! Click on the following link to see how you can help!
Bearman Charity Challenge 2010Click on the banner below to check out
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Posted by Carlo Jose San Juan, MD on Thursday, April 22, 2010,
Today's guest
Callous comic strip is by Thorne, the writer and current artist of the fascinating fantasy adventure comic strip,
Tears and Pain! Thanks Thorne!
In case you don't understand what's going on here, Thorne's strip is following-up on the recent
Callous story arc,
The Chronicles of Chaturanga, where Rianne stars as the mighty Black Queen. You can check out that tale by starting at
"Prelude to Retribution"!
You can check out
Tears and Pain in the following URL!
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All Callous comic strips are
written and illustrated by Carlo Jose San Juan unless otherwise
specified. Lettering by Carlo Jose S. San Juan, MD and Phil Elliott 
