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A brand of mature audience webcomics and graphic novels published by Catnose Comics, a department of VAS Littlecrow. They are not safe for work and are not meant for children.
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Upir’s Mark Blog - Concluded 12/20/2011
Summary: The surviving members of Upir’s Mark grow up and move out to present day Minneapolis, MN. They document their lives, loves, rants and silly moments in a crudely-drawn hybrid webcomic blog. It’s the only Velvet Rasputin comic where the characters will answer your questions directly. Written and rendered by VAS Littlecrow and Narphy La Mancha. Updated daily. (Adult subjects, frank discussion of mental illness and abuse, strong language, nudity,violence, and drugs.)
Velvet Rasputin is a collection of interconnected mature audience web and print graphic novels from Catnose Comics.
Velvet Rasputin brand mature audience webcomics and graphic novels are published by Catnose Comics, a department of VAS Littlecrow. Velvet Rasputin is a distinct and unusual sequential art experience for audiences looking for mature audience webcomics and graphic novels that are unlike any other in the market. Influenced by Soviet, Latin American and Indigenous cultures, this project’s mission is to create entertaining, accessible and boundary-pushing sequential art fiction that encourages conversations about liberty, culture, violence, politics, sexuality and spirituality. Velvet Rasputin operates under the art direction of Reverend Vas Litlecrow Wojtanowicz.
How Velvet Rasputin Came To Be
Catnose Comics did not begin with a focus group or a bunch of corporate types trying to make a buck. We’re too independent and our roots are too underground for that. Ours is the story of a misfit kid who made comics to deal with inner demons for fun and profit.
I’ve been drawing since I was a young child, as a way to communicate and vent about everything that bugged me about life. I began working on “En el oriente”, the short story that eventually became SOUP Wars, at the age of nine. Initially it was just the story of a little rich Japanese girl and her ridiculously pampered life. An overwhelming fear of what seemed to be the inevitability of the Soviet Union and the United states, some really messed up situations involving sex, mental illness, my migration to the United States and, the agonizing erosion of Puerto Rican culture, transformed my work in a rather radical manner. My work became brutal, intensely perverted in an anti-erotic way, coarse and strangely preoccupied with the Soviet Union and the idea of the outsider. It was simultaneously infuriating and, embarrassing to me, as a teenager. Yet, this horrific art kept me sane through the nightmares of my dream world and my reality, so I worked on it compulsively. These dark creations were what eventually developed into the world of Velvet Rasputin.
I began creating zines, prints and mini-comics by sneaking into the principal’s office copier room and piecing my booklets together with needle and thread, back in 1989. These publications tended to be heavy in political satire, sex, violence and just plain weirdness. Family Circus or Garfield these comics were not. It was a hell of a lot better way to make extra cash than babysitting. Velvet Rasputin didn’t have a name yet, but it already existed.
Eventually, this clandestine operation of a teenage rapscallion went legit. ZNLArts produced free and mainstream regional entertainment zines like The Electric Walleye and Synergy back in the nineties. Both publications boasted a maximum circulation of 15,000 units each, and were distributed in four states and Puerto Rico. Some of our comics were also regionally self-syndicated. ZNLArts ceased operations in 1997. Out of its ashes, the Catnose Comics department of VAS Littlecrow was born and eventually Velvet Rasputin came into its own.
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