MAKING A PAGE — PANEL BY PANEL

Don’t break the CHAIN! This post/video is the real thing: me building a page of FUGLY from the ground up—panel by panel, mistake by mistake. No polish. No highlight reel. Just rough layouts, ugly sketches, rewrites, second-guessing, fixes, and all the tiny decisions that quietly decide whether a page works or dies on the table. (time-lapse version) I’m sharing this here because this is where comics actually live—in the process. Patreon isn’t just for finished art; it’s for the thinking, the false starts, and the problem-solving that happens long before a page looks “clean.” This page is still becoming itself, and honestly, that’s the whole point. FUGLY follows a man with the worst job in the superhuman world: he collects money from heroes and villains alike. Not souls. Not secrets. Damage.Cities wrecked. Blocks leveled. Cars melted by laser eyes. Somebody foots the bill—and that somebody is him. “Bad or good.Hero or villain.Laser eyes or super science.If you owe, you pay.” That idea drives everything—how the pages flow, how the jokes land, where the tension lives. Watching this page come together feels like turning the key on the entire series. Thanks for being here at this stage. Supporting the making—not just the finished thing—is how projects like this survive. More pages, more sketches, and more behind-the-scenes chaos coming soon as FUGLY ramps up toward its March launch. 🖤 — JuanFWACATA Get full access to FWACATA’s Newsletter at www.fwacata.com/subscribe