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SHIRTS ARE DONE! :D

Hey OG Benevolent Demons! T-shirts are finally readyyy.

I'm going to start mailing these out (beginning next week), so please let me know if you know your address has changed since you signed up. If you're unsure, feel free to message me and we'll get it all sorted out.

Thanks for your love, support, and PATIENCE on this xD

<3

J

On the Subject of Divinity

“Here you are Mr. George.” The waitress placed a steaming coffee mug on the table.

Henson George looked up from his newspaper and gave her a polite nod with an approving smile. He folded the crackling sheets of gray newspaper print and placed them to the side.

It was a Friday night, almost closing time, and the restaurant was nearly empty. He liked coming around this time becaus...

The Wise Wicca

First off, let me say this has to be my favorite stand-alone sketch of my characters that Daryl has made thus far. 

Second, meet Gam. She's Norman's grandmother and the leader of the Red Cove coven. 

When I first wrote her character into existence, I wanted her to be strong, confident, and highly skilled with magic. I didn't want her to follow that "wise old character type...

Regarding the Disappearance of Martha Walsh

Martha Walsh sneezed.

Dust scattered from the row of books in front of her, floating and dancing in the air like clumpy, gray snowflakes. 

“Shit.” She said, adjusting her glasses and wiping her runny nose with her handkerchief.

The 17th-century occult manuscript she had been studying was now covered in dust bunnies and mucus. Sighing, she cleaned and placed the manusc...

The Sword in the Stone

Concealed in the tall grass of the forest floor, a bush rabbit cleaned herself. The quiet hush of the foggy Irish morning crept slowly into the woodlands.

A subtle southern wind carried the fog to embrace the woodland critters like a blanket of cold mist. The ancient trees creaked and moaned. Their frightened spirits shook free of their bark, fleeing deeper into the darker green of the fo...

Cora

Cora is a character I've been DYING to introduce to this series. She's our lovable, lesbian pyromaniac and will be making her debut in Chapter 3 :)

Gamigin

Technically, this is my first personal sketch of Gamigin which is super strange for me. When Daryl and I would create my characters in his style, I had sketches of my own to show him as a base/example of how I wanted characters to look. 

But not Gamigin.

I think it's because I hadn't really thought of Gamigin's character until after we started Chapter 2 and I hadn't had time to...

Norman and Cal Sketchdump

I didn't have time to sketch anything new today, so I figured I'd still make a post with all of my own personal sketches of Norman and Cal from the past 2 years. I will be making two sketches for tomorrow to compensate.

I excluded some early sketches because damn my drawing was horrible back then, but I love looking back on all this and seeing how far I've come since 2017.

Thank you...

Nim's Halloween Habits

Nim likes to sit in bowls 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hocus Pocus 🎃

Idk I wanted to sketch Jazmin in a witch hat and this is what happened xD

Boo Bitch

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Comic Update 006 - 10/1/19

HEY COMIC FRIENDS

It's officially SPOOPY MONTH 👻

Time for all the demons and other shits to come out of the shadows to party! MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *insert cackling laughterrrrrr*

But in all seriousness, I love Halloween. It's my favorite time of year.

Kinda as an Inktober thing for the BKI Patr...

Comic Script 005 - Chapter 2, Page 49

Hello hello helllooooo

For this month's script post, I wanted to show you guys one of the Belphegor pages that didn't have any text bubbles on it. I love seeing how Daryl takes my writing and transforms it into something I hadn't envisioned before. It's so cool how writing is visualized differently for everyone.

Daryl really took this idea and ran with it, but it turned out so freak...

Patron Pledge Issue

Hey everyone,

It has come to my attention that some Patrons have been editing their pledges up to $5 so they can read the current pages, then readjusting back down to $1 so they don't have to pay extra. 

I want to reemphasize that I write and produce 100% of this story out of my own pocket so readers like you can enjoy the story, but I can't keep doing it in a financially susta...

Corruption

Norman's character has been one of my favorite things to write because I always try to change him. He started off as this cocky, arrogant straight-ish, masc character, but eventually evolved into the quirky and shy ball of embarrassment he is today. And I like him like that. 

I think Norman represents more of how I project myself in public: grade-A socially awkward. But I think what ...

Comic Update 005 - 9/6/19

Hello friends :)

Halloween is just around the corner and I caNNOT believe it.

For our comic update this month, here's what I've got on my schedule:

First, I have almost all of the shirts made! I'm just working on getting the last few printed, then I'll start shipping them out to you all. <...

Chapter 3 & Beyond | July-August 2019 Q&A

Hey Benevolent Demons!  

Here is July-August Q&A session. Sorry for the delay, my camera crapped out on me mid-august and I had to save up to get a new one.

Enjoy  

-J

Chibi Norman and Cal by Skitchwill :3

I commissioned @skitchwill on Instagram to do Norman and Cal as chibi. He did it for pretty cheap too which was super awesome :D

Happy Fan Art Friday!

-J

Comic Script 004 - Chapter 2, Page 50

Hey friends!

So for this comic script post, I asked on discord what script pages you guys wanted to see and a majority of people said they wanted to see the interactions with Bel and Cal. For the next couple of months I'll be covering those pages.

The first page that I wanted to share was page 50. I LOVE how Daryl took my script and made something above and beyond w...

The Beginning of BKI

Norman and Cal started out very differently when I first wrote out the beginnings of BKI. First, Cal used to be a werewolf, and Norman's name used to be Dom. They were going to fight crime as a supernatural detective duo/blossoming gay romance. Maybe it's the furry in me, but I love werewolf stories. I'm sure you could totally pick up on it considering I added the whole "soulmates" bit and how ...

Comic Update 004 - 8/2/19

Hey peeps!

For this comic update I wanted to open the floor for discussion, particularly the tiers system I currently have in place. I want to make some changes and I want your feedback to help improve and make the most of it. Here's what I was thinking:

First, I'm going to be removing the s...

Caster, Norman from FGO by Solkorra

I love the Fate anime series and the accompanying game, Fate Grand Order. Mostly because I'm such an anime and history nerd. The fact that the series combines both makes my inner fanboy SQUEEEEE.

@Solkorra on Instagram is AMAZING at the Fate-style anime and animation. She turned my beloved wiz-boy Norman into a Caster-class servant from the Fate series 😍

I can't stop gushing over...

Brothers

It's funny, Cal and Bel have always been brothers in my mind since the moment I thought of the key antagonists to introduce into the BKI storyline. First, I created the dynamic between Norman and Cal (their arc, story, development ideas, and eventual conflict). I HAD to start with my gay couple, right? I mean, they were the center of the story. After that, I wanted to dive into their character ...

Comic Script 003 - Chapter 1, Page 17

Hey hey

Here is the script preview for how I wrote page 17 from Chapter 1! 

This page really got to me when I was writing it. It was kinda a creative stretch for me because I wanted to create an incantation of magic, but I don't really have a background in Latin. So, like a dingus I wrote stuff down and eventually edited/changed a lot from this scene in terms of dialogue becaus...

Comic Update 003 - 7/1/19

Hey friends and fellow nerddddds :)

For this month's comic update I wanted to fill you in on a few brief things happening for the comic at the moment!

FIRST, Daryl and I have wrapped up everything we need and we've officially started Chapter 3! It's in production and is slated to be finished ear...

BKI: Hell and Stuff | June 2019 Q&A

Hi Benevolent Demons! :D  

Here is June's Q&A session!  

Thank you for joining my Patreon!! If you haven't already, join us magic nerds on the Black Key Incubus Discord Server: 2019-06-28 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Norman and Cal, DnD Adventurers by John Burke

Here's the first commission I've done for Norman and Cal :) 

This wonderful piece is by @magik_jack_art on Instagram. I've been playing a lot of DnD with my family on weekends, and I wondered what my boys would look like if they were traveling adventurers in the DnD universe. 

Norman is clearly the wizard, I mean duh lol. And Cal is like...an anti-paladin, except ...

Mirrors and Secrets

"Reflected" by Daryl Toh, commissioned by James Schleisman (Me)

The second BKI commission I had daryl create back in 2017. When he asked me what I wanted him to create, I knew right away I wanted to do a piece specifically about Cal. I had so many ideas in my head for how I wanted to portray him, but in this instance I wanted to show a bit of his vulnerable side.

Cal has a lot of se...

Caliban the Demon

Cal's character is by far one of my favorite things I've ever written into existence. When I first started writing about him back in college, he started out as a werewolf. Over the years I rewrote everything about him dozens of times, but the one piece that never changed was his name.

Caliban.

Derived from Shakespeare's The Tempest, Cal represents everything I love in Shake...

Comic Script 002 - Chapter 1, Page 11

Hi :)

Here is the script preview for how I wrote page 11 from Chapter 1! 

One thing that I loved the most about this particular page was Daryl really took creative liberties and flexed his artistic talents. While I did give him a decent outline for my vision of this page, he took it to the next level and added in a lot, especially in terms of paneling and adding emotionally cha...