Tony Esteves is creating Comic Strips
Cigarette-smoking rabbit - Beer-drinking goose
8
$100
Milestone Goals
3 Milestone Goals
reached
Are you THREATENING me?!?
This is SERIOUSLY crazy, folks! Cigarro & Cerveja come back from retirement with weekly strips. If this happens, where the heck was Patreon 5 years ago?
About
Cartoonist, husband and new dad.
Location
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Top PatronsSee all 8
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About Tony
Ever since my cousin taught me at six-years-old how to draw Garfield, I've never really put the pencil down. I started reading comic books at ten and fell in love with the medium. Inspired by Calvin and Hobbes, at thirteen I tried drawing a comic strip but didn't really find my voice. I drew my first 3 page comic story at 15 and felt this incredible feeling of accomplishment. I've been cartooning ever since in an attempt to recapture that feeling.
In university, I drew comic strips for the school paper. Metro 86? was an action-adventure serial comic in the hopes that I would be able to brush up on my style and build a portfolio to work for Marvel or DC. Unfortunately, it wasn't well-received and I moved on to create Cigarro & Cerveja, a humour comic. Surprisingly, I found my voice with C&C. I fell in love with creating so much so that I dashed my earlier ambitions of working for a major publisher aside.
About the Comic Strip
Cigarro & Cerveja is a comic strip about the zany adventures of a high-strung cigarette-smoking rabbit and a laid-back beer-drinking goose. It started back in 1998 for the University of Alberta paper the Gateway and transitioned over to the burgeoning internet of the late-nineties.
It was somewhat critically-acclaimed but not exactly financially successful. It ran for ten years and I retired the strip in September of 2008. Even though I put the strip to bed, the characters are a part of me and I find myself writing new strips every so often and posting them on the site.
Best/Worst Case Scenario
Depending on how you feel about money and supporting the C&C strip, Patreon allows you to support the comic ONLY when a strip gets posted. So if I continue to be lazy, you keep your money. But if for some reason I were to spontaneously become prolific, you may want to place a limit on how much money you spend (Which Patreon allows you to do). Although, I may have to assume that your patronage means that you actually want to read more C&C comics. I'm not entirely sure why but who am I to judge.
Thank you
I'm always grateful to hear from you and I am humbled by all the folks I meet at conventions that say they remember the strip. It's amazing to find out that I impacted someone's life so deeply that I made a gloomy day turn bright.
Thank you again.
-tony
Ever since my cousin taught me at six-years-old how to draw Garfield, I've never really put the pencil down. I started reading comic books at ten and fell in love with the medium. Inspired by Calvin and Hobbes, at thirteen I tried drawing a comic strip but didn't really find my voice. I drew my first 3 page comic story at 15 and felt this incredible feeling of accomplishment. I've been cartooning ever since in an attempt to recapture that feeling.
In university, I drew comic strips for the school paper. Metro 86? was an action-adventure serial comic in the hopes that I would be able to brush up on my style and build a portfolio to work for Marvel or DC. Unfortunately, it wasn't well-received and I moved on to create Cigarro & Cerveja, a humour comic. Surprisingly, I found my voice with C&C. I fell in love with creating so much so that I dashed my earlier ambitions of working for a major publisher aside.
About the Comic Strip
Cigarro & Cerveja is a comic strip about the zany adventures of a high-strung cigarette-smoking rabbit and a laid-back beer-drinking goose. It started back in 1998 for the University of Alberta paper the Gateway and transitioned over to the burgeoning internet of the late-nineties.
It was somewhat critically-acclaimed but not exactly financially successful. It ran for ten years and I retired the strip in September of 2008. Even though I put the strip to bed, the characters are a part of me and I find myself writing new strips every so often and posting them on the site.
Best/Worst Case Scenario
Depending on how you feel about money and supporting the C&C strip, Patreon allows you to support the comic ONLY when a strip gets posted. So if I continue to be lazy, you keep your money. But if for some reason I were to spontaneously become prolific, you may want to place a limit on how much money you spend (Which Patreon allows you to do). Although, I may have to assume that your patronage means that you actually want to read more C&C comics. I'm not entirely sure why but who am I to judge.
Thank you
I'm always grateful to hear from you and I am humbled by all the folks I meet at conventions that say they remember the strip. It's amazing to find out that I impacted someone's life so deeply that I made a gloomy day turn bright.
Thank you again.
-tony