Welcome Circus Animals, by Bheckadee!
We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that a sixth webcomic has joined our collective!
Please give a very warm welcome to Bheckadee and her webcomic Circus Animals!
art by Bheckadee
It’s been a while since someone joined our collective! Two and a half years to be exact, back in May 2022 when Momo joined us with her webcomic, Preeny Has to Repeat 6th Grade. We’ve grown a lot since then! Not just us, but our community members as well! Our hearts overflow at seeing so many creators in our community grow alongside us. Bheckadee is among those ranks, debuting Circus Animals a little over a year ago. It didn’t take long for our community to sing her praises, anticipating each new page she posted in our Discord’s #community-comics channel. It’s no surprise that so many guessed correctly when we dropped a teaser hinting at a new comic joining our collective. We’re thrilled to have Bheckadee join!
Bheckadee has been drawing her whole life, starting comics in the 1st grade by making a strip called Sisco the Penguin. Her love for comics continued into middle school when she really got into Jeff Smith's Bone, which led to her creating two fan comics featuring her own rat creatures. Once high school rolled around, comics took a backseat for Bheckadee in favor of 2D animation. Entirely self-taught, she contributed to a number of multi-animator projects (MAPs). This of course included Warrior Cats, practically a right of passage for young animators, despite having never read the books. You can find some of her lovely animation work on her YouTube channel.
Diving head first into obscure, bizarro circus bands, Bheckadee did what all young animators do best; imagine music videos featuring her OCs. From these daydreams spawned the earliest iteration of Circus Animals. Despite her exceptionally busy senior year of high school, Bheckadee managed to animate an entire minute long musical short featuring her daydreams. Achieving this made her realize how serious she was about sequential art, and so she decided to major in animation in college.
Bheckadee joined our Discord around the time she graduated from college. It was a stressful time with no real luck getting into the animation industry, but witnessing the seemingly boundless creative efforts of our community filled her with newfound inspiration. She began working on a script for Circus Animals, dusting off the ideas she had shelved in order to focus on college. Animating the music videos she had envisioned as a kid was untenable, and so she returned to her first love: comics.
Bheckadee has been a beloved member of our community for over three and a half years now. Nearly as long as Foxglove Comics has existed! Her work has always captivated all of us with its refreshing energy and wonderful use of shapes. Her story motivates us to double down on our efforts towards helping the creatives in our community find their passion.
To find more of her works, or to read her comic, pay a visit to her page here. She is active on Bluesky and in our Discord server. If you would like to support her works, please consider becoming a patron of hers on Patreon. An upgrade and polish to her Patreon is in the works, but even now you can get access to early pages of Circus Animals!
In the meantime, grab some popcorn, take a seat, and enjoy! Circus Animals is sure to put on a good show!
