AMA/Question+Answer

Will we be seeing any feline predators soon? I'd love to see other species of predators! :D

TropiCat212

Thank you for doing Q&A. Can you tell something more about wolf’s culture? Are their packs usually built around family (it seems all wolves in Swift’s pack are related to each other except for Red and Scree)? Or perhaps bigger packs are a coalition of sorts (it seems that Singer’s pack has a pair of leaders and a number of adult pairs with offspring). Does the cubs need to earn their names in some specific way, do they have a ritual for this? Generally, anything you can share about the wolves in this universe would be interesting for me. :) Another questions is: are you going to create more mini-stories in your universe like the one about Oren and the One-eyed Wolf? I wonder if you are going to share more on Oren’s past e.g. the time he spend with the Conclave — he is one of my favorite characters, so I’d love to see more of this. And a general comment: I loved seeing your art process when you showed step-by-step for creating comic pages. In fact thanks to that I got an idea to try to color an outline on my dragon drawings. If you will have time, any look behind the scenes will be much appreciated. :)

Pantera

You've said that Oren's Forge is meant to be somewhat based on the time between the Paleolithic and Neolithic times. Do you have any recommendations for writing stories that take place during major shifts in the evolution of civilization, particularly in different worlds than ours? What resources do you recommend for research on the evolution of civilization?

Tori Sol

Did something precipitate this "higher level consciousness" in the species considered "sapient" all at the same time (since it seems like birds and fish thus far are not)? Natural evolution, or was there external meddling?

Arcticfox

What was the inspiration for the story of Oren's Forge? Was there any part of the comic that took longer to draw than you anticipated?

What are your favorite and least favorite types of animals to draw?

Wyn Bird

I second this question. Wouldn’t it be neat if a few of TG’s other non-commissioned works were a part of the same universe, several thousand years later? Perhaps (hopefully no time soon), when TG completes the story they intend to tell, there could be an epilogue of sorts, showing the fruit of the new world our characters gave so much to create.

What is the age of that bobcat that Hemlock was wearing? And if it doesn’t spoil anything how was she able to kill it?

Microgrampup

Has Egg already spent winters at the hollow? What did she eat?

Sarah

Do you have a specific sort of far future in mind for this stone/bronze-age society? Like what, if any organized civilization shakes out?

Tirosu