If you want the history lesson, Ownicon was created on January 1st, 2005. Chris, Keth, and Zack (that's me) were 15 years of age, wide-eyed with wonder and youthful trepidation. Well, Chris was 16, that bastard... Anyway, all three of us had functioning internet for the first time since we could remember. This was sort of a big deal for us since we weren't exactly next-door neighbors. We thought it would be a great idea to launch a collaborative project. We tossed some names out there but went with Ownicon, because we thought it sounded cool, I suppose.

The project, of course, was to draw comics. The three of us all draw way too much, so we thought we'd put all our stuff on a single, shiny-looking web site. Being 15-16, we decided to use Tripod. All of our comics were terrible and, thankfully, none have survived—Except Keth's, and we'll get to that. But not all of it happened on Tripod, either. We used a few free-hosting alternatives. All of them were pretty awful. The lesson learned is that if you want to have a good website, you've gotta either pay for webspace or know a guy with some spare monthly bandwidth to run up.

We got the domain when my brother Sam, also known as "zergstain", needed some webspace. He let me chose the name, so, naturally, I chose "Ownicon" for my own purposes. So, thanks, Sam. By the way, he's also our programmer for various things, making him the fourth staff member.

Christopher Laurier Rosier writes and draws the comic Triple Triple. Online he usually goes by "OSKmagnet".

Chris also has an earlier comic called Caffeine Chronicles. It's hilarious, but admittedly, perhaps in an "only if you were there" sort of way. I still cry laughing at them, which is more than I can say for the rest of our old comics. Anyhow, his new comic is sort of an attempt at a departure from those jokes and plotlines.

Chris draws with a Wacom Graphire4 4x5 tablet. He draws in Alias Sketchbook Pro and then assembles the drawings in Photoshop.

You might have noticed that both his comic names have been caffeinated. If you didn't, well, you should know that Triple Triple, in addition to referencing the three of us, is how he drinks his coffee... three cremes, three sugars.

Keith David Mclean is the author and artist of The Most Comic Ever. His online handle is "Keithito", but we call him Keth.

The name came from an earlier comic idea he had, but nothing came of that, so it's being recycled here. Keep in mind that Keth goes through more stylistic changes than a... than a girl. I kind of forced him to at least keep the name because I didn't want to change the URL of his comic directory on the site again. I'd say it would break some links if I did, but haha, as if anybody was linking to his old comic.

The first strip was actually a rough outline of the comic that he wanted to run by me first. I convinced him to just leave it like that, because I'm a cunt and I thought it'd be funny. I hoped it would turn people away from his comic before they even got to the second strip. So the second comic became me, as the editor, yelling at him to do a better job. And since he was the artist, he turned me back into that horrible thing from the first strip. This is a true story.

Keth draws with a Wacom Graphire4 4x5 tablet.

Recently he's also been working on Killing Time, a project with Andrew De Koning as writer, whom the rest of us have met a couple times. It's a pretty cool comic and pretty ambitious, so check it out. We're all curious to see where it goes.

You can also check out an old comic of his, called Tweaked Overture. This is that comic that I mentioned had survived from Ownicon's early days in 2005. It has a lot of characters in it that we don't see much of, anymore. It's also got my stuffed Pikachu that I've probably had since I was ten years old, or younger. As of 2008, it's still sitting in a drawer in my room with a bunch of tennis racquets and stuff. Keth occasionally teases me for having kept it all these years.

Keth doesn't drink coffee, because he was dropped on his head as a small child.

The author and artist of Pity, and the person who maintains this page, making me sort of a self-elected spokesman for Ownicon. My full name is Zachary Isaac Wilkins, and my standard interweb sobriquet is "Zackarotto".

The comic is called Pity not because the art is pitiful (although it sometimes is), but more because of this thing called the Pity Phantom. Maybe you'll learn more about him some day.

A lot of my comics were drawn with a cheap pencil on paper stolen out of the printer, and scanned on an obsolete Epson Perfection 1260. Howver, my new material is drawn with a Wacom Intuos 4x6 tablet in Photoshop CS3.

I've made it a goal to fail at drawing a 24-hour comic in both '07 and '08. The first was Torvus. I thought I'd call it "The Whimsical Space-Rogueries Of Torvus, In Space", but that's a bit lengthy. The year after that I did Starchild Conformity, a profound meditation on love and longing. Wait, no, that's not right, it was something dumber than that. Whatever.

I drink my coffee black as the devil and as sweet as a stolen kiss. Err, I mean black, with two sugars.

We're Canadian. We're between the ages of 18 and 20. And all four of the people mentioned on this page are SA goons, if that matters at all to you.

I put it together really quickly. It's not much, but it functions. Keth was going to design a better layout; he knows more about this stuff. He designed one, but it was a little weird and buggy. He's been in the process of making a shiny web 2.0 one for a couple years now. Hahaha.

When we can. We're all pretty busy, but we're always doing something for the site, the comics, or the forums whenever we have a spare moment. Listen, we understand the importance of having a regular schedule for comics as much as anyone, but we're simply not ready yet.

We're planning a few collaborations, but nothing has progressed beyond the idea stages.

We have a shameless-paypal-money-getting-button at the bottom of this page. It's kind of neat; maybe it'll pay for our internet hosting, maybe it'll net us some shiny computers. More likely, it won't. Picture the button now, with cobwebs on it from long periods of disuse. Why don't you click it?

You'll also see us doing something independant from each other, and independant from our regular three comics, every so often. Those things will be mentioned on this page whenever they happen.

Email us at keith, chris, or zack at ownicon dot com. Contact us if you have a problem, or you're just bored or whatever. Or check out our forum... which isn't actually public yet. And probably won't go public until we've actually drawn some comics and have an audience. Okay? If you're out there reading this, we don't believe you, so let us know.