Sweet and Sour Grapes
Lae was born with immunity to the warping magic of the jungle. Silas was a scientist unable to save himself or his friends from crude death. Together they cross the physical and spiritual world to protect the weak and spread understanding. Learn more about the characters and locations on the world page.
Sweet and Sour Grapes is an adventure fantasy story about acceptance of self, others, and life. This long-form comic contains some violence and nudity. Parental guidance suggested. New pages and vote incentives on Fridays. Please visit us every week!
Author
Diana Stoneman
Age: 27Hometown:Portland, Oregon
I first became interested in comics in high school when a friend showed me a translation of the Japanese manga, Magic Knight Rayearth. Soon after I was prowling import book stores and studying Japanese. In college I became a fan of online comics like Bill Holbrook's Kevin and Kell and RPG World by Ian Jones-Quartey. The accessibility and freedom of webcomics really appealed to me and I centered my senior project on launching Sweet and Sour Grapes.
Unfortunately for SSGrapes my other passion, Japan, commanded my attention after graduation. For three years I taught English to school children in the Japanese country-side with the JET Program. You can see original teaching materials I drew on my English Illustrations sub-site.
It was amazing abroad but I wanted to get back to comics. So returning to Portland, I relaunched Sweet and Sour Grapes with a fresh script and significantly improved art. My current ambition is to tell this story as best I can and become a better comics author. Thankfully my family and pet rats keep me from becoming overly self-absorbed in this task.
How am I doing? Please send me a message!