About:

Nomad Tofu is a comedic, science-fantasy adventure series that follows Pub, a mysterious weirdo who fell out of the sky and into a world of monsters. The comic began April 6th, 2009 and recently began a ‘Mondays’ schedule, though we hope to be back to a full Mon-Wed-Fri week as soon as we can wrangle it!

Nomad Tofu is the darling of Harry Myland (IV). He is known to be able to play several instruments and has an undying love of Muppets. He also enjoys cheese and cold weather. If you wish to email Harry for any reason feel free contact him at HMFour (at) Gmail.com, or drop a tweet @harrymyland!

F.A.Q:

So what’s with the title, ‘Nomad Tofu’?

Nomad Tofu is a way of saying Pub is the odd-man out. Pub never fits in, Pub never really belongs. Much like tofu, Pub can blend into his surroundings, take on their flavor if you will, but at the end of the day he’s still a piece of tofu floating around in a metaphorical pot of beef stew. And he tends to wander, so, he’s Nomad Tofu.

What is Pub? We don’t know. He does, but we don’t. For now we can take great pleasure in calling him a Weirdo, or a Whatever, much like the Great Gonzo. What can be said about Pub is that he is myysstteerious. Pub has-a-past and for now it’s better that we don’t ask him about it. But we’ll find out what his deal is one day… maybe when he gets a minute away from being chased by horrible scary monsters.

How is Nomad Tofu created?

Nomad Tofu is scripted and thumb-nailed in sketchbooks. It is then laid out in this amazing 9×12 Canson XL Series Mix Media Sketchpad and measured to 7×11 with 1/32″ bleeds, after which it is drawn in pencil and scanned into a computer using an EPSON STYLUS CX4600. It is inked in Photoshop CS2 CS5 using a 4×5 WACOM intuos4 small WACOM tablet. Recently Harry began using the writing tool/organizer Scrivener and won’t shut up about how great he thinks it is.

How long does it take to produce a single page?

The earlier strips took no more than a few hours. The later (and latest) pages clock at a going rate of about an hour per panel, give or take depending on the panel’s complexity.

Any influences?

Nomad Tofu’s main influence is probably Jim Henson. Artist influences are wide and varied, but include folks like Jeff Smith, Charles Schulz, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Meredith Gran, Bruce Timm, Mike Maihack, Bill Watterson, Cyril Pedrosa, Kate Beaton, the boys of Halfpixel and many others!

The World of Nomad Tofu:

For additional information on characters, items, locations and more! All set in a neat-o trading card format! (Not necessary to enjoy the comic. Occasional world-building information is included that has yet to or may not appear in the comic.)

All set? Good, head on over to the Storyguide and start reading!