Fangs (comic)
Fangs (stylised FANGS) is a romance webcomic by Sarah Andersen started in 2019. Andersen initially published the webcomic on Tapas, but has since published it with Andrews McMeel Publishing in 2020. Fangs follows a love story between Elsie Vamp and Jimmy Wolf, a vampire and a werewolf, chronicling the humor, sweetness, and awkwardness of meeting someone perfectly suited to oneself but also vastly different.
| Fangs | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Sarah Andersen |
| Website | Fangs on Tapas |
| Current status/schedule | Ongoing |
| Launch date | 2019[1] |
| Syndicate(s) | Tapas |
| Publisher(s) | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Genre(s) | Paranormal romance |
Overview
Fangs focuses on romance and the development of a relationship, with supernatural elements, additionally featuring "a simple, easy to follow art style with lots of deep blacks".[2] Comic Book Resources described Fangs as a series of "little vignettes from their life together and the idiosyncrasies that make each other perfect for one another."[3][4]
Andersen's webcomic primarily focuses on the relationship between a vampire named Elsie and a werewolf named Jimmy, who meet at a dive bar in Asheville, NC, have instant chemistry, and become a couple.[5][2]
Development
Andersen started creating and uploading Fangs on Tapas in 2019, accompanying her webcomic Sarah's Scribbles and her redrawing of Cheshire Crossing by Andy Weir, using a similar art style used for the latter. Andersen stated in an interview that she had developed Fangs during "[the] six-month period where I wasn’t writing Sarah’s Scribbles because I was working on Cheshire Crossing" as "[s]ince Cheshire was all illustration work and no writing, think I had all this untapped creative writing energy that needed a place to go and something clicked. [Starting] with the premise of “a vampire and a werewolf are sitting in a bar…” and at first it was very cutesy and slapstick and it evolved from there. I wrote the vampire first. I oddly related to the vampire lifestyle while I was working on that Cheshire deadline – nocturnal, anemic, particular. People often ask what “Sarah” would be like all grown up. In some ways Fangs has the answer." Andersen additionally expressed enjoyment in the series marking her "first time writing a man as a main character".[2]
In September 2020, Andersen is to release a print collection of Fangs comics, also titled Fangs, published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.[4]
Reviews
Fangs has opened to largely positive reviews by critics.
- Logan Dalton (Graphic Policy)
Sarah Andersen’s Fangs is low-stakes, slice-of-life romantic goodness with a dash of humor and Gothic/paranormal fiction. Its lead characters are honestly relationship goals, but Andersen does introduce little dashes of tension in the book like Elsie talking about how many people she’s killed and a random jogger hitting on Jimmy while he’s sitting on a bench. But, for the most part, this is Young Romance for the Tales of the Crypt crowd, and it’s nice to see a monster-on-monster love story without townspeople in pitchforks raising the hue and cry.[5]
- Samantha Puc (Comic Book Resources)
Fangs is [quite] different from [Sarah Andersen's] other work, but still employs her telltale style and humor. Jimmy and Elsie are immediately endearing and each moment shared between them feels genuine. There is a continuous storyline here, but each update can also be appreciated individually.[4]
References
- "Fangs: Archive". Tapas.
- Arrant, Chris (2019-12-18). "What If SARAH from SARAH'S SCRIBBLES Grew Up? Author's Answer is FANGS". Newsarama.
- Brittain, Rachel (2020-05-22). "15 Short Instagram Webcomics to Make You Smile Right Now". Book Riot.
- Puc, Samantha (2020-03-14). "Weekend Webcomics: Shapeshift with Fangs, How to Be a Werewolf & Night Class". CBR.
- Dalton, Logan (2020-05-20). "Webcomic Review: Fangs is a Wholesome Romance Webcomic". Graphic Policy.