Finally, a new version of The Journey is here!
The Journey Version 1.4 is out right now!
The Journey Version 1.4 is finally out!
The Journey has a brand new update out that we’re calling the Worlds update. We’ve reinvented the Worlds of The Journey, and in this update, we’re introducing World 1 and World 2, along with some new textures!
What’s being added? Well, let’s find out.
World 1 and World 2
New Coin Texture
First Two Levels of Driving Mania Mappack
OG Mappack
Now, we’ve got a little spoiler here, but Version 1.5 is coming out next month, and the price will rise! If you wanna buy The Journey at its cheapest price, you gotta buy it right now! You can either buy it at itch.io, Gamejolt or right here!
The Origins of The Little Pencil REVEALED! - The Little Pencil #2 Available Now
The Little Pencil #2 is here! Learn about the characters that appear in the second issue.
The Fruit Pencils? Captain Stars? Who are these people?
A brand new issue of The Little Pencil is available right now on GlobalComix and this very website! In this issue, The Ruler reveals the history behind the name “The Little Pencil”, as well as the history of the Government Agency “R.E.T.E.N.”. Meanwhile, Amy and Rose are on Earth searching for Ricky Haroldson.
But who are these characters? What do we need to know? Well luckily, we’ve got the details for you! Let’s go through the characters that appear!
The Little Pencil
I mean, we all know who he is, right? If you’re new to The Little Pencil though, let’s go through his history so far. Ricky Haroldosn first appeared in A Pencilly Halloween back on October 31st, 2022 where he was confronted by The PumpKing before being saved by The Ruler. It’s then revealed in The Little Pencil #1 that a day later, Ricky Haroldson’s brother, Frank went missing, and Dr. Steve Brown and Ricky went looking for him. They arrived at his lab, but he got into an accident turning him into The Little Pencil.
Now as The Little Pencil, The Ruler brings him to the Paper Planet. Find out what happens next in The Little Pencil #2!
The Fantastic Crayon
The Fantastic Crayon is The Little Pencil’s newest friend. We learn in the children’s book “The Little Pencil” that he was drawn by The Little Pencil, and helped him in his first war against the Erasers!
The Ruler
The Ruler first appeared in A Pencilly Halloween confronting Ricky Haroldson about becoming The Little Pencil. The Ruler knew that Ricky would become The Little Pencil, and just waited until it happened. The next day, he brought The Little Pencil to the Paper Planet. The Ruler’s also been behind the scenes throughout the years of the Fruit Comics Ultimate Universe… which you’ll learn about in these other character descriptions.
Captain Stars
Terry Thunder, the Co-Founder of R.E.T.E.N. is known as Captain Stars. Captain Stars has the abilities of the Gods, and at a young age got the abilities from an ancient Wizard. Captain Stars is the strongest member of The Fruit Pencils, and has helped save the World on multiple occasions.
Epic Pear
Epic Pear comes from the history of the African country known as Narfolk, and met the Red Comet and The Goblin King when they landed in 23 AD. Epic Pear became known within the country of Narfolk and was King Pears right hand man. Epic Pear later became a member of The Fruit Pencils.
The Little Pencil
Jason, otherwise known as The Little Pencil is the other Co-Founder of The Fruit Pencils. Jason is one of the few Pencil Objecticals in the world, with The Ruler checking in on him as much as he can. Jason and The Ruler work together in order to stop all threats relating to the Paper Planet.
The Beetle
From a member of the Fort Coehor Police Department to taking up the mantle of The Beetle from his father, Theodore Kent joined The Fruit Pencils under the Superhero name "The Beetle". The Beetle occasionally went over to Fieldham, in order to fight crime with The Fruit Pencils.
The Walking Fish
The Walking Fish was a secret weapon during World War 2. Coming from Atlantis, The Walking Fish was apart of a Black Ops team created in order to fight against the Nazis alongside other superbeings. The Walking Fish would later be hired by R.E.T.E.N., and would join The Fruit Pencils.
Make sure to check out The Little Pencil #2 right now!
“Never Ending Story” - The First Episode of Deconstructing The Loop is here!
Deconstructing The Loop Episode 1! Let’s discuss the first episode right now. Spoilers ahead!
This is your president speaking. Citizens of Loop City? You’re in for a wild ride. (SPOILERS AHEAD!)
The first episode of Full Story Productions’ Deconstructing The Loop is here! Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more, Deconstructing The Loop follows Greg Stevenson as he discovers a secret about the world he’s been living in the entire time.
At some point, an asteroid fell toward Earth, but luckily the president of Loop City was on the case! Some… machine… has been turned on to protect the city from impending doom. This machine sends the entire city into a never-ending loop of their last good day. No one knows they’re stuck in that loop, but what if someone did?
Greg Stevenson, a student of The Loop College happens to be watching a TV Broadcast from the President one night when suddenly, he loops back to the beginning of the day while retaining his memories from the previous loop.
What happens next? Well, find out in Deconstructing The Loop Episode 1!
Episode 2 releases in March, and will follow up on the second loop that Greg has gone through. Maybe, just maybe, he forgot this time round!
Today There’s a Blog Post Tonight!
What’s next for Paper and Games?
Who’s ready for news?
In the absence of Today There’s News Tonight (which returns of course in March…), we have some news to share about some of our upcoming projects! Firstly, we should talk about the thing we have coming out in just over 7 hours…
Deconstructing The Loop
Episode 1 of our new Audio Drama is out in just over 7 hours. Are you hyped?
Full Story Productions’ Deconstructing The Loop is set in a world where everything's been stuck in a loop, Greg Stevenson discovers that there might be more to life than boarding a train, going to school, returning home, and eating dinner and maybe there's been a secret the government has been hiding this entire time. Maybe "Loop City" isn't as joyful as we hoped.
The first episode is titled “Never Ending Story” and follows this simple premise: Greg Stevenson is a normal teenager who's fallen on some hard times. Recently becoming lonely, Greg walks around and talks to himself as he gets into worse and worse situations before realising that the next day will just be the same as before.
It will be available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Podcasts, iHeartRadio and more!
The Journey (Beta Version 1.4)
Pencilified Studios’ The Journey is getting a brand new update this month, and we can’t wait for you to check it out!
Releasing on February 12th, the first two worlds + the first two levels of the Driving Mania x The Journey Mappack will be available, along with several new textures added throughout the game!
We also had to announce a few days ago both the delay of Bounce Up! and The Journey, but that’s for good reason. We want The Journey to be as good as possible. But we did announce that Fruit Comics will be making a Bounce Up! Prequel Comic, so you guys better check that out later this year. The Journey Version 1.5 will be releasing in March, with Version 1.6 in April.
The Little Pencil
Our first full comic series, The Little Pencil is out right now! Well, issue one anyway…
The Little Pencil stars Ricky Haroldson as he goes through one of the most dramatic Halloweens of his lifetime before eventually becoming an Unnatural Objectical known as The Little Pencil. He is then mentored by The Ruler, and begins to live on the Paper Planet.
A new issue releases every month right here, or on GlobalComix! The first 3 issues will be completely for free! So you better check it out!
Coming Soon:
February 7th: Pears vs Apples Prologue #2
February 11th: The Little Pencil #2
February 12th: The Journey v1.4
February 14th: Pears vs Apples Prologue #3
Fruit Comics Weekly every Monday!
We can’t wait for you to check everything out! Now let’s deconstruct the loop!
Where Did “The Journey” Come From?
The Development of The Journey came from quite an interesting place… so we decided to tell you the full story!
The Journey came from a School Project?
Pencilified Studios is getting ready for the launch of their upcoming 2D Platformer titled “The Journey”, but it’s been in development for much longer than some people may believe. The Journey actually started development all the way back in 2019… and it’s quite the tale.
The screenshot above is from the very first level designed for The Journey, with the games original art style. Back in 2019, our CEO, Charlie was given the assignment in a class to create a 2D Platformer game, so that’s exactly what he did. But he didn’t want this 2D Platformer game to be like any other game, he wanted the game to have something unique.
Although Charlie is a huge fan of the “Super Mario” series by Nintendo, The Journey actually took a lot of its inspiration from the Indie Game series titled “You Have 10 Seconds”. Within You Have 10 Seconds, there’s a specific type of object that the player can interact with, which slows down the player. This object is glue, which is a pale colour. Charlie wanted to recreate this feeling within his game, but after coding it into the game… it just didn’t work properly!
Charlie wanted the player to be able to get unstuck from the glue with the press of a button, but once that was implemented, the character began bouncing using the momentum of the previous jump. At first, Charlie tried to figure out what the problem was, and really tried to fix the problem, but he just could not work out what the main problem was.
So instead of fixing it, he decided to play into the bug, and make it a feature.
This wasn’t the first time he had done this, as in an earlier game he made, one that never released titled “Just Keep Moving!”, the main goal of the game was to complete several maze levels (which you see as the final level of the original version of The Journey and in the upcoming OG Mappack), but Charlie accidentally implemented a glitch where the player would not stop moving after pressing the first button, but he really enjoyed the way it worked, so he made that the entire feature behind the game. Instead of having to complete a maze the normal way, you also had to pay attention to what part of the game you were up to. This made it a bit of a challenge.
The other time Charlie used a glitch to his advantage was in the very first game by Pencilified Studios, Driving Mania. Within Driving Mania, Charlie didn’t make a barrier around the play area, so you could drive off the edge of the map and fall into the endless skybox.
An earlier version of Driving Mania
So instead of letting the player fall into the endless void, Charlie implemented a secret area below the map, one that took up the resemblance of the unreleased Pencilified Studios game, Turtle Simulator, along with The Moon. The Moon was used as inspiration for the eventual addition of the Solar System within the main game during the Final Update.
But now, back to The Journey. This glitch that Charlie had accidentally made became a major feature in the game. Several parts of some levels ended up needing you to use your momentum. Sometimes, you’d need to do a regular jump, but sometimes you’d need to bounce, but watch out! For bouncing, you need to build up momentum! This was helpful because bouncing also made it so you couldn’t die to the spikes, so Charlie used it to his advantage, and that’s noticeable in the upcoming worlds that will appear within the next version of The Journey.
The Journey also went through a complete art-style remake once the game became bigger than a school project, as the sprites made for the original game were only supposed to be temporary anyway. Below you can see some screenshots from the original version of the game.
You may know if you’re a current owner of The Journey that we haven’t redone the texture of sand yet… but it’s coming!
Well that’s a complete and comprehensive look at the early parts of The Journey’s development. And in case you’re wondering, Charlie got an A+ for this assignment.
Next week we’ll be looking at the story behind The Little Pencil! Who else is excited? We are! Thanks for coming back to the Paper and Games Blog. See you next week!
The Creation of A Pencilly Halloween
The Creation of A Pencilly Halloween is pretty interesting…
Get ready for an interesting one!
The Fruit Comics Ultimate Universe all began with a promise, to create a thriving Fruit Comics Universe set in the present day with heaps of differing ideas and characters. But one project had to start it all off, and we knew just who to make the star of that project, and that guy had to be The Little Pencil. But we knew that we also wanted to actually show The Little Pencil’s Origin Story (which you will see in The Little Pencil #1, releasing on January 14th!), so we needed him to still be a human, which led to the main stars of this quick little special being Ricky and Rose.
One of the first things we did was come up with Concept Art for each of the characters that appeared within the special. Below you can see them. We also came up with the concept art on how they would translate into their Objectical selves. We may have changed a few things…
Ricky / The Little Pencil
Rose
Olivia
The PumpKing
We actually never came up with concept art for Frank… which is totally weird because I had assumed we did. I think we may have actually done it on paper when designing The Little Pencil 2: The Erasers Return… but that’s a story for another day.
Now for A Pencilly Halloween, we also had to storyboard some of the sequences for one of the animators on the project, specifically a lot of the camera movement sequences… and let’s just say they are pretty ugly to look at all things considered. But hey, maybe you’ll find them interesting!
There’s a few more storyboards we made… but you get the gist of it from this. If A Pencilly Halloween looked like this… I don’t think it would’ve been all that interesting, would it?
Well that’s the creation of A Pencilly Halloween! I hope you found it interesting to revisit A Pencilly Halloween just like I did. Well next week, we’re looking at The History of The Journey by Pencilified Studios. I hope you’re excited!
Digital Products, Today There’s News Tonight! - Paper and Games Fest 2024 (Paper and Games)
The Paper and Games Panel at Paper and Games Fest 2024 had a lot of exciting announcements! Check out the full recap here!
Paper and Games is back!
The Paper and Games Panel during Paper and Games Fest 2024 had a lot of very, very interesting announcements. Truly, a lot of different and exciting announcements were revealed here, which you can watch all right here!
Merch, Merch, Merch!
On this website, as you know, we have merchandise for our different projects, with the current store having merch based on An Appley Holiday and designs based on “The Loop”, setting up Full Story Productions’ Deconstructing The Loop and The Loop Universe.
The An Appley Holiday merch will be available until December 31st, 2024 and after that, it will be gone FOREVER. But don’t worry! At some point, we’ll probably do a refresh of the merch next year.
Well now, we can also announce that digital products are now available on this very website. Currently, there’s Fruit Comics’ The Little Pencil, The Little Pencil 2: The Erasers Return, Perimeter Patrol, The Red Comet: The Complete History and Pencilified Studios The Journey! You’ll not only be able to buy the products separately, but buy them in bundles too!
We can also announce the next 3 lines of merch we’ve got coming. In January, we’ve got the “Fun in the Sun and Snow” Merch line, which will have returning designs from other places we’ve sold merch as well as new designs based on your favourite Fruit Comics and Pencilified Studios characters! This will last until February 28th, 2025.
In February, we’ve got The Loop College Year 2! A refresh on our designs to coincide with the release of Deconstructing The Loop, an original Audio Drama series from Full Story Productions. The merch will release in February 2025 and will last until further notice.
In March, we’ve got the Team Apples vs Team Pears Line! Pick your team and show your support for either side of the Pear-Apple War, first seen in Fruit Comics’ Pears vs Apples Prologue! (And will also appear in Pears vs Apples releasing in March 2025, but that wasn’t announced when this presentation came out). This merch will last until Pears vs Apples ends.
You can use a discount code for Black Friday, “BFCM10OFF” to get 10% off any product on paperandgames.com, both digital and physical!
The Blog
You know the blog you’re reading this on, right? Well, do we have news for you. Starting in January, we’re bringing this blog back weekly! You’ll get updates, behind the scenes looks and more all from the worlds of Paper and Games. If you miss a blog post, don’t worry! Just sign up for our newsletter and we’ll let you know every time there’s a new post ready.
Today There’s News Tonight!
But, if you don’t wanna read the blog, we’ve got an upcoming show called Today There’s News Tonight!
Today There’s News Tonight will star two animated characters, Joseph and Stephanie as they bring you through the worlds of Paper and Games and update you on all information we have to give you, from the weekly blog posts to fun little segments every single week. The show will start in January on the Paper and Games YouTube Channel, with several segments being uploaded as their own videos too.
Welp, that’s all the news shown off at the Paper and Games Panel! Make sure to check out the other panels too!
The Journey, Bounce Up! and MORE! - Paper and Games Fest 2024 (Pencilified Studios)
The Pencilified Studios Panel from Paper and Games Fest 2024 had so many exciting announcements! Check out the full recap here!
Woah.
Let’s just start with that.
The Pencilified Studios Panel happened today, and a whole lot of announcements were revealed, and there really were some surprises, along with some mysteries? You’ll understand once you see it.
The Journey - Version 1.4
The very first announcement was that The Journey Version 1.4 would be released in the first 3 months of 2025! In this new update, the first half of the full game will be available, alongside the Classic Mappack. The Classic Mappack will be your way of entering the older levels from the previous versions! It was also announced that The Journey will get a price increase once version 1.4 comes out, but if you buy the game right now, you will be able to keep the game forever, and keep updating the game!
Right now, the game is $1 on itch.io and Gamejolt right now, and will be available right here on this very website starting tomorrow at 7AM AEDT.
Driving Mania x The Journey Mappack
The second announcement was that the previously announced Driving Mania x The Journey Mappack will be releasing alongside Version 1.4, and will be available in the game once Version 1.4 comes out! The game is all about collecting the broken gems while exploring open 2D Spaces that get larger and larger as the game goes on. It was described as practically being a completely different game hidden within The Journey, completely for free if you already own the game.
Bounce Up!
Bounce Up! was an original game announced to release on Gamejolt, itch.io and paperandgames.com completely for free. It’s a prequel to The Journey, and follows Bally as he attempts to escape the lab he was created in. The game is a short adventure, but it’s all about completing hard platforming challenges, and trying not to fall all the way back down to the bottom of the level!
The game will be available within the first 3 months of 2025.
Bally’s Journey
Bally’s Journey was also announced, an original short free comic series created by Fruit Comics and Pencilified Studios starring Bally in between Bounce Up! and The Journey. It will be releasing on all the classic comic platforms as well as paperandgames.com. Not much was said, but it sounds pretty awesome.
The Journey - Full Release
The Journey was announced to be releasing in May 2025! The full game, with all 8 worlds, releasing in May. It was also hinted that different skins and more mappacks would be added! How exciting?
2?
2? That’s all it said. 2. If you can work out what it means, please let us know. We’re just as confused as you.
That’s all the news at the Pencilified Studios Panel at Paper and Games Fest 2024! If you wanna watch it for yourself, feel free to right here on the newly launched Pencilified Studios YouTube Channel -> https://www.youtube.com/@PencilifiedStudios
The Paper and Games Fest is BACK!
The Paper and Games Fest is BACK!
Paper and Games Fest?
Our yearly Paper and Games Fest event returns on November 25th, at 2 PM AEDT.
This year we have 4 panels all focusing on different parts of the wider Paper and Games Sphere. We can’t wait to show you what we’ve got coming. The four panels will all be uploaded to separate YouTube channels, but if you check here, the announcements will all be here one hour after the panel!
Now, what panels do we have coming up, and what can you expect? Well, let’s see.
The Panel that starts it all off, the Pencilified Studios Panel will be available on November 25th at 2 PM AEDT. This will focus on updates about our game, The Journey, as well as other surprises! (That’s as much as we can say.)
At 3 PM AEDT, the Paper and Games Panel will happen. These will mainly be announcements about this very website. Updates about our merch, and other cool things coming up.
The next day, at 2 PM AEDT, the Full Story Productions will begin. This panel will mainly have some updates about our pre-existing projects, as well as new announcements from our partners, similar to the way we released The Namkaverse: Stranger of the Night.
The final panel will be at 3 PM AEDT and will be our biggest one out of them all. The Fruit Comics Panel will happen, where you’ll get updates about The Little Pencil Retold, The Big Bomb Guy and The College along with some other projects that we may have announced… and maybe at one point said were cancelled. We also have some new announcements in general!
We can’t wait to show you what we’ve got going on at Paper and Games Fest 2024, we’ve been putting a lot of work into this, and we know you’ll enjoy.
The Big Bomb Guy is FINALLY Getting his Show.
The Big Bomb Guy is Back!
This is what we’ve been waiting for.
Back in 2017, we created a show on the Fruit Comics YouTube Channel called The Big Bomb Guy. It wasn’t great, we’ll admit that. We were still learning HOW to make animated shows. But ever since we made it, we tried to reinvent the character of The Big Bomb Guy.
He became a character that could break the fourth wall, he could never die, he became a whole new character, so we decided to build a show around it. We called it The Big Bomb Guy v2. We announced this show back in 2020 and began writing it. However, we had a few failures in 2020, so the show kept getting pushed, and the Fruit Comics Universe completely changed by the time we returned to the production of the show. Hell, the entire Universe was destroyed in 2021.
We eventually continued The Big Bomb Guy’s story in other projects and thought we’d finally figured out what the plot behind the show should be, and eventually called it Reboots. The show was all about how The Big Bomb Guy doesn’t want to be rebooted. But we kept having delay after delay, changed it again to a film called The Big Bomb Guy Reboots… but then some projects came out by other studios that had an extremely similar plot (Deadpool & Wolverine) so we decided to go back in and try again, and now we FINALLY have it.
The Big Bomb Guy is finally getting his own original show, and we’ve worked it out, and it’s releasing in June 2025.
Starring Charlie Lyons-Morgan as The Big Bomb Guy, The Big Bomb Guy is thrown into a brand new Universe (The Fruit Comics Ultimate Universe) and finds the grave of The Little Pencil. The Big Bomb Guy is determined to bring The Little Pencil back and keeps running into other heroes on the way. The Big Bomb Guy meets up with the Perimeter Patrol, The Elementals and so much more as he tries to bring The Little Pencil back to finally bring back his original Universe.
Make sure to watch The Big Bomb Guy Next June on the Fruit Comics YouTube Channel.
The Little Pencil Retold has begun! (Again)
The Little Pencil is BACK!
2 years ago, we released The Little Pencil Retold… but we didn’t get it right. So we’re trying again.
The Little Pencil Retold stars Charlie Lyons-Morgan as The Little Pencil and retells the story of the original show we made back in 2016 to try and make the show make more sense. This time though, we’re going through the show, removing all copyrighted content we could find, and made the show our own. Finally.
This Season, The Little Pencil is up against Dr. Wren, an evil Spherical Robot attempting to control Earth once and for all. The Little Pencil teams up with his friends, The Smart Group as he decides to attempt to save the world. Join The Little Pencil, Epic Apple, The Magic Sandwich, Awesome Banana, Stick Figure Guy and The Eye every Friday as they stop Dr. Wren and any other threat along the way.
Also, join up with Amy, Rose, Dr. Steve Brown and more as they help The Little Pencil along the way.
The Little Pencil Retold Season 1 is out RIGHT NOW.
Watch Episode 1 here! - https://youtu.be/6aL5G98AF-Y
What is Deconstructing The Loop?
Deconstructing The Loop, a new Audio Drama from Full Story Productions will release February 2025.
But… what is it?
Full Story Productions is most well known for publishing The Namkaverse: Stranger of the Night and releasing two specials, Entering The Loop and In The Loop, but what if we decided to push these two ideas together?
So! That’s what we did. Deconstructing The Loop is an original Audio Drama set in a world where A Loop has taken over society as we know it. Nobody knows that they’re living in a loop except for one man, one man who has been counting every single Loop he can remember. Will this man stop The Loop once and for all? Well that’s what Deconstructing The Loop is for!
Make sure to check out Deconstructing The Loop in February 2025 on all the different Podcasting Platforms!
The Perimeter Patrol is Back!
The Long Forgotten Perimeter Patrol by Murphy Anderson is back!
Who ARE the Perimeter Patrol?
The Perimeter Patrol is a team of the World’s Best Heroes who set out to help all the planets on the outer fringe of the Solar System. Led by Captain Martin Hawkins, alongside Luther Mynot and more, the team sets their sails on saving the Universe.
Originally published by Ziff-Davis in Amazing Adventures #5 and created by Murphy Anderson, the Perimeter Patrol were left in the past to be swept up by the Public Domain until today.
Fruit Comics has republished the original Perimeter Patrol comic books to be available for purchase right now, alongside some bonus stories from across the Ziff-Davis Multiverse!
Who was Murphy Anderson?
Murphy C. Anderson Jr was born on July 9th, 1926 and grew up in North Carolina before moving to New York City to become an artist for a company known as Fiction House. Throughout the 1950s, Anderson began working at several other comic companies such as Ziff-Davis, Pines Comics, DC Comics and Atlas Comics, later known as Marvel Comics.
Over at DC, he worked on popular characters like Hawkman, Batgirl and Superman but it wasn’t until his work at Ziff-Davis that Anderson would create his characters, one of them being the Perimeter Patrol.
Throughout the 60s and 70s, Anderson would continue to work with DC on Superman alongside Jack Kirby, having to redraw Jimmy Olsen’s face several times as Kirby never seemed to get it right. Anderson also liked to hide his initials in every single piece of artwork he did across the multiple places he worked, so you always knew when you were looking at a Murphy Anderson original.
Throughout his life, he won many awards for his work in the comic industry, such as the Alley Award in 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1965 and also became a part of the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1988.
Murphy was married to his wife Helen for 67 Years and had 3 kids until his death on October 22nd, 2015 at the age of 89 due to Heart Failure. Murphy will be remembered for his amazing work in the comics industry, and for being one of the greats in the comic world.
Where can I find the Perimeter Patrol?
You can find the Perimeter Patrol Collection on Amazon right now - https://www.amazon.com/Perimeter-Patrol-Murphy-Anderson-ebook/dp/B0BV6XVDYJ
You can find the Fruit Comics interpretation of the Perimeter Patrol as a part of our Comic Strip series “Captain Martin” here - https://tapas.io/series/Captain-Martin
Where is The Journey?
The Journey is finally close to release!
Pencilified Studios’ The Journey is finally close to release!
Over the past year, we’ve released a few updates for our beta of our upcoming game, The Journey. Well, we’ve been hard at work over these past few months working hard on developing the game to be better than ever. We’re still in the middle of upgrading the game, but we’re pretty close to getting a complete game.
We at Pencilified Studios couldn’t be more proud of this, and we’re really excited to show you what comes next. Stay tuned.
Unknown Pencilified Studios Image?
Pencilified Studios released a strange image… what could it mean?
Uh… what?
Today, Pencilified Studios posted online an unknown image showing a folder that labeled it as “Unused Games”. What could this mean?
Over a year ago, Pencilified Studios announced the Simple Solution Collection, which was a collection of Unused Games from the development of The Journey, which is still in development to this day.
Could this announcement be related to that?
What is this…?
The Little Pencil 2: The Erasers Return is available now!
The Little Pencil 2: The Erasers Return is available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon and more!
Fruit Comics’ The Little Pencil 2: The Erasers Return is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and more!
The Little Pencil’s big sequel is now available at more stores than you can count… which is FANTASTIC!
Fruit Comics' The Little Pencil 2: The Erasers Return stars The Little Pencil and best friend The Fantastic Crayon as they go up against a threat like no other. Read as The Little Pencil travels the galaxy to find allies from different planets to stop the Erasers' threat. The epic sequel to the children's storybook The Little Pencil, Fruit Comics promises to deliver a creative story fun for the whole family, targeting a younger audience. Experience the world of Fruit Comics in an entirely new way.
Find the book available here -
US/Canada: Bookshop Thriftbooks Barnes & Noble
The Little Pencil is available for schools!
The Little Pencil series of Children’s Books is now available for School Libraries from Wheelers for Schools!
Fruit Comics’ The Little Pencil can make it your way into your School Library!
The Little Pencil as a story began based on another children’s book that Charlie Lyons-Morgan heard when he was at school, and now both Fruit Comics’ The Little Pencil and Fruit Comics’ The Little Pencil 2: The Erasers Return are available to be bought for Australian and New Zealand School Libraries from Wheelers for Schools!
This is a great opportunity to begin to learn the beginnings of the Fruit Comics Universe in a brand new way for a 4-12 target audience.
The Little Pencil follows a pencil named Ricky as he starts his new life on a piece of paper. The Little Pencil draws new friends and foes and creates the world known as Wanborne. The Little Pencil creates his best friend, known as The Crayon.
Fruit Comics' The Little Pencil 2: The Erasers Return stars The Little Pencil and best friend The Fantastic Crayon as they go up against a threat like no other. Read as The Little Pencil travels the galaxy to find allies from different planets to stop the Erasers' threat. The epic sequel to the children's storybook The Little Pencil, Fruit Comics promises to deliver a creative story fun for the whole family, targeting a younger audience. Experience the world of Fruit Comics in an entirely new way.
Make sure to check out both here: The Little Pencil Books
Company Goals
Hello again.
I know I haven’t been updating you for a while, but I thought I’d tell you about the company goals.
We’ve had a huge response to Full Story Productions’ Fishtail, which is quite insane, so I know we actually have attention on us, a small amount no doubt, but some attention is still good.
I want to expand, and I want to expand quickly.
Currently, if we look at Paper and Games, I (Charlie Lyons-Morgan, the CEO), control literally everything about the company. I control Paper and Games, Fruit Comics, Full Story Productions, Pencilified Studios and the rest of the company.
I don’t like that. I don’t like the fact that I’m controlling everything about everything. Of course, it’s good that I can be personally creative and control what the company puts out, but I know for a fact that I can’t do that forever. I touched on this a while ago, but the company doesn’t bring in a lot of money, which needs to change.
What I’m currently doing, even in my mind while typing this blog post, is working out a business plan in order to actually begin to pull in money to the company, so we can finally start having more than 1 full-time employee! (That would be insane).
However, I also know that we need to look at the past. We can’t just pretend the past never happened, it did. So, I want to be able to archive everything for our journey, and chronicle everything I possibly can, hence the Blog Post. These Blog Posts will never disappear, that’s the goal. Even if we transfer to a different website, these blog posts will follow with them.
So, Employees, we need you! But we also need enough money to PAY PEOPLE TO BEGIN WITH!
Thanks for reading, my fellow Paperees. Yeah, that’s what I’m calling you. Paperees. Does that mean anything? Not that I know of.
Yours in Paper,
Charlie Lyons-Morgan
Fruit Comics Stage One
Learn about the future of Fruit Comics in Fruit Comics Stage One!
Welcome to the future of the Fruit Comics Universe!
Here at Fruit Comics, we have been hard at work creating projects for Fruit Comics Stage One, and we’re finally ready to be able to talk about the entirety of Stage One.
Fruit Comics’ Quick Flick: A Pencilly Halloween
Back on Halloween, we were introduced to Ricky, Frank, Rose, Olivia, The Ruler and the evil PumpKing. This was the beginning of the Fruit Comics Universe and the beginning of Stage One. Fruit Comics' Quick Flick: A Pencilly Halloween follows Ricky and Frank as they try to make a Halloween adventure for themselves. However, it turns out that there's an evil Pumpkin that lives at the end of their street.
Fruit Comics’ Quick Flick: An Appley Holiday
Also back in 2022, this time on Christmas Day, we were introduced to the Rulers of the Universe and the Apple Royal Family. Watch as Father Apple, 2.000 years ago created the Apple Planet through an ancient material known as the Core Star, which he found, along with the rest of the Rulers of the Universe in the Stars of Flongdon where he met Gracie Staria.
Fruit Comics’ The Elementals
Recently, exclusively on Tapas.io, we’ve seen the introduction to a team known as The Elementals through comic strips. Meet The Drop, The Leaf and Superwind as they team up with Gracie Staria in order to figure out what’s been going on around Earth in these recent times. New issues release every Friday.
Fruit Comics’ Captain Martin
Martin Hawkins was a young boy on Earth in the 1960s until he got conducted by aliens and taken to a planet known as Rondos. In Present Day, Martin Hawkins has become the leader of the Perimeter Patrol and finds displaced humans from across the Perimeter of the Universe, and brings them back to Earth. However, something seems to be off. Fruit Comics’ Captain Martin releases on March 14th, 2023.
Fruit Comics’ Quick Flick: Fieldham’s Finest College
Meet Jayde as she arrives at Fieldham College for the very first time, two months after the rest of the school arrived. Meet some of her classmates, some of the bullies, and some of the teachers in Fruit Comics’ Quick Flick: Fieldham’s Finest College which releases on March 18th, 2023.
Fruit Comics’ Quick Flick: Rondos
Back on the planet of Rondos, the Perimeter Patrol and the Rulers of the Universe have to work together to fight a bigger threat coming to their planet of operation. Meet the present-day team of the Rulers of the Universe, and meet all new characters when Fruit Comics’ Quick Flick: Rondos releases in May 2023.
Fruit Comics’ The Little Pencil Season One
Now, the big one. After Halloween, Ricky has been interested in Objecticals, along with his friend Dr. Steve Brown. Dr. Steve Brown decides to build an Unnatural Objectical Machine which can turn any human into an Objectical. One day, Ricky’s brother Frank accidentally turns into an Objectical and is told to leave his house by his mother. Ricky also falls into the same accident and goes on the run while his friends, Rose and Amy are looking for him. Meet all-new characters and make all new friendships when Fruit Comics’ The Little Pencil Season One releases in June 2023.
Fruit Comics’ The Odd Cafe Season One
The Odd Cafe follows Sara, Loid and Damian as Loid moves into an apartment above a cafe, and gets a job to be able to go to College. Find out the drama that’s hiding behind the people who work in the cafe, and find out about some of the customers that go to the cafe. In an all-new series created, written and directed by Rōnin vi Indo. Fruit Comics’ The Odd Cafe Season One releases August 2023.
Fruit Comics’ The Fieldham College Season One
Catch up with Jayde as she continues her journey through the Fieldham College, as well as her friendship consisting of Little Apple, Zach, Jack and Kevin. Meet each character and go on crazy adventures with all of them as they try to figure out what the school is hiding about two kids who are missing, and how it links to the upper management of the school. Discover secrets that the characters have in this Mockumentary Comedy Drama show written by Madolvr with the story written by Charlie Lyons-Morgan when Fruit Comics’ The Fieldham College Season One releases October 2023.
Fruit Comics’ Quick Flick: The Ruler
The Ruler has been looking down at the journey of Ricky on Earth, especially after he became The Little Pencil, and is discovering secrets found within the Paper Planet. Watch Fruit Comics’ Quick Flick: The Ruler when it releases in October 2023.
Fruit Comics’ Epic Apple Season One
Epic Apple has been living on Blapple for all his life with his brother, but one day, his brother goes missing. Father Apple and Mother Apple are worried, so Epic Apple travels to Earth to find Fort Coehor, the sister city of Fieldham in pieces after an attack. Epic Apple assembles a team of heroes he finds from across Fort Coehor and Fieldham, consisting of a Donut named Hugo and The Drop as they go up against a threat that may be a little too personal for Epic Apple. Watch Fruit Comics’ Epic Apple Season One when it releases in Early 2024.
Fruit Comics’ Quick Flick: the News Anchor guy.
The News Anchor Guy, otherwise known as Luis has been a news anchor for BAF News for a while, but when many threats come to Fieldham and Fort Coehor, Luis finds himself in an accident. Fruit Comics’ Quick Flick: the News Anchor guy releases Early 2024.
Fruit Comics’ Job Search Season One
Hugo, Libby, Phoebe and Sabrina don’t have a job, so they go to the Fieldham Centre for Objecticals and talk to Jeremiah who gets them different jobs, such as working at the Odd Cafe or working at the Parks Department. However, as the series goes on, more and more drama begins, to the point where Phoebe and Sabrina become police officers! Watch Fruit Comics’ Job Search Season One when it releases in Mid 2024.
And finally,
Fruit Comics’ The Superhumans
Meet a young boy known as Terry Thunder Jr, who is the son of Terry Thunder Sr. who was the secret Captain Thunder who fought in the second World War and was the founder of the Government Organization, The Higher United Nations Defence Enforcement Reserves, otherwise known as T.H.U.N.D.E.R. One day, Terry Thunder Jr takes a magical train and meets Shazam The Wizard, who gives him the powers of S.H.A.Z.A.M. making him the Marvelous Captain Marvel!
Also, meet Dan Garret, a man who witnessed his father being murdered in Fort Coehor, which inspired him to become a police officer. However, he finds out that the justice system is too slow, so he looks up to the many heroes of his time, such as Captain Marvel and the mysterious yet powerful Superman, inspiring him to become the Blue Beetle.
Meet Epic Pear and Mr Pencil, two Objectical heroes who also looked up to the other heroes as they try to stop an ancient war between the Apples and the Goblins of Narfolk.
Learn the history of the Fruit Comics Universe in this story taking place in the 1960s in Fruit Comics’ The Superhumans!
The Superhumans will be the first Fruit Comics movie as it releases at the end of 2024.
Lots and LOTS of Work.
Hey again! I think I like just writing blog posts. Honestly thinking of bringing back the BYO Podcast just so can I talk about things because I have a lot to talk about.
Let’s begin with actual projects.
Fruit Comics. I just got my first OFFICIAL copy of The Little Pencil 2: The Erasers Return. I had a mock-up copy, but now I have a Not For Resale version! I actually have a Not For Resale version of both of my books, and I have a few things to change (the blurb), but it’s look a lot better than the first book.
Secondly, been working a little less on the Fruit Comics Universe. I actually now have a Writing Director, Ronin, who is currently in charge of the writing process for Fruit Comics and Paper and Games as a whole. As you may have seen on Twitter (RIP), I also have a writer for The Fieldham College, Madolvr. The Fieldham College is looking really good, I’m excited for you guys to see it.
I have ideas in the back of my head for ideas for Fruit Comics, along with a project that I just got pitched for a show that sounds like it could be interesting (no spoilers).
Full Story Productions. I released In The Loop. I released it quietly so I could begin working on Exiting The Loop, as I felt I couldn’t do anything more for In The Loop, so I added a song and left it at that. It’s almost the same as the version that’s on this website, but slightly different. The version on this website actually has an exclusive scene, so if you’re interested, check it out in the Exclusive Content section. I’ve also been pitched a show for Full Story Productions that I’m EXTREMELY excited for you guys to see. It’s a very big show for Paper and Games, and unlike something we’ve ever done before. So no, it’s not a comedy. I actually have a few other things that aren’t comedies at Full Story Productions, but they’re all early production.
I also announced a BTS series for Fruit Comics stuff. That should be fun, I already have a lot of BTS stuff from A Pencilly Halloween, so hopefully when we get to a full show it’ll be huge.
Finally, Pencilified Studios. I’m only gonna announce it here, but I’ve been hard at work to release The Journey on the Microsoft Store, so that should be coming soon.
Thanks for reading once again, and go buy some Paper and Games Merchandise!
Charlie.