Introduction

Heathen City is an Ursa Major Award-winning graphic novel series written by Alex Vance and illustrated by a crack team of international artists.

Lushly detailed, full-color digital/traditional artwork and an ambitious, urban, modern story, Heathen City raises the bar for adult anthropomorphic fiction.

Violence, vulgarity, blatant sex and raucous gallow’s humor punctuate a challenging series of stories that’s only just beginning…

Vol. 2

” Paved With Bad Intentions “

Coming July 2. Pre-order and save $5 – buy #1 and #2 together and save $10!

The second volume of the award-winning graphic novel series Heathen City, titled “Paved With Bad Intentions”, has been a year in the making – and it shows. Four stories, half a baker’s dozen of the community’s most talented artists…

You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Where Vol. 1 (”Always on the Run”) kicked off a pulse-pounding adventure, this volume aims to broaden the scope, deepen the mythology and peel back the obvious to reveal unexpected layers of the story, and the characters that drive it… and introduce a vast new aspect of the mystery of Maranatha City in the process.

Illustrated by ZooshWolf, Krahnos, Blue_Panther, Vahnfox, Fel and Charha, with a cover by Kaji – the art team reads like a veritable who’s-who of the anthropomorphic art community, each one delivering some of the finest work they’ve done.

Without eschewing the raucous gallow’s humor and scintillating sexuality that helped make the first book such a success, “Paved With Bad Intentions” goes deeper and harder, exploring the intricate and often heart-wrenching decisions and circumstances that brought the rogue’s gallery of characters to where we found them in volume one.

“What It’s All About”

Illustrated and colored by Vahnfox with additional coloring by Charha

Mere hours before the phone-call that reunited him with Owen, Malloy was up to no good. Despite his yearning for peace and family, it seems he has a habit of keeping secrets that drive away the ones he cares about the most.

“La Lune Trop Pâle”

Illustrated by Krahnos, colored by Fel

The world’s oldest profession is not for the faint of heart, nor for the unresourceful. A beautiful moon over night-time Paris, a chance encounter with a charismatic stranger and some on-your-feet thinking is all you need to find yourself plunging headlong into a new destiny.

“From a Darker Place”

Illustrated and colored by Blue_Panther

No-one is born a monster, and a mother can’t help but love her child. But anyone who grows to be such a cruel villain as Tony Caulfield must have had a moment where  they lost their innocence… or had it stolen from them.

“House of the Rising”

Illustrated and colored by ZooshWolf, with additional coloring by Charha

Introducing Tiber Ferrum, a businesshorse in a corporate world dominated by carnivores. How does such a man maintain his sanity, when every natural instinct screams a constant symphony of anxiety and claustrophobia… and how the hell does he fit into the story?

Heathen City Volume 2: Paved with Bad Intentions will be available from July 2, and is now available for pre-order through FurPlanet!

Vol. 1

” Always On The Run “

Available now. Buy #1 and #2 together and save $10 until July 2!

Heathen City burst onto the scene in 2008 with its first volume, “Always on the Run”. Illustrated by Ayato, colored by Distasty, Krahnos, Charha and Fel (and of course written by the creator Alex Vance), the book immediately sold out during its debut at Anthrocon and Eurofurence, and went on to win the Ursa Major Award for Best Graphic Story of 2008. Read on to see what all the fuss was about!

It’s the year 2008.

Owen Zelazny, a handsome street hustler who’s finally found a reason to quit the world’s oldest profession, finds that the kind of life he led has a way of catching up with you. It was in the city of Maranatha that he became who he was, and the city, it seems, doesn’t want to be forgotten.

Chased by men willing to kill him for reasons he barely understands, Owen has no choice but to run, and run, and run. He knows there’s only one place he can run, one man who can help him. A man he turned his back on three years ago. A man named Malloy.

Together, they find their past coming back to haunt them, tearing open old wounds, but if they ever stop to let their broken hearts catch up with them, they’re as good as dead.

Heathen City is a struggle for survival in a harsh, sinful, violent urban environment. It’s the world we live in: cities are a tangled mess of plans and failures, ambitions and conspiracies. The rich brush against the poor, criminals attend church, mobsters and family men walk the same streets.

Heathen City is a story about sin and salvation, about the brutal consequences of innocent mistakes, the fatal fall-out of easy choices.

This is the world of Heathen City.