NEWS!! January 2008

SEAURCHINS.NET is live and under construction. The archive will stay here, but the Urchins' new incarnation is being built at the new site, so check there for anything new, including the first Urchins webisode, in progress.

The first Sea Urchins story to see print in three years will appear in Blind Bat Press' Comic Eye. See the Comic Eye promo movie HERE. More news soon.

Click here for SEA URCHINS COMIC STRIP ARCHIVE

For nearly four years, the Unrun family sailed the Great Sea of Terrasfumato. Choice newspapers ran the strip daily, Monday through Saturday, and Plan 9 Publishing collected the earliest strips into a much-sought after, but now out-of-print, collection. Here, you can still read the classic strips and occasionally find news and new material. In case you were wondering...

... it's hard to be a family in a comic strip.

If you're in a family comic strip, you are expected to make jokes about taxes, pets that think they're people, school, politics, dirty diapers, what's on TV, computers, and messy kitchen mishaps.

But what if you are in a family comic strip that needs to know how to jib the mast? What if you are in a family comic strip that gets befriended by Gill People called Notticles that roam beneath the waves like cowboys on sea horses who help defend you against the tar stealing Eel Riders? Or you get chased by Sea Apes, get captured by Wijjicks, fight off nests of ship-sinking, plant-like animals called Twisters, and basically do whatever you can to survive living on the high seas of the fantastic world of Terrasfumato while still trying to eat meals together like a family?

Well, heck, you'd be an Unrun.

Welcome to Sea Urchins. Where a family in the funny papers can hearken back to a time when the world wasn't how it looks from over your paper or on your daily commute.

Sea Urchins, a strip for everyone out there who wants a little escape from the daily grind.