Answering some frequently asked questions…
Who are you?
Hey, I’m Kate Holden! I’m sometimes known online as Darth Mongoose or felicitousArtisan. I’m a comic artist, games artist and illustrator, originally from beautiful Cumbria in England. When I’m not making comics, I love painting Warhammer minis and running TTRPGs like D&D or Daggerheart with my lovely Mx, and I’m sometimes known to do a spot of online voice acting. You can find my artist site at http://kateholden.art
Does this comic use generative AI?
NO. NOPE. NOT A SINGLE BIT. No AI was used in the writing, art or design of Errant. This is a comic made with pure, human passion, imagination and countless hours of hard work.
Can I feed this comic to AI or scrape it?
NO! I do not give permission, and I don’t want to see whatever slop is made if you choose to ignore the lack of consent.
Is this comic suitable for kids?
I didn’t initially make Errant with kids in mind, but it is made to follow the content guidelines that were in place on online webcomic apps, so it’s roughly equivalent to PG-13. Any “past watershed” words are censored out (partially because I think it’s funnier that way), and I generally use The Simpsons as my guideline in terms of what’s okay to show for things like violence or nudity. I wouldn’t personally be recommending it to primary school age kids, but I definitely know of kids around ten and up who have enjoyed the series.
If you’re a person who believes that any depiction of homosexuality or transgenderism, even in totally non-sexual contexts, is “inappropriate” for kids, then you probably won’t think this comic is okay for kids. I personally disagree on that, but I’m not here to argue. Off you pop!
Any content warnings I should be aware of?
Violence and Blood: Obviously there’s a lot of fighting in this comic, so if you don’t want any depictions of violence at all, it’s not for you. There is occasionally a little bit of blood, and there’s dismemberment, but of demons who mostly don’t bleed or have internal flesh or organs or anything, or Cambions who bleed blue. There’s nothing graphic because I don’t like drawing it.
Sexy stuff: Sometimes, these characters will talk to or make jokes about sexy stuff, like finding people sexually attractive or innuendo-based humour. As I mentioned above, there’s nothing spicier than you’d get in The Simpsons. If there’s ever an actual instance of characters having sex, it’ll happen “off-camera”. There will probably be kissing at some point, but this is primarily an action comic, not a romance.
Body horror, dysmorphia and dysphoria: There are elements of this story that explore having your body change in ways you don’t want, or didn’t expect or ask for. Demons and magic swords can change people. It’s valid for this to be an upsetting topic, so content warning for that, but it never goes particularly extreme.
Death and skeletal remains: This comic contains references to death and grieving, and characters who may plausibly die or be put in deadly peril. Skeletal remains are depicted and there’s ghosts all over the place.
Autistic bullying and struggles: Jules is autistic, and this is very explicitly stated. I’ve taken a different approach from series, and chosen in the majority of cases to centre the discomfort Jules is feeling when there are miscommunications or loud noises or similar, rather than the discomfort Jules failing to mask their discomfort causes neurotypicals. However, Jules doesn’t live in a utopia where everyone perfectly understands, accepts and makes appropriate allowances for an autistic person, and so sometimes, people will be… pretty crappy towards them, honestly. This will NEVER be depicted as a good way to treat autistic people, but if it upsets you too much to read, or you just want to know to expect it, here’s the warning.
Alcohol use: These characters are all adults! They will occasionally have a beer or a glass of wine. Errant doesn’t condone depict, or make jokes about excessive consumption, drinking and driving or drinking underage, and especially alcoholism. There are no other drugs depicted; they’re just not relevant to this story.
Misgendering: Jules is a She/They, so technically calling them “she” isn’t misgendering, though they do prefer “they”. I’m bringing it up just so you know to expect it really. There’s no deep discussion of transphobia or trans identities in this comic. Some people are just trans, and like real life, most people, outside of a few arseholes are fine with that.
I want to show you fanart!
Fantastic! I want to see it! Tag me on Bluesky @darthmongoose or on Instagram @felicitousArtisan !
I want to show you a fanfic!
I’m really sorry, but I can’t read any fanfics. Believe me, I would love to, but I can’t because if you have accurately guessed what will happen in the story, or really nailed how a character speaks, and so a similar scenario or phrase turns up in the comic that was already in a fanfic, I would be liable for plagiarism if it was plausible that I had read said fanfic. So, stating here for the record: I would not read an Errant fanfic unless I’d stopped making Errant (but I’d still think it was really cool that you wrote one).
Do you do school or event workshops or panels?
Sure! I’ve run workshops for a variety of councils, charities, schools and events in the past. Please head over to http://kateholden.art for that side of things.
So I used to read this comic called Fan Dan Go and…
Yes. It’s the same comic! Kinda? I used to make a comic called Fan Dan Go in the 00’s. In fact, I restarted it several times (give me a break, it wasn’t easy to learn to make a comic from scratch back then!). Errant is a very hard reboot of it, so it has the same characters, but they’re all a little different, it’s still set in a sort of alternate modern Britain, it’s got the sword draw magic, magic signatures and a magic system inspired by the electromagnetic spectrum etc. Buuuut the plot is very different! Firstly, Errant really has a lot more of a plot than FDG did, because in the intervening years I read and watched the heck out of books and videos about how to structure a narrative. Secondly, Errant takes the obvious (in hindsight) step of tying the story about magical knights to the legends of King Arthur. I can’t say I recommend reading Fan Dan Go now, but if you did used to read it, hi! Welcome to this new version of it!
