About the Comic
Crash and Burn started with Finn and a handful of friends way back in 2013, in love with sci-fi adventure but livid that it seemed everyone’s imagination stopped short of including queer people – or really, anyone except the same grizzled white dude. This webcomic was our playground, and our attempt to build our own story where we’re allowed to be the protagonists.
Kate came on board shortly after we started publishing online in 2014 and really got us off the ground – we started publishing in print in 2015. It’s a sci-fi epic; it should be around 18 chapters when it’s all said and done.
On hiatus – updates when possible.
cbcomic is also…
Two albums of original music by queer artists.
A community of fans, tv tropes nerds, artists, and fanfic writers.
About the Creators
Finn Lucullan
Finn Lucullan is an illustrator, writer, and designer – and a jack of all trades. They illustrate and co-write award-nominated Crash and Burn Comic, a queer space opera, as well as smaller comics projects ranging from D&D highlights to demonic love stories.
Kate Larking
Kate has never been without stories. During the day, she works for an independent publisher. In her off hours, between binge-watching anime and leveling-up game characters, she writes speculative fiction for both YA and adult markets. Her queer space opera comic, Crash and Burn, has been a four-time finalist for the Aurora Award for best English Graphic Novel. She resides in Calgary, AB with her wife, daughter, and cats.
Media, Awards & Interviews
Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association
Want to get into comics? 15 great Canadian books to get you started
CBC Books
We Need More Queer Webcomics Like Crash and Burn in Our Lives
Pride.com
Gay Calgary Magazine
An Injustice! Mag
In the not-so-distant future, tensions between humanity and the ornos — a genderless race of bird-like aliens — are running high. When the H.S.V. Concord, a ship bearing both the ornos’ imperial heir apparent and a group of human peace keepers, disappears in uncharted space, it seems inevitable that the two species will go to war.
But, unknown to those in charge, a small group has survived the crash of the Concord. Led by Cora, one of the human survivors, the group must figure out how to get along, and how to get home… before both their worlds, as they know them, come to an end.
Updates biweekly.