What is The Golden Troupe?
The Golden Troupe is a webcomic story of a past life of mine taking place during the Achaemenid Empire 2,500 years ago, travelling around with my animal companions. Misadventures ensue!
My passion project, now compiled into book form in 2024 via Kickstarter, this story is dear to my heart. I was ready to give up on art back in 2017, but this project propelled me forward.
Thankfully, I have managed to finish the first volume of the story and am moving on to Volume 2. Stay tuned, this story will be a doozy!
Read the Comic
Now available to read The Golden Troupe: Volume 1 in full for FREE on your fav platform!
The Golden Troupe: Volume 2 will be updating soon on these platforms as well.
We hoped you'd join us, so we saved you a spot by the cheetah!
Are you the type of person who sees a horse snarling at you and thinks, " Oh bubby, what's the matter???" Good. You'll make a great addition to the Troupe!
Pick your fav Troupe member (or if you're feeling particularly adventurous, all of them): You'll get the inside scoop on the latest comic and video updates, entrance to the SLIPSTREAM to learn Troupe lore, make fast friends with other animal loving creative try-hards and instant access to the special tiers of Troupe Tidings! If you're ready, click here to become a full fledged member (Aspa won't stop looking at me like that until you do):
Morgh
1 member
$93.00 MXN per month (plus tax)
- Priority Papyrus 📜 - Read comic updates before the rest of the world does... finished full colour pages land in your inbox first. No waiting, no having to refresh socials like everyone else!
- The SLIPSTREAM🍃 - Lore-rich vignettes, writings, background scenes and world-building that expand beyond the main comic. Fair warning: some of it might make you feel things
- Troupe Tent ⛺️ - The group chat you didn't know you needed... fellow Troupe fans, shared art, unreasonable amounts of animal talk and a place to be a little bit weird about fictional creatures
- First Watch 🎥 - Ad-free and early... you watch videos before it's public, before the algorithm gets its hands on it, before anyone else gets to have opinions about it!
- Troupe Tidings 📬 - Art club from the Royal Road where you get a heartfelt letter, custom art and a little collectable- all in an email you'll actually want to open!
Aspa
1 member
$93.00 MXN per month (plus tax)
- Priority Papyrus 📜 - Read comic updates before the rest of the world does... finished full colour pages land in your inbox first. No waiting, no having to refresh socials like everyone else!
- The SLIPSTREAM🍃 - Lore-rich vignettes, writings, background scenes and world-building that expand beyond the main comic. Fair warning: some of it might make you feel things
- Troupe Tent ⛺️ - The group chat you didn't know you needed... fellow Troupe fans, shared art, unreasonable amounts of animal talk and a place to be a little bit weird about fictional creatures
- First Watch 🎥 - Ad-free and early... you watch videos before it's public, before the algorithm gets its hands on it, before anyone else gets to have opinions about it!
- Troupe Tidings 📬 - Art club from the Royal Road where you get a heartfelt letter, custom art and a little collectable- all in an email you'll actually want to open!
Qui
0 members
$93.00 MXN per month (plus tax)
- Priority Papyrus 📜 - Read comic updates before the rest of the world does... finished full colour pages land in your inbox first. No waiting, no having to refresh socials like everyone else!
- The SLIPSTREAM🍃 - Lore-rich vignettes, writings, background scenes and world-building that expand beyond the main comic. Fair warning: some of it might make you feel things
- Troupe Tent ⛺️ - The group chat you didn't know you needed... fellow Troupe fans, shared art, unreasonable amounts of animal talk and a place to be a little bit weird about fictional creatures
- First Watch 🎥 - Ad-free and early... you watch videos before it's public, before the algorithm gets its hands on it, before anyone else gets to have opinions about it!
- Troupe Tidings 📬 - Art club from the Royal Road where you get a heartfelt letter, custom art and a little collectable- all in an email you'll actually want to open!
Rioxia
1 member
$93.00 MXN per month (plus tax)
- Priority Papyrus 📜 - Read comic updates before the rest of the world does... finished full colour pages land in your inbox first. No waiting, no having to refresh socials like everyone else!
- The SLIPSTREAM🍃 - Lore-rich vignettes, writings, background scenes and world-building that expand beyond the main comic. Fair warning: some of it might make you feel things
- Troupe Tent ⛺️ - The group chat you didn't know you needed... fellow Troupe fans, shared art, unreasonable amounts of animal talk and a place to be a little bit weird about fictional creatures
- First Watch 🎥 - Ad-free and early... you watch videos before it's public, before the algorithm gets its hands on it, before anyone else gets to have opinions about it!
- Troupe Tidings 📬 - Art club from the Royal Road where you get a heartfelt letter, custom art and a little collectable- all in an email you'll actually want to open!
The Golden Troupe
1 member
$334.00 MXN per month (plus tax)
- The Golden Troupe: Vol 1 (Digital) 📚 - Yours the moment you join... the complete first volume, digital and yours to keep, for the fans who didn't just wander in, they moved in.
- Priority Papyrus 📜 - Read comic updates before the rest of the world does... finished full colour pages land in your inbox first. No waiting, no having to refresh socials like everyone else!
- The SLIPSTREAM🍃 - Lore-rich vignettes, writings, background scenes and world-building that expand beyond the main comic. Fair warning: some of it might make you feel things
- Troupe Tent ⛺️ - The group chat you didn't know you needed... fellow Troupe fans, shared art, unreasonable amounts of animal talk and a place to be a little bit weird about fictional creatures
- First Watch 🎥 - Ad-free and early... you watch videos before it's public, before the algorithm gets its hands on it, before anyone else gets to have opinions about it!
- Troupe Tidings+ 📬 - ✨ Secret of the Month!✨ Art club from the Royal Road where you get a heartfelt letter, custom art and a little collectable- all in an email you'll actually want to open!
Gift membership
Your gift will be given away live at twitch.tv/charreedart!
Characters
Below are the four stars of the comic. The story is about a past life of mine and you already know about me, so here's a little more about who's who in The Golden Troupe.
Rioxia ("Ree-ox-ee-yuh")
As of yet Unnamed in the story, Rioxia (as she will be known) plays a big part!
This leusistic king cheetah is quite special. Found in a pile of her brothers, sisters and mom who didn't make it out in the hot desert sun, a royal Prince just happened by and saw a speck of white in an otherwise beige landscape. She was rescued when just a small baby and grew to love her owner, learning many usefull tricks- like how to fetch the water bottle when asked! (I'm sure that never comes in handy.)
Friendly, but fierce when needed, Rox is the heart of the story. She keeps everyone grounded, checks on how everyone is feeling, loves new people (as long as they're nice!) and is a bit of a class clown.
Rioxia loves pooping on the highest spot she can, gorging on any food she catches, lounging in the sun and, of course, running!
Aspa ("Ass-pah")
That IS her happy face! Aspa takes a lot of pride and joy in her ability to cause mayhem, so she's actually pretty content most of the time.
She can't talk, but she'd have you know she doesn't usually go looking for a fight- but she will absolutely finish it. Aspa also has a little secret... We'll see how that develops.
Her hobbies are biting, kicking, killing, maiming... oh, and having a nice roll just after being bathed. She loves goats and hates sheep. Also, keep your stallion clear of her. She... doesn't like them, to put it mildly. Daddy issues, we guess.
Qui ("Key")
Qui is a pretty boy. The prettiest boy, actually. And he knows it. Of royal Saluki bloodlines, he only got passed off to some lowely peasant after his owner died aka how he joined The Golden Troupe.
Qui enjoys how handsome he is, people fawning over him to tell him how he's so gorgeous, when Aspa acts like a baby horse because she's so enamoured with him, running and secretly, VERY SECRETLY, snuggles right before bed.
Morgh ("Morrr'-ghuh")
Arriving to the Troupe as a Passage eagle, Morgh was born in the wild, but eventually he was caught as a young bird and raised into adulthood into the sport of falconery for the Royal family of the Achaemenid Empire.
He has the ferocity of a chicken skeletonizing a mouse when he hunts, so the royal family named him "Morgh," which means chicken. Good thing being called a chicken didn't turn into some sort of insult 2,500 years later or anything!
Morgh spends his time fighting Aspa, catching stray loaves of bread and ripping them to tiny shreds and punching people who try to touch his feet. Sometimes he's nice and doesn't get you with a talon. Still hurts though.
FREE Art Mail Club!
If a moody mare, a chipper cheetah, a sulky saluki and eager eagle sound like your new best friend group, then come on... We ride at dawn!
Join us on the Royal Road: A completely FREE Art Mail Club that allows you to stay in touch with the Troupe, get the state of the art correspondance that originated 2,500 years ago (with a modern twist!) and some special trinkets. If that sounds like something worth checking your inbox for, head over to the signup page here:
