About

Bad Lasagna is a 4-panel, gag-a-day style weekly comic about cosmic bureaucracy, awkward situations, emotional labor, and the daemons’ eternal battle to keep the scales balanced. The title comes from the idea that life – like lasagna – is layered, messy, comforting, chaotic, and sometimes a little dangerous.

Hi, I’m Cyn. This project is my playground for cozy-weird storytelling and maintaining a sustainable creative practice. It’s a place where edible boyfriends, cosmic auditors, period fairies, and ancient not-dogs all coexist in a universe that’s strange, sincere, and only slightly on fire.

Thanks for reading and being part of my experiment.

New episodes are served fresh every Wednesday.

Words and art by Cynthia Wright.

Meet The Characters

Harriett – The Well-Meaning, Chaotic Baker

Harriett is a cheerful baker who dates and eats confections. She also occasionally turns her boyfriends into confections because “it sounded like a good idea at the time.” Every incident tends to escalate from “mild inconvenience” to “cosmic incident report” in under 10 minutes. She considers this a skill.

Mr. Kelsey – The Ancient Not-Dog

Mr. Kelsey looks like a dog, acts like a dog, but is absolutely not a dog. He’s an ancient being, who silently judges Harriett’s choices while occasionally revealing powers he pretends he doesn’t have. He remains perpetually unimpressed with humans. He watches Harriett’s choices with the weary patience of someone who has lived far too long.

Echo Reciprius – The Cosmic Bureaucrat

Echo Reciprius (Pronounced: reh-SIP-ree-us) / (like “reciprocity” but with a cosmic HR badge) shows up whenever Harriett’s emotional decisions cause cosmic paperwork. They’re glowing, deadpan, and deeply confused by human dating culture, but they’re trying their best

Pam – The Period Chaos Fairy

Pink and bubbly, Pam is the supernatural embodiment of inconvenient timing, arriving uninvited the moment someone starts their period with dramatic proclamations and the wrong supplies. She treats menstruation like a cosmic weather event and believes she’s doing vital work. She’s the only one who reads the memos. Reading the room? Not so much.

The Confection Community — Harriett’s Dating Victims

Sentient sweets who are equal parts terrified and…thirsty, the confections adore Harriett despite her alarming track record. They form support groups, share warnings, and yet still insist they can change her.

Support for Bad Lasagna Webcomic

If you enjoy Bad Lasagna and want to help me keep making it, you can leave a tip on the Bad Lasagna Ko-fi page. Also, be sure to subscribe below to receive new posts every Wednesday via email. Thanks for reading!

Art + Resource Materials I use 

Here is a rundown on the software, tools, and resources I use to make a webcomic and to make art in general.

Want to support the comic? You can contribute to my art-tools wishlist on Ko-fi. Contributions go toward sketchbooks, pens, markers, and digital tools I use to create the comic each week. Thanks! Much appreciated.

Devices: 

  • Huion Drawing Tablet (Model: HS611)
  • Wacom Intuos Drawing Tablet – Small Size
  • Apple iPad Mini 6 to ink, color, and add text to the artwork.
  • Apple Pen (2nd Generation)
  • Zugu Case for 2024 iPad mini 6 & 2021
  • BELLEMOND – The Original Made in Japan Paper Screen Protector for iPad Mini
  • Cannon CanoScan Lide 300 Document Scanner

Software:

  • Procreate‘s preinstalled brushes: Studio Pen, Technical Pen, Dry Ink, Soft Brush, Medium Hard Airbrush, and the Round Brush.
  • Krita Digital Painting Software to create the comic panel layouts, I export the files as a .jpeg or a .png, and then import them into Procreate.

Fonts:

Analog:

  • Moleskine Art Sketchbook, Hard Cover, Large (5″ x 8.25″) – a nice travel-sized notebook for capturing ideas. Plus the paper holds up to ink, watercolor, or anything that I throw at it pretty well in my opinion.
  • Daler-Rowney Simply Sketchbook – 8.5in x 11in (hardbound) paper color: soft white or any hardbound or hardcover sketchbook of similar size and paper quality
  • Caran d’Ache Sketcher Non-Photo Blue Pencils – I use these sketch pencils to create a rough layout and sketch of comic panels. The blue pencil doesn’t show up when photocopied or scanned.
  • Derwent Drawing Graphite Pencils 9B – H (for sketching and thumbnailing)
  • Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils, Soft Core, 24-Pack in assorted colors
  • SAKURA Pigma Micron Fineliner Pens – Archival black Ink Pens – Pens for Writing or Drawing
  • Faber Castell Pit Artist Brush Pens (black ink) for lettering and calligraphy and also for inking in comics
  • SAKURA XNCW-24N, 24 Assorted Watercolors Field Sketch Set with Brush