About
The Une Papers describes the work of my personal legendarium. I first came up with the world I call “Une” (it’s pronounced “YOU-nay”) when I was in sixth grade. It developed out of a series of comic books I used to draw with some of my best friends. At their best, these comics were vulgar, satirical riffs on Star Wars, Pokemon, or Thundercats. But over time, I became more entrenched in developing this fictional world of mine. I made up a pantheon of gods, wrote myths, developed the histories of multiple alien races, and even attempted (briefly) to come up with a language unique to this world, complete with its own alphabet.
These attempts were grandiose, especially for someone of my age. Yet even as I grew older and spent less and less time in this personal world, I was never fully able to give up my passion for it. Early in college, as I realized I hadn’t written anything new about this world in years, I decided to go through all my old writings and drawings and organize and digitize them, hoping that with all my previous work archived I might able to look on the project of The Une Papers with fresh eyes and see how, as an adult, I could re-enter this world.
Though this archiving project has been more or less finished for years, it is only now that I am finally getting around to posting these materials online, which makes this website the first attempt I’ve made to share this work with others since the days I used to draw comics with my friends in middle school.
As I work out the kinks in the presentation of the site (and figure out for myself how to explain work that has for the most part existed solely in my imagination), I will do my best to post more information on the project and its development as well as some brand new writings and artwork. It has long been a dream of mine to bring this project to a fuller sense of completion, and I hope that this site proves another dramatic step in that direction.
These attempts were grandiose, especially for someone of my age. Yet even as I grew older and spent less and less time in this personal world, I was never fully able to give up my passion for it. Early in college, as I realized I hadn’t written anything new about this world in years, I decided to go through all my old writings and drawings and organize and digitize them, hoping that with all my previous work archived I might able to look on the project of The Une Papers with fresh eyes and see how, as an adult, I could re-enter this world.
Though this archiving project has been more or less finished for years, it is only now that I am finally getting around to posting these materials online, which makes this website the first attempt I’ve made to share this work with others since the days I used to draw comics with my friends in middle school.
As I work out the kinks in the presentation of the site (and figure out for myself how to explain work that has for the most part existed solely in my imagination), I will do my best to post more information on the project and its development as well as some brand new writings and artwork. It has long been a dream of mine to bring this project to a fuller sense of completion, and I hope that this site proves another dramatic step in that direction.
—Brice Peterson
