The Creative Process
It’s been brought up from time to time that Aric and I just wing this strip, what with how random it feels. And while I can say ‘we planned it all along’, it just really doesn’t hold water when there’s nothing to back it up.
While working on the comic tonight, I stumbled upon the original mockup for the website, which included a header graphic sporting some content that hadn’t been put in the strip yet. Since everything in this picture has made its appearance in some form, I thought I’d share it:
Lemmo and Aric are there, but so is the cookie guy (noticably different), and he’s holding the shovel. There’s also the imposter robot behind Aric, also fairly different. Plus, the fox was more of a person, or ewok or something, instead of the Socks you know of today. Lastly there’s Lemmo’s pet rat, which was scrapped altogether.
This image predates the comic launch by about two months. That makes it about 14 months old now. You just now met the cookie guy. Shows how ‘spontaneous’ we really are.
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:27 am
Take that all you fun-lovers!! HA! LOGIC WINS AGAIN!
wait. What am I talking about? I’m spontaneous!!
just playing :) I think it’s pretty awesome that you’ve got it so well planned and yet it still -feels- random. Now -that’s- art.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 am
LIES! You just drew that to throw us off the trail.
I’M ON TO YOU.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:21 am
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Something this chaotic and GOOD can’t just be spur of the moment.
Well, I guess it COULD be… but the lines, the conversations, the things going on don’t feel like someone just made it up on the fly. I mean, if you were just making it up on the fly, why would you need a writer? You just start drawing weirdness and finish up.
Anyway, fan back from Lethal Doses days. Keep up the great art dude.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Did the pet rat have a name? We could add it to the wiki.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Nope. That was just a brainstorm. It didn’t even serve a plot purpose.
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Bring the rat back!
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:07 am
That would be a dumb idea and serve no purpose, but everyone would look for meaning in it ’cause we are all analyzing the hell out of the comic.
Also I am loving that you guys actually planned out that bit with the shovel. Bitchin’.
July 6th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
IT’S ALL THE RAT’S DREAM! That’s why he isn’t showing up IN the comic!
I’m just guessing. I have no idea.
July 7th, 2009 at 7:46 am
I can vouch for the cookie guy being planned. I’ve been waiting for him to show up ever since FallCon. It’s been a long wait.