Know what I mean, not what I say.
July 8th, 2012
So the website says “Updated Mondays”. But I’m having trouble getting the comic up on Mondays, particularly when summer weekends are so busy. But I don’t want to change that to “Updated Tuesdays”, because it doesn’t solve the problem that I run late. You’d just get the comic on Wednesday. You follow? So, the site says Monday, but you can probably expect comics Tuesdays. Unless I get it done by Monday. Point is, Monday is the target, and I may likely over-shoot it.
I had a wedding and a birthday today, so my inks are only just now getting done. I would expect the comic tomorrow. G’nite!
July 9th, 2012 at 8:27 am
Whose wedding and whose birthday? :D?
July 9th, 2012 at 1:37 pm
My wife’s best friend and my 2 year old daughter, respectively. My daughters were flowergirls in the wedding, so we were pretty involved. All in all my weekend was over before it started, but we had a good time.
July 10th, 2012 at 1:20 am
As long as you had a good time. Update when you can. :)
July 15th, 2012 at 10:18 am
Yay for weddings, yay for birthdays, and how about “updated once a week”? So even if you consistently go 8 days between updates, it’ll only “slip” every couple months, right? :)
July 16th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
Nah, it needs to say Monday for my sake. If I change it to anything less specific, I’ll miss the date entirely. I’d rather be guilty of being a day late, than have no target at all. We’d lose all sense of order.
July 25th, 2012 at 8:50 am
Drink the hand juice _now_. :D
July 28th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
As long as you don’t specify which Mondays the comic is updated, there’s really no problems (and if you update some other day, you can always say that it’s the next Monday’s comic, published slightly earlier),
July 31st, 2012 at 3:07 pm
I’m just curious, the art style has changed quite a bit since the first comic. Is there any reason?
August 7th, 2012 at 12:08 am
John S. –
The style of EVERY form of art changes as time goes on. The artist experiments, tries new things, rejects old things, and altogether tightens their skill. I first noticed this as the target demographic for Nickelodeon’s Rugrats, comparing the pilot to “Tommy’s First Birthday” (the first episode) to the series finale.
Rugrats pilot episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zsNcbPDyx0
You’ll also notice this if you watched Avatar: The Last Airbender. Compare “The Boy in the Iceberg” to “Sozin’s Comet”.
More readily, check out the first comic of Head Trip
http://headtrip.keenspot.com/d/20060303.html
and compare it to her most recent work
http://headtrip.keenspot.com/d/20120803.html
Seeing an artist’s skills evolve is part of the entertainment. :)
August 7th, 2012 at 9:17 am
Also, I’ve changed the process. In the beginning, I would pencil and ink each page on scratch paper, scan each panel in, color it. Then, after “book 1”, I stopped using ink all together, would just scan in dark pencils and color it using a looser ‘painty’ coloring style. Then we went to full panels, and the natural pencil started looking trashy, so I went to a digital inking solution. The comic is now inked in Manga Studio, and colored in Photoshop using a more hard-lined color method.
I’ll never be satisfied with my process, so it’ll always evolve. I like that it looks a little more loose and ‘sloppy’ these days. It makes me less neurotic about small mistakes. Sorry if it doesn’t have that same perfection feel from before.
August 14th, 2012 at 11:04 am
Perhaps it’s just me, but it still says “Updated Monday and Thursday” for me, not just Monday…
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