February 2012
25 posts
Lt. Potter and Sexual Harassment
I was originally going to go in a completely different direction with the Station/Lt. Potter conflict. My first idea was that she’d take the shares, cash them out, be ecstatic about her sudden wealth, and get drunk as hell, which would no doubt lead to hijinks of some kind at the party.
But the more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I got with that idea. Station’s offer of...
QA Dump #29
I’ve read on your website that you have a music degree. As as former music student who has since left to pursue other fields, do you have any advice for someone who spent that much time in the music world and ends up in a different career?
Don’t give up on music! Even if it’s just a hobby, it’s a skill and a pleasure you take with you your entire life. And who knows,...
Slow Progress
Slow Progress.mp3
This is what happens when I write music while high on Ambien, apparently
ART IS HARD
[from an email] What brush tool do you use to get your lines so clean?
I googled your comic (HAH YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE BEING SNEAKY BY NOT INCLUDING A LINK) and from what I can tell, you’re drawing it at the same size and resolution it’s being published at! This is a big part of why your lines look all funky. You should be drawing at print resolution- that is, 300dpi or higher- and...
QA Dump #28
How old is Dr. Case meant to be? Given the grey hair she’d appear to be at least middle-aged but you didn’t give her any wrinkles like you did for Marten’s parents et al. Does the stress of working with Hannelore’s father just make people prematurely grey?
She’s in her 40s, I think, she just went grey earlyish. I am 31 and already getting grey hairs :\
Sometimes...
How I Get Guitar Tones I Like
“How do you get that guitar tone?” is a question I get asked pretty often. So I thought it would be fun to do a quick walkthrough of my recording setup and the way I build guitar parts. We’ll be dealing entirely with high-gain metal-guitar distortion here, but a lot of the principles I use work equally well with other tones.
First, the gear: I use a Fractal Audio Systems Axe-FX...
The part starting at 3:00 is one of the most...
QA Dump #27
Do you think of the AI in your script more as “people” or as objects with intelligence? Do you even tend to make that kind of distinction?
I don’t make a distinction. If it’s sentient, it’s sentient.
Hullo. I was just wondering, are flared/bootcut/baggy jeans not big in America, or is it that you just don’t like drawing them, or that skinny jeans are your...
yoyochild asked: When you need to create a character, do you find it comes more natural than it used to? Like, are you able to just scribble up a character, or do you need to sit down and have a good think about what he/she will look like, draw up a bunch of different body shapes, hair styles, facial features, etc...
QA Dump #26
Hey! I’m a comic artist as well, and was wondering how long it took you working on QC consistently before it became a viable source of income? And do you file taxes on it? How does that even work?
I was really lucky and was able to live off of the comic after a year. But that is a pretty huge aberration- most folks have to plug away a lot longer than that before they start makin’...
hourlies
Here are some hourly comics, I will do two more later
