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For your consideration, the following information:
With the preceding tidbits in mind, hereby let it be known that, starting today, for the next thirty-five days (ending 7/27), I will endeavor to create one complete comic strip per day (minus Saturdays, as mentioned above; that makes thirty days, natch). Given my scant spare time, this means I’ll be attempting to squeeze the creation of each strip into about one hour (just like a 24-hour comic, but spread out more). I don’t intend for the quality of my comics to suffer, so that means I’ll have to come up with some creative new techniques to speed my process (which is sort of the whole point of the challenge). The bonus is that, after thirty days of this, I should have fifteen extra comics with which to bolster my strip buffer. Then it’s back to eating bon-bons. Twitter followers, please take note: I’ll post the net result of the previous evening’s struggles to my Twitter feed each morning. I’ll likely also make updates–though less frequently–to the blog. Wish me luck! :: 11 Comments... :::: Your Reply... :: |
 
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June 23rd, 2009 at 4:41 pm
*clap clap clap* You can do it!
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
I’ll be interested to see this unfold, and what you learn from it.
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Thanks, guys! I’ll give it the old college try…
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Oh, already picked up one tip today, watching Scott Kurtz draw: He pointed out the (very obvious to me now that he said it) fact that, although width on strips like ours may be fixed, height is not. In other words, I don’t have to try cramming all my text and pictures into the same height boxes if it would provide better results to just extend the height of the panels. Maybe not a win for conservation of language, but should save me time in trying to wrangle space a bit.
June 25th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
You can see the INSTANT in my own comics when I realized this… my comics all vary in length now, but the width is fixed.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
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