Archive for November, 2010
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I have always loved confidence in the face of mockery. Of pride in the face of humiliation. Of toys that go buzz.
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Part two of “Lawrence of Arabia” mayyyy be more interesting politically and about character, but part one is the one which gets the adrenaline going. It totally made me want to storm some castles. And to try to express that in a strip.
When I read this quote I was instantly repelled by it…. and intrigued.
My birthdays back then were kinda sad and lonely. I was never very good at organizing a party. And I expressed the isolation in the strip, but I don’t believe I was drunk and half-passed out on the floor. Well, not on my brithday anyway.
It’s a tough line to walk. It’s far to easy to sleepwalk through life, but I’ve never known over-intellectualizing to make anyone happy. But, at the time, I was going the over-intellectualizing route. Now, balance perhaps.
Cat’s mug reads, “Newt For President. Awake now?
This is one of those tough strips, where Bruno is frowning at her dad, but she is actually genuinely appreciative of her mother’s comment. Not sure that it reads as such. Ah well, difficulties of a single-panel strip with multiple word balloons.
Roosevelt became president in 1933, if you’re curious (I had to look it up myself).
So, yeah, Bruno’s gram never played a huge role in the strip. The area I grew up in, and even the college I went to didn’t have a large amount of diversity, and I always felt weird writing characters of different races who spoke like the white middle/lower-class kids I grew up with. So, I made Bruno 25% black.
These days I am not afraid to write different races, and i don’t pretend to write dialects or cultures (although I put in a nod or two). I just try to write human beings, and let the skin color be only that.
But it’s a tough thing. I wanted to be good, but I wasn’t sure if it was better to write almost-no diversity, or to write diversity badly. I didn’t know, and still don’t. But I do my best.
I had her work at the Moody Cow Convenience store because it was also the name I wanted to publish under. I later dropped it for the more innocuous and less interesting Good Port Publishing.
I think it was a somewhat parody of one of the old milk carton logos from Dairy Mart, which i can’t seem to find at the moment.
I think they’re standing on Boltwood Walk.
Not sure what to say about this strip. There it is. Follow-up on Amy. Randall being chosen because he got on the best with her.
Apologies can be all too rare, but it doesn’t always mean that they mean anything.
