This is all beside the fact that comics doesn’t pays well for any caliber of artist, so the “great” ones probably don’t feel compelled to labor to draw a whole book/issue often.

That’s fine but I think you’re talking about something else. I agree, I do think it’s alway weird when cape comics/floppies have someone else draw their covers and someone else draw the interiors, it’s a sort of cat-fish, haha. Believe in your interior artists, damn.

I mean if you REALLY want it as a little treat, I would just stick to making the cover fancy-printed. Interior doesn’t need that treatment.

My LAST dumbass take is that people don’t need to print/bind their comics and zines so nicely unless it’s so long it would be unwieldy to print at kinkos and staple together. Your comic will probably look just as good in black and white, it doesn’t need to be riso’d. Save money! Make it zine-style!

Writing is HARD!!! Drawing and writing is DOUBLE hard, but I’m glad we have people like you helping hone the craft.

Another take is that superhero comics should stop coloring their shit if they want to keep up with manga’s output. It’s a conflicting feeling because I hate people (flatters, colorists) losing jobs but a lot of cape stuff is just as well drawn as manga, it doesn’t necessarily need color to sell it.

Also I love auto-bio, even the boring shit. It’s a marvel when someone decides to draw the most mundane thing, like why were you compelled to draw that? I stop at Instagram like-bait relatable-slop comics, though.

Oh lord… the more you know.

Omg

I heard you have to like, put a flame to it to make it detach?? And you gotta be careful not to break off the head or something? Yeesh.

Also I tagged you on insta posts of my boards, but idk if you have an art-specific insta? The one I found seems to be just old personal photos, I want to make sure that’s cool?

It’s supposed to be “coming IN clutch” haha how did I forget a word 🫨

Typos, man, I’ll never learn!!

Thank you!!! I’m glad you got to do this, you draw fashion so well and you crushed it!!

Yeah I think I went too hard on the last ep and it came back as punishment

Gonna look into downgrading to a much smaller cintiq next job so I’m not making such big arm movements. I got into the bad habit zooming in and using my whole arm to draw and ended up with a repetitive-stress injury in my shoulder. Take care of yourselves when working! Don’t wait till it’s too late!

I even dropped out of CALA because I had to chill on drawing! Feels bad, man, but I’ve gotta protect the money-maker. Hoping to get back into physical therapy but I also think drawing on a huge cintiq is that caused this, hopefully I will be okayed to draw on paper since I draw much smaller that way

Thanks for the heads up tho, I think I just have to accept things are gonna look different across multiple screens.