Call for questions for a Q&A
Part of the reason I set up the Patreon was to be able to answer question for artists and writers and pass on a few things I have learned over 23 years of near-daily comic making. If you have a creative question, add it to the comments on this post and I'll round up a few over the next few weeks. You can also send your question in a Patreon message if you want. I really don't mind.
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How did you decide to have Hedy Lamarr become the subject of Destroy History?
Where do you get your crazy ideas?
What is the 'Bad Machinery'? 'Bobbins' and 'Scary Go Round' didn't mean much, but this sounds like it does.
Bobbins was meant to be a name for a strip that was like 'Peanuts'. Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery are the titles of records I had, I owned the domain names before I assigned them to series.
When you write a new storyline, does it usually begin in terms of a plot idea or with brainstorming snippets of dialogue/banter or a given situation or scene? I ask because your work does feel so dialogue and comedy driven, but your plots and emotional arcs always seems well thought out.
How do you keep your dialogue so natural and believable? It always flows so well, and with so many characters!
I see artist remake their work quite frequently. I remember seeing some redrawn panels by you (maybe for the printed version of machine days?). Have you considered recreating some of the vector looking comics from the mid noughts? Why/why not?
Is that extreme foreshortening or does Chudley just have a really big left arm?
Chudley is a character with one huge arm and one tiny arm. I am sorry to say that he is now dead.
I have so many questions so of course I can think of none at the moment. Except: 1.) Have you any general advice for writing comics? Resources? Top # lists of things never to do? Thank you!
1. How do you decide which of the 12 items on your whiteboard to work on next? 2. Do you ever get writer's block? 3. I lost most of my collection of your stuff in a divorce. Is there a single source of physical copies of your work? Or a list of where I could replenish?
1. Do you have any plans for Shauna? 2. Weirdest experience with.... I dunno, pizza?
1. No 2. I have never had a weird experience with pizza.