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Recording the creative process
The interesting thing about this one is that I drew it before I was done scripting it. The best block of the day for getting the drawing done was passing by while I was working on the script. But I knew what I wanted to accomplish with the gag and how that must play out visually (where most of my gags are much more verbally oriented), so I just went ahead and drew while I could and finished the script later. Sort of like those magazine or web contests with a captionless cartoon, or a strip with empty dialog balloons, and whoever sends in the best dialog wins a prize. Maybe the next time it gets to be drawing time and I haven't thought of a gag yet, I'll just draw something and fill in dialog later. |
Webcomics I read mornings: Peanuts, General Protection Fault, Achewood, Newshounds, Scary Go Round, Tux & Bunny, College Roommates from Hell!!!, Sinfest, Todd and Penguin, Kevin & Kell, Real Life | Webcomics I read M-W-F mornings: El Goonish Shive, Theater Hopper, Nukees, Girl Genius, Pibgorn, Ctrl+Alt+Del | Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa mornings: Digger, Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break, AppleGeeks, Orneryboy, Striptease, Penny Arcade |
Webcomics I read middays: Calvin & Hobbes, Least I Could Do, User Friendly, Questionable Content, Starslip Crisis, Biggest Webcomic Loser, Schlock Mercenary, Anywhere But Here, Narbonic |
Webcomics I read evenings: LuAnn, Count Your Sheep, Goats, Pearls Before Swine, For Better Or For Worse, Help Desk, American Elf, Loserz, Dandy & Company, Irregular Comic, Bruno, Shortpacked, Boxjam's Doodle, Sluggy Freelance | Webcomics I read M-W-F evenings: Reasoned Cognition, Two Lumps, Alice!, Order of the Stick, Gossamer Commons | Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa evenings: Casey & Andy, Girls With Slingshots, The Green Avenger, Get Out of My Head, Megatokyo |
Webcomics I read bedtimes: B.C., Something Positive, The Angriest Rice Cooker In The World, Medium Large, Dinosaur Comics, Wapsi Square, Little Dee, PvP |
Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthurian
Legend
Arthuriana - the
Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the
North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four
Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW -
The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged
entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble
Knights of the Round Table,
Volume 1 and
Volume
2.