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10/13/07

As may already be apparent, there's a greater chance nowadays that on any given day AKOTAS will be done in triangles. I changed jobs this month. At my old job I was accustomed (on days I wasn't totally stumped for a joke) to draw, scan, layout and color AKOTAS at my desk during my lunch hour. At my new job there is a single PC for everyone in the breakroom, with no scanner or internet access. This cuts down my available time on a workday to do post-production on a cartoon by approximately the amount of time it takes to produce a cartoon.

So on a worst-case scenario day, a workday when for one reason or another I can't get rushes done on breaktime and the dinnertime and evening have scheduled events, it won't be till bedtime that I can execute the next day's cartoon ... and, chances are, at that hour I will probably assume (probably correctly) that I'm in no shape to create linework. Or, if (if) the breakroom PC is available but I know I'm busy all evening, I may feel obliged to execute in triangles at lunchtime so I don't have to wait till I'm tired.

Now, I like triangles, even if most of my readers seem to prefer linework. (You can get linework anywhere, you know.) I toy all the time, particularly now, with the idea of taking AKOTAS all-triangle all the time, but I don't expect to actually do it because for three and a half years so far I've created a reasonable expectation of linework* (and because I do have another venue for triangles). But I'll continue to reserve them as a safety net, and I may be requiring that safety net more often for the indeterminate future.

On the plus side, I'll have more time for reading.

* If I woke up tomorrow and it was May 2004 again, or earlier - well, that'd be different.

Webcomics I read mornings: Kevin & Kell, For Better Or For Worse, Tux & Bunny, Sluggy Freelance, Irregular Comic, Peanuts Webcomics I read M-W-F mornings: El Goonish Shive, Theater Hopper, General Protection Fault, Nukees, Newshounds, Girl Genius, Pibgorn, Ctrl+Alt+Del Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa mornings: AppleGeeks, Achewood, Kismetropolis, Malfunction Junction, Striptease, Punch an' Pie, Digger
Webcomics I read middays: Calvin & Hobbes, Least I Could Do, User Friendly, LuAnn, Pearls Before Swine, American Elf, Devil's Panties, Narbonic, Schlock Mercenary
Webcomics I read evenings: Scary Go Round, Questionable Content, Starslip Crisis, Anywhere But Here, Count Your Sheep, Goats, Dinosaur Comics, Girls With Slingshots, Shortpacked, Wapsi Square, Midnight Macabre, Help Desk, Real Life Webcomics I read M-W-F evenings: Two Lumps, Zortic, Order of the Stick, College Roommates from Hell!!!, Chainmail Bikini, Home on the Strange, Penny Arcade Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa evenings: The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Get Out of My Head, Dandy & Company, Darths & Droids, Megatokyo, Buck Godot Zap Gun For Hire
Webcomics I read bedtimes: B.C., Something Positive, Station V3, Sinfest, Little Dee, Sheldon, PvP
Webcomics I read Sundays: xkcd, Minus, Smithson, Something Happens, Three Panel Soul, Butternut Squash, I Draw Comics, Perry Bible Fellowship, Breakfast of the Gods, The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, Ctrl+Alt+Del Webcomics I hope will start updating again: Boxjam's Doodle, The Angriest Rice Cooker In The World, Casey & Andy, 13 Seconds, Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break, Li'l Mell, The Magnificent Adventures of Hieronymus Bosch, esquire, The Green Avenger, No Room for Magic, Reasoned Cognition, The Whovian Observer, Gossamer Commons See also The Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge, Talk About Comics, The Living Comic, Online Comics Day, The Belfry Comics Index, The Webcomic List, Mister Bloo, Nth Degree, 100% Originality Theatre, Brian Roney's Webcomic Reviews, Girls Read Comics (And They're Pissed), Fleen, Mr. Myth, Comixtalk and Websnark.

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.
Early British Kingdoms - Arthurian Bios
. 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.

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