When I first drew the "no man but my husband" gag I
managed to forget between the sixth and eighth panels that the whole point of
the exercise is that Isolde's hands are bound. This version of the eighth
panel actually appeared on the website for about sixteen hours before I
realized the mistake and corrected it.
This cartoon was originally written for the end of the first contemporary
arc week, but despite some waffling was never used because it's a spoiler for
the first anniversary revelation (assuming Arthur,
King of Time and Space had any readers who didn't already know this).
Often when otherwise stumped for a gag for the day, I'll swipe a gag, and
remove it, from the fanfiction Dailies archive. Usually this entails
substantial rewriting, recasting, etc. The two cartoons below are remarkable,
I think, not in how much was changed but in how much wasn't changed.
The first time I was solicited for a guest strip by another webcomic was by
Ferrett Steinmetz' and Roni Pare's
Home on the Strange.
I participated in the 2006 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards ceremony (even though I
don't participate in the WCCA process because of a prejudice that is uniquely
mine and no fault of theirs, described
here).
I did this in Flash instead of in MSPaint. You dress up when you go to these
things.
(The actual winner announcement is in the text of
the ceremony site page where this strip appears.) (It was
Inverloch.)
The second time I was solicited for a guest strip by another webcomic was by
David Morgan-Mar's Irregular Webcomic!. I was going to write a
fantastic crossover gag between his comic and mine, on the hook that both
umbrella multiple timezones, his with different characters in each and mine
with the same characters in each; and how the recent time traveling plot in
his allowed his characters to realize that about mine when my character's
don't. But I couldn't think of a premise for a punchline to hang it on. So
instead I called on another artistic preference we share and and drew a pun.
Jodie Troutman of divers previous webcartoon efforts was solicting guest strips
for LitBrick,
where she riffs weekdaily on the works collected in the Norton Anthology of
English Literature. The drill for guest strips at LitBrick is for the
guest artist to riff on a favorite book of their own. I contrived to draw a
crossover.
