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10/13/07
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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 |
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
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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.
