Comic for Friday, May 24, 2013:
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Monday, Jan 21, 2013 In celebration of eleven years of comics (and certainly not simply because the timing happened to be convenient and I've been eager to get to this moment), there will be five story comics this week. The sketchbooks on Tuesday and Thursday will be simple and likely colorized, reworded panels, but they'll still happen, too.
Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012 The next story comic will be Friday, and I am at least temporarily changing to a Monday-Wednesday-Friday story comic schedule with Tuesday-Thursday sketchbooks.
I was hoping to wait until next week to put this into effect, but personal matters have moved it up to this week. To be completely honest, I should have had this week be a MWF week from the start, but I was too stubborn to admit it to myself.
As for why I’m going to have MWF be the regular schedule for a while, there are a few reasons. One is simply that the MTTF schedule has been difficult to adhere to recently, and another is that I want to be able to work ahead more so that when I do increase the update rate again, I can keep it going.
What I really want to do is a MTWTF schedule, but that’s not happening without a significant comic buffer in place. I feel my best odds for pulling that off is to gradually work ahead while having a MWF schedule until I’m ready to increase it again.
I was hoping to wait until next week to put this into effect, but personal matters have moved it up to this week. To be completely honest, I should have had this week be a MWF week from the start, but I was too stubborn to admit it to myself.
As for why I’m going to have MWF be the regular schedule for a while, there are a few reasons. One is simply that the MTTF schedule has been difficult to adhere to recently, and another is that I want to be able to work ahead more so that when I do increase the update rate again, I can keep it going.
What I really want to do is a MTWTF schedule, but that’s not happening without a significant comic buffer in place. I feel my best odds for pulling that off is to gradually work ahead while having a MWF schedule until I’m ready to increase it again.
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I've likely talked about being the only sober person at a party before, and I will again! Just not yet. A future comic commentary can put up with me going on about that again.
The composition for this comic fell into place for me once I settled on Diane's general posing. I originally had her sitting up straighter with her legs crossed, which was horrible. I mean, it looked okay out of context, but in context it was bad enough to make my future self invent a time machine and travel back in time to stop me.
Incidentally, if the universe implodes, I apologize.
One might notice that Ellen isn't wearing shoes in this comic. This is another topic I may have talked about before, but I'm going to talk about it again (or for the first time; I'm not sure). Removing shoes while inside of a house or apartment seems natural to me. It's the policy of many people I know, it's what I ask of people, and it all feels like "well, yeah, that's just what you do" to me.
This is obviously not the case for some people, however, as I have been contacted by some people who have been confused by the characters always being barefoot or in socks around their homes. It's just how I, and most people I know, roll. I've been to homes where the shoes have stayed on, and it's always felt like I was doing something wrong by leaving my shoes on.