Elliwiny: I’m not sure the hand tremor really conveys exactly what I was going for here. He’s nervous, but it’s not really about the plan or about Sara potentially being made, that shit he can handle. It’s more about what’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: Jack has this verbal tic that hints at his internal struggles that we sort of touch on in this scene, and I think we were originally going to like, get into it or make it worse on one of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: This one is my favorite of Jack’s shirts, I think. Starting off the week strong. I’m also laughing at my past self for insisting I spend hours rendering the planters in this comic, hahaha Sincerely: One of the other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: Yeah I wouldn’t stick around, either.
Sincerely: Die Hard reference count: 1 If you know me, you know that Die Hard is a huge influence for me. I could give an hour long lecture on Die Hard with no prep time. It is also canonically Jack’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: Sin really carried me on this spread, I’ll tell you what. So this transition page is the first of it’s kind, in that it’s an emotional transition instead of a literal passing-in-real-life style of transition. Sin came up with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: Wow, I should give Atticus more hats. He’s adorable! Sincerely: It was a wig the whole time! Also he colored his beard. Nobody appreciates Atticus but he’s really the MVP of this whole comic. Too bad we never got[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sincerely: We call this panel layout “the watchmen”. Elliwiny: I love ‘the watchmen’ panel layout for stuff like this. Before Opps, I did these flash cartoons where you’d hit the directional arrows to turn virtual pages like a slideshow. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sincerely: Like Elli said a bunch of pages back, there are a lot of transition pages like this to maintain the sense of space. I didn’t know how to write jokes yet but I think this bit is pretty good,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sincerely: Let’s talk carpets. Originally, the floor of the DuPré was just a deep red throughout but with Elli’s early compositions so open there was so much empty floor and wall space I decided pretty quickly to go back and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…