Book 1 – Ch.2 – Oxygen
Elliwiny: Ben’s only on one page in the whole comic but he deserves to be on the cover! Rest in peace, Ben.
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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…
Book 1 – Ch.1 – Pg.21
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…
Elliwiny: Machines seem to be one of those things that artists either love or hate drawing. I’m pretty ambivalent to them now, but I used to get really frustrated trying to render cars and guns – Luckily, this page is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: I would think that the smart thing to do would be to assemble the gun in the stall, but Sara thrives on danger. Public bathrooms definitely are one of those things that I didn’t think I needed a reference[…]↓ 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…
Elliwiny: Come on Jack, you’re going to be murder-voguing at some poor guy’s cell phone at the end of the week. Baron’s selfie habits are harmless! Baron kicking Atticus out of the selfie will never not be funny to me,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: You know, I think back then I was really nervous about giving speech bubbles room so that they wouldn’t overlap the art and overcompensated, which is why you see these panels that are maybe not zoomed in enough for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: I remember the purse X-ray taking FOREVER. I actually did a little research into what those machines see, and put the disassembled gun in there, mixed with makeup tubes, but also not being fully satisfied with how the effect[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Elliwiny: Sin and I agree that front loading all this exposition adds some friction to readers who are just starting out, but my real regret is all that empty floor space. We could have had more room for some more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…