Comic for Friday, May 17, 2013:
Recent News
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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Commentary
- Angel Nanase
- Burnout
It took me a while to figure out how to stage the first panel for this comic, mostly because I originally imagined it from a different angel--er, angle. I wanted imagery that went with what Ellen was saying, but I was trying to sort out the viewing angle from by where they'd been standing (you can see the window they were by in the first panel). I couldn't figure out a view that conveyed the apartment's scale while showing Ellen and Nanase without also showing the angel ornament before panel two.
Then I realized that a) the stairs going up are significant all on their own and b) this is a comic, which means EVERY wall is a potential "fourth wall" that can vanish at my whim to allow the camera angle I want. So I spun the camera around and got an "impossible" view of the room as though there was no wall right next to the Christmas tree BECAUSE I WILLED IT TO BE SO. Huzzah.
At least, I think that having more than one floor to a single apartment is a big deal. It's something I've only seen once, and I was shocked when I saw it. I was helping friends move in (it is, unfortunately, ridiculously easy to convince me to help people move), and we had to stop for a moment just so I could check out the second floor. I don't know why I was so impressed by it, but I just about thought it was the coolest thing ever.
I sort of miss going up there, to be perfectly honest. They hadn't even done anything particularly interesting with that extra space; I just liked it up there for some reason.