For my new comic I’ve decided to take a little different approach compared to my previous work. I guess I’m deconstructing things a bit because when I first dove into comics with FRIK, each episode was 10-12 panels. Then I made HOLES IN IT, which was 6 panels. Now for the new comic it will be 3 panels.
This currently untitled comic will be more akin to a “joke a day” comic, and because it’s 3 panels, that means writing scripts for it is incredibly fast. As I’m still in the process of sketching out character design, I decided to start writing the scripts to see where it takes me.
I plan for this new comic to be released twice a week, which means I need a much bigger buffer of finished comics in case something happens and I can’t work on it for a bit. As of last night I’ve written the 40th episode, and as you can see from the photo, that’s 5 months worth of comics right there.
Heck, I haven’t even figured out what the character names are minus one, so I’m using temp names just to keep things organized. I was originally going to call this LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR, but then I realized rather quickly that there’s already another comic by the same name. Back to the drawing board on that.
As far as how I will create it, I’m leaning towards it being traditionally made by hand 100%. With my first two comics I would draw it out, then scan it, then finish everything digitally. With this one I’m thinking of keeping it all hand made, but I’ll know more when I get into it. I love working digital, so it will be hard to get back into the groove of a fully hand made comic.
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