Dec. 19th, 2011

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Last night we got up the last Mister Kitty updates of 2011 - if you aren't reading Shain's Element Of Surprise then you're missing out on a professional, entertaining modern romance-drama. Her work has never been better, and I'm not just saying that because I'm married to her and see how hard she works on it. The strip really does look great. On the other hand Zero Fighter is kind of blunt and ugly, but generally it's doing what it wants to do and I'm kind of along for the ride.

To be honest I'm kind of surprised I've been able to keep up the momentum of a weekly update. I need some kind of a deadline, even if it's self-imposed, to stay motivated to finish any kind of cartooning artwork, and it seems like a weekly strip that gets posted online where other people can see it - and I assume people are reading it, I don't look at the stats out of some kind of weird compulsion - is a good way to stay productive. I don't have the self discipline to lock myself in the studio and crank out page after page in a frenzy, my personality is much more do a little bit here, a little bit there. In many ways the strip has become a kind of therapy; I know whatever the week's been like, I will be spending two or three hours on Sunday listening to records and working on my strip. I actually get kind of antsy when I can't spend those couple of hours drawing.

And I know - "two or three hours for one page? One simple page?" But usually I'm going into each page with only the vaguest idea of what's coming next, which is something I borrowed from Shain when she was doing "Behind The Blue Door." What happens on Sunday is built right from the ground up, rough sketches, pencils, inks, the works.

Anyway that's it until sometime in January - we're heading South this week for Christmas, return after New Years, and then it's off to Anime Los Angeles where I'm FGOH and we're doing our Stupid Comics panel, among other things. We're not back until Jan. 10 so sadly, you will have to wait for your Mister Kitty fix until then

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