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Freebird: still plugging away
Um, hi. *waves* Freebird is coming along; I've finished a ton of minor edits and 30 new strips for the book (20 strips plus a 10-page backup story), which means I'm actually pretty close to done with the new material! I'd like to do another backup story, but I haven't figured out *what*, exactly -- the one that I just finished deals with Matt's backstory, so I kinda want to feature another character, but I'm not exactly sure who. I'm thinking either a young Karen, or a young Richard with his first wife, Sheila. (The idea of just stopping here is also awfully tempting, but I really like the idea of having little glimpses of several characters at the end -- a bunch of the little character moments that I never got to work into the main body of the comic for various reasons.)
There is one scene that I really *REALLY* need to rewrite (I've already rewritten/relettered the damn thing at least three times, so I'm not eager to jump into it), which will probably entail adding a page or two of new material. And then all that's left (well, the only major things that are left, anyhow) are the cover and the other backup story, if I decide to do it. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I don't think it's a train ...
I promised a long time ago to post snippets of Freebird as I worked on it, and well ... obviously, I guess, I haven't. How about one of the new strips?
Heh, when I originally wrote this strip back in 2006, the specific pop-culture references were all different, and this is undoubtedly going to be horribly dated in a year or two. I'm not even sure if Deadjournal is recent enough to work for someone as young as Rainbow ... the strip is aging a lot faster than my characters are!
Richard and Rainbow are probably my favorite characters to write together. I'm not sure if it's actually funny to anyone other than me, but I have a ton of fun writing their dialogue. The thing about them is that they're incredibly similar people, but they don't seem to realize it; out of his three daughters, Rainbow is probably the one that Richard is closest to, and the one he has the most in common with. She can take all the sarcasm he dishes out, and dish it back with interest.
There is one scene that I really *REALLY* need to rewrite (I've already rewritten/relettered the damn thing at least three times, so I'm not eager to jump into it), which will probably entail adding a page or two of new material. And then all that's left (well, the only major things that are left, anyhow) are the cover and the other backup story, if I decide to do it. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I don't think it's a train ...
I promised a long time ago to post snippets of Freebird as I worked on it, and well ... obviously, I guess, I haven't. How about one of the new strips?
Heh, when I originally wrote this strip back in 2006, the specific pop-culture references were all different, and this is undoubtedly going to be horribly dated in a year or two. I'm not even sure if Deadjournal is recent enough to work for someone as young as Rainbow ... the strip is aging a lot faster than my characters are!
Richard and Rainbow are probably my favorite characters to write together. I'm not sure if it's actually funny to anyone other than me, but I have a ton of fun writing their dialogue. The thing about them is that they're incredibly similar people, but they don't seem to realize it; out of his three daughters, Rainbow is probably the one that Richard is closest to, and the one he has the most in common with. She can take all the sarcasm he dishes out, and dish it back with interest.