I had a really hard time with this one. First, any time I do a drawing that I’m really proud of, like the one yesterday, the day following is difficult because it feels like I’m ruining the main page of webdisaster. Secondly, today’s sketch illustrates how difficult comics are for me. I’ve been thinking for a while now that I need to do an ‘about’ page so that people that aren’t familiar with what I’m doing here can see my ‘mission statement’ or whatever. And I figured that the best way to do that is in comic form. So I put together what I thought would be one page in my sketchbook, with plans to do another page or two after it. Well, as you can see, it started off all right, but rapidly got mired in text that didn’t fit in the layout. And this was even after I had done a couple of sketches planning out how the panels should be laid out. Not only are comics made up of drawing things over and over in multiple stages, but there’s also a whole lot of composition to take into account. It’s probably not that hard if you do it a lot, but getting started on it is pretty brutal.

There was a point while I was drawing this where I really wanted to say ‘fuck it’ and just not post anything. But instead I decided to follow the spirit contained in the comic and post it anyway. So you can see how much work is actually involved in creating a comic page. And so I can feel some progress in the coming days as I turn this mess into something that looks good. Baby steps!