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dolariOriginally published at AWFW and CS Production Blog. You can comment here or there.
Let’s get some backstory about CS out of the way, cause there’s a lot ot talk about with AWFW.
CS: I promised funny, with little angst or drama in this storyline, so what do I do? Four episodes in, Carrie’s gotten mad at Allison twice and Lindy’s mom once. She’s gotten JUST a bit crabby, yes? So, to try and keep my promise for the funny, I have Lindy go for the “She knows what’s going on” joke. And I felt so so so so so dirty about that. A dirt that won’t go away anytime soon.
I actually screwed up the sequence from Panel 3, 4 and 5. You’ll notice Carrie points at the wrong time, and Allison scratches her head at the wrong time. Problem wa, Lindy was “hard coded” into the art, and the writing just warped in a way that the panels no longer match the actions. Boogers. I like the “light coming in from off camera” look, though.
AWFW: Yes, I had the Roman Household Slave make that tasty sponge bread from the Moviegasm. I also reprinted the recipe on the AWFW site for anyone who’d like to make it. If you look carefully, Servius, the slave, is the same guy from Laura Seabrook’s Tales of the Galli who introduces you to the Triclinium. She’s the only other person I know doing a Roman story, although our stories are about 100 years apart and mine is a flashback. Yes, that’s a screen grab of Doctor Who “Fires of Pompeii” in Panel 1. And the comics are not finished up. AND this is also the first AWFW comic in about a month or two.
About that….
The Problem with A Wish for Wings
Of the two comics I make, Closetspace is, by far, the most popular. I’ve made a big deal about how when it comes down to comic crunch time, CS gets the lion’s share of my time (despite the fact that I think AWFW is the better story). Not counting last week, where I was violently sick, my time for comics has been slashed dramatically.
I’m now working a 6 day week, on hours that aren’t exactly the best hours for creativity. The number of hours in the week hasn’t changed, but the time in those hours has. I’m most creative in the evening, now my evenings are spent getting groceries and keeping up the house. By the time I’m feeling up to drawing, it’s time for bed.
The problem with AWFW is there’s very little time for it when this is all taken into account. I really have ONE day to draw a comic, when I was taking two or three to do two. And as the CS comic is more high profile and visible, my time goes to that. AWFW’s audience is silent - I never hear from them good or bad, so I’m assuming it won’t be missed when it’s late or incomplete. But at the same time, this “quick flashback” has been going on for almost six months in “real time”, and I want it over. Plus I like the AWFW universe.
My hours should be switching back to 5 days a week soon - once that happens, both comics will be able have the time needed to finish, and when the AWFW book comes out sometime this millenia, I’ll go back and finish up those episodes. Hope the AWFW readers, wherever they are, bear with me until then.
