One of the few stories where I actually used a straight-edge for panel borders.
Reading Gary Larson’s The Prehistory of The Far Side. If you want to find out what an author is REALLY thinking while attempting to get ideas across, just go read that thing. It’s the most honest, WTF-was-I-thinking? explanation of the creative process I’ve ever read.
Editors, reviewers, professors, and creatives who want a grant fall for the profound explanations for art. We’ve all had head trauma and we’re excited about something and we want pats on the head and we wonder Who Does This Stuff? Elves? all the time. We’re like the sloppy scientist labs have at least one of if they can afford her — for the mystery conjunctions, the what-if moments and the that-shouldn’t-have-worked! discoveries.
Most novelists meant most of what they wrote to be funny, especially the tragic stuff, because how the hell else do you get it across? In the original German, All Quiet on the Western Front is fricking hilarious. The title, after all, is actually Im Westen nichts Neues — “In the west, nothing new.” Which still fits.
