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Nobody else is going to draw your comics.
Submitted by m_estrugo on February 13, 2010 - 01:06
To all comic artists and graphic designers:
For many years, I've got a very tight grip on my pens. A very, very tight grip, as I thought it was the most precise way to have absolute control over the drawing.
Plus I used to draw for hours and hours, ocasionally stopping to take a glance 'round and realize I'm still in 'this' world and not the one I created. I've spent many, many hours not only drawing characters but illustrating backgrounds and populating them with subtle, almost obsessive textures, all proudly hand-drawn, panel after panel, page after page.
And for many years, I've heard people suggesting me to ease my style of drawing. That I could end hurting my tendons and muscles. But, in spite of those suggestions by people who have been on the business for much longer than me (actually, I've never been 'in the business') I kept with my bad habits, and continued strangling my drawing pens as if I was -squeezing- the ink out of them. You know, kinda like when your parents keep telling you to sit straight and you nevertheless prefer to get a loosier pose on the chair when they're not around.
Deep Fried Ends Weekly Strip
Submitted by m_estrugo on October 2, 2006 - 08:20
Jason Yungbluth, author of the weekly political cartoon Deep Fried, announced on his homepage that he's discontinuing the comic strip.
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