I knew from the beginning that I was restricted on time (a few weeks alongside other ongoing projects) and with that didn't have a lot of time to spend grandly thinking of a narrative, so I decided to make something of several smaller strips. I knew I wanted to make a comic, as I have little interest for zines that are just collections of standalone images. They need something more, or they need to be GOOD.
I began drawing loosely, essentially doodling what came to mind. I was very stuck for ideas, but as I drew tried to think about how I could arrange a few strips together. By theme? By character?
I thought I could make a whole strip about one character but knew, with the natural tone heading for apathy and dryness, it would come off as a Klaus rip-off.
I decided that it would be daft.
I made the comic of "evolution" and the series of the girl doing sport, and thought I could categorise a few comics as school subjects. The intended audience was never children, but that didn't mean the characters could not be children. I was reminded of the children in the beginning of Virginia Woolf's The Waves, so utterly complex and long winded and un-child like. I liked the idea of their profundity but not me being profound. To poke fun at the thinkers. To be silly.
The actual process of drawing the comics were immediate, I would note down an idea and draw it with little care for composition etc- it was a matter of time, but in honesty, I also enjoy the immediacy of the wonkily drawn comic. It's like you can see the author's processes too, and feels personal.
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