HA!
The coloring on that is great.
It’s always fun seeing your stuff in purely ink and blue-line and then watch it transform to life online.
And it was really nice to sit down and read WEEKENDS in printed form today. The story flows really nicely all in one, but somehow I couldnt help feel like I should wait a few days between each page.
I still dont know how I feel about CARL now that I’ve read the tale a couple times in a couple different formats.
I feel like his parting email is justified, but (and maybe its all from “your” perspective) but he really was a jerk who was pushing to hard and asking too much and only in his own bizarre hindsight can the way he acted be justified to himself.
I don’t know. I had an ex girlfriend once tell me what a jerk i was when we broke up, and for the life of me couldnt understand where that was coming from. The person I dated after her became my wife, and just the other day my wife told me I was a huge jerk when we first met (and have grown, obviously, or else we wouldnt be married) but again I’m still confused as to where all this would come from.
I was nice.
I was me.
So…I guess Carl is the same as me.
Being himself and offending others whether he realizes it or not.
Do I like him cause I can empathize?
….No.
Should I anyway?
…I dunno. MAybe if I liked people more?
Anyway…congrats again on the book!
Hope you start another longform strip soon!
Hey, thanks for the comments. Just to clue in the others at home, I showed Danno the art for this comic at a cartoonist workshop (I also sold him an advanced copy of Weekends With Carl, on sale soon!).
As for what you said about WEEKENDS, what I was trying to do in the last third of the book (especially the flashback scenes with the girl), was show that we can all be jerks at times and not realize it until its too late. That’s why the main character keeps putting up with so much crap from Carl. He sees a little of himself in Carl. He doesn’t want to assume the role of the flashback girl and lay the smack down because he knows how that feels, but that’s what he ends up doing anyway.
The story was a real balancing act between making Carl an irredeemable jerk and a sympathetic character. I think I may have him too much of a jerk, but I guess it’s too late now. I really don’t want to rework this story.
Anyway, this was the last place I expected to go into a discussion on Weekends With Carl.
HA!
The coloring on that is great.
It’s always fun seeing your stuff in purely ink and blue-line and then watch it transform to life online.
And it was really nice to sit down and read WEEKENDS in printed form today. The story flows really nicely all in one, but somehow I couldnt help feel like I should wait a few days between each page.
I still dont know how I feel about CARL now that I’ve read the tale a couple times in a couple different formats.
I feel like his parting email is justified, but (and maybe its all from “your” perspective) but he really was a jerk who was pushing to hard and asking too much and only in his own bizarre hindsight can the way he acted be justified to himself.
I don’t know. I had an ex girlfriend once tell me what a jerk i was when we broke up, and for the life of me couldnt understand where that was coming from. The person I dated after her became my wife, and just the other day my wife told me I was a huge jerk when we first met (and have grown, obviously, or else we wouldnt be married) but again I’m still confused as to where all this would come from.
I was nice.
I was me.
So…I guess Carl is the same as me.
Being himself and offending others whether he realizes it or not.
Do I like him cause I can empathize?
….No.
Should I anyway?
…I dunno. MAybe if I liked people more?
Anyway…congrats again on the book!
Hope you start another longform strip soon!
Hey, thanks for the comments. Just to clue in the others at home, I showed Danno the art for this comic at a cartoonist workshop (I also sold him an advanced copy of Weekends With Carl, on sale soon!).
As for what you said about WEEKENDS, what I was trying to do in the last third of the book (especially the flashback scenes with the girl), was show that we can all be jerks at times and not realize it until its too late. That’s why the main character keeps putting up with so much crap from Carl. He sees a little of himself in Carl. He doesn’t want to assume the role of the flashback girl and lay the smack down because he knows how that feels, but that’s what he ends up doing anyway.
The story was a real balancing act between making Carl an irredeemable jerk and a sympathetic character. I think I may have him too much of a jerk, but I guess it’s too late now. I really don’t want to rework this story.
Anyway, this was the last place I expected to go into a discussion on Weekends With Carl.