Today is the 18th anniversary of Octopus Pie, which debuted on May 14, 2007. AMA and I’ll talk about it today. - ThreadSky

meredithgran.com • 34 days ago

Today is the 18th anniversary of Octopus Pie, which debuted on May 14, 2007.

AMA and I’ll talk about it today.

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Did you ever consider doing a second comic series after Octopus Pie (IE a new series with different characters)? If not why not?

bergamohjones.bsky.social•34 days ago

The scene where someone points out that Eve Ning's name is a pun stuck with me. Did you name her for that pun or come up with the name first and notice it later? And generally, how did you name the other characters?

jseanharrison.bsky.social•34 days ago

How did New York changing over the decade affect the strip?

fincoe.bsky.social•34 days ago

Were there major shifts in how seriously you took the comic over the course of its run? "Seriously" meaning whatever you want, be it intentionality, life priority, humour

kcg.bsky.social•34 days ago

How are you doing!!!!!!! Today!!!

tarantulaarms.bsky.social•34 days ago

Congratulations! What do you think your characters would be up to in 2025?

ecfnj.bsky.social•34 days ago

No question, just wanted to say thank you. Loved the series.

forgotten-niceties.bsky.social•34 days ago

so many parts of the comic stay with me - characters, chapters, tiny moments. how often did you feel you'd caught something that might resonate in some way?

marek and ducks
victor (obvs)
mar and jane in the bar ❤️
larry and the tat-too, tat-too
'i literally just blinked and existed'

nowondvd.bsky.social•34 days ago

Given how central Brooklyn and upstate New York is to Octopus Pie (the land/cityscape feels like a character in and of itself), did you ever see it taking place elsewhere? Would a possible future OP comic see a new setting?

tomtomfoolery.bsky.social•34 days ago

Do you have a favorite gag from the comic that springs to mind? I was thinking about puget sean cutting off a conversation in progress to walk home and play Nintendo

white-bread.bsky.social•34 days ago

I think about that gag all the time.

ariartaccount.bsky.social•34 days ago

Same, whenever I'm board of a conversation i think about doing this exact thing

ryanvance.bsky.social•34 days ago

What song would you pick to soundtrack's Jane's walk home (perhaps my favourite of all your strips and high up there with the all time greats)?

https://www.octopuspie.com/comic/818-home/

kyleor.land•34 days ago

Do you have a favorite storyline/daily stirp?

qwilman.bsky.social•34 days ago

What do you think Mara would think of Octopus Pie, and same for Eve and Hannah about Perfect Tides?

qwilman.bsky.social•34 days ago

Correcting for time travel shenannigans

terraaaaaa.bsky.social•34 days ago

some panels and lines in octopus pie live in my head rent-free to this day ("... and adjusted for inflation?", or "the anthy to your utena!"+"AAAAA")

are there any that are memorable to you in the same way? things more easily-remembered than others, just stand-out moments.

terraaaaaa.bsky.social•34 days ago

... i'm noticing a pattern; maybe i just like jane a lot as a character

caffeinedrifter.bsky.social•34 days ago

What kind of music would Hanna and Eve listen to?

mikestevens.blue•34 days ago

I have no questions, only compliments. It was an amazing time and I so deeply appreciate your work on it all!

shecallsmecdawg.bsky.social•34 days ago

Also! Can you talk about the shift to color? What was regular collaboration like with Valerie?

shecallsmecdawg.bsky.social•34 days ago

How did your writing priorities change as the story evolved, changed formats, etc. Did you approach certain moments differently as things shifted from gag comic to long form?

ililiililli.bsky.social•34 days ago

This page was such a delight to come across in that first book. How did you ever pull this off? Were there any other translations from digital to print that you would've liked to do?

ariartaccount.bsky.social•34 days ago

Having only seen the gif version on the website, this is such a treat

cwbuecheler.com•34 days ago

Do you think we'll see more check-ins as the characters continue to age? I really enjoyed the COVID-era mini-comic, and the wedding follow-up!

neptune432.bsky.social•34 days ago

both eve and hanna influence each other over the course of the comic. people have described it as them "switching personalities," but you've said it's more like they brought out different sides to their personalities that were always there. when and why did you decide to develop them this way?

mutazmatar77.bsky.social•34 days ago

I just posted about my family, please don't ignore me, quote and follow me. Please quote my pinned tweet? 🙏💔

edmundito.com•34 days ago

How did you keep track of each of the characters’s internal goals and personality over so many years?

rrw82.bsky.social•34 days ago

Octopus Pie is one of my favorite webcomics of all time. My question is when you briefly lived in Portland, Oregon, did you ever consider having Eve or anyone else in the cast relocate to the West Coast either temporarily or permanently?

redgreenandbloo.bsky.social•34 days ago

Hope this doesn’t sound weird, but is there a reason Hanna is barefoot for a good amount of the comic? It just seems like a very deliberate choice from a creative standpoint

arsnof.bsky.social•34 days ago

When you are eventually reduced to an immortal head in a jar on a shelf somewhere, would you just be writing or would you still try to draw, too?

doors.bsky.social•34 days ago

1.) favorite panels?
2.) favorite storylines?
3.) ur webcomic is an adult now! how will ur comic celebrate
4.) any memorable stories involving fans?

i appreciate your comic!! it is a formative part of my teenage to young adult life

wren.im•34 days ago

What was the reasons for switching from releasing whole chapters to releasing page-by-page?

(I asked you this at a signing but then other people were talking and my mind wandered and I missed what you said and was too embarrassed to ask you to repeat yourself)

purpleriot.bsky.social•34 days ago

What inspired you to choose The Shaggs as Hanna's parents' representative wacky record?

michaeliantorno.com•34 days ago

Is Ollie based on a specific boss you had, or is he a pastiche of every desperate small business owner? He reminds me off my old boss from when I worked at a recording studio (which similarly burned down).

danieljhogan.bsky.social•34 days ago

Fond memories of that comic. Great stuff.

aiika.bsky.social•34 days ago

What is personally your favourite panel / page from the whole series?
Love your work overall btw, looking forward to the next Perfect Tides :)

shinyluvdisc.gay•34 days ago

How much of the story (esp the ending) was planned vs improvised or came about naturally?

picklefactory.org•34 days ago

no questions but this thread made me take the Interstate Oasis book off the shelf and confirm again that the "Warriors of the Sacred Fist" sequence makes me cackle out loud like an idiot every time. the way you use a shift in tone has always amazed me

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