suprdee2.com
Ringo Award nominated newspaper cartoonist
Creator of Life With Kurami, Pen & Ink, and Rosebuds
www.suprdee2.com
Rosebuds is being distributed by King Features Syndicate
www.comicskingdom.com/rosebuds
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Genuinely wouldn't be mad at that comparison. 🤣
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I wish, last time I took a "vacation" was in 2021 and wound up with COVID the entire duration of it.
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Since you're doing a comic book/manga styled story, this sort of thing wouldn't apply to you anyway (nor would I encourage you to pursue this sort of schedule. It's not for the faint of heart.)
Definitely take things at your own pace for now and enjoy the journey!
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However editorial cartoonists are freaking monsters.
Some I've heard have to get their strip in hours before the following daily newspaper goes out. Absolute insanity.
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I guess what's reassuring about hearing and knowing other syndicated cartoonists is that some really toe the line of their deadline production schedule.
There's some that are less than 2 weeks out, others are a month or two out. It's all different and we're all working at our own paces.
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See, there's crazy, and then there's Brubaker.
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The work of going daily has been a real eye-opening experience. Granted, this isn't my first time doing a daily strip (Life With Kurami, 2015) but doing it at a much larger scale. I've learned a lot in this past year of doing Rosebuds.
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it's surviving through spite
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It's different for many, standard is being 4-6 weeks ahead for dailies and 8 weeks for sundays. Some like Stephan Pastis are over a year out, last I heard. And I think Brian Crane of Pickles is like 9 months out.
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My love for you and my wife will always be on full display
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Yeah, so this strip was maybe 8 months out before the last traditionally made Garfield strip.
And I do know, Eric Reaves, one of the people who worked on the strip, shared it with me yesterday (he's the main artist of Hi & Lois now):
Gary Barker - pencils
Larry Fentz - inks
Eric Reaves - lettering
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Not weird at all! This definitely could have worked as a 4-panel strip.
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You're right!
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The big thing I can see is that you should have two different sets of “Is”, one regular one for use in words, and one crossbar I for when you say stuff like “I am..” etc.
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How does it look in all caps?
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Look at how BIG these guys worked!
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Say whatever you will about the comic strip but the art has always been so clean and strong. Visual eye candy.