Man, the tags on this page are just absolute madness. It looks like I just passed out and collapsed onto the keyboard while posting this page… which isn’t all THAT far from the actual Far Out There creative process. Then[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, I know, the obvious thing would be for elves to be running this place, but the very fact that it’s the obvious thing is why I couldn’t do it. Instead, it’s the glorious return of Squishyfupplebutter! …or maybe this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another page that inherited a LOT of text it wasn’t originally going to have. I mean, Astrid was always going to do a BIT of narration to carry us through the transition from the police station scene to this one,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Again, there’s at LEAST two pages worth of speech bubbles jammed into the final version of this page. Originally, I’d hoped to have every single page be a single big panel, so any time you see multiple panels like this,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Under normal circumstances, this would be the part where I’d make some meta-jokes about what exactly Astrid did to get on the Naughty List in the first place, but I’m actually distracted by something else. See, as originally written, this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Originally the dialog between the two other cops was supposed to set up who Astrid was on her way to see, but then we had to go buy some new strings of tree lights because the ones we’d bought JUST[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The joke here was supposed to be that, unlike every schlocky cop show/movie ever where the chief is constantly shouting at the main character, here it’s Astrid constantly shouting a totally reserved and level-headed superior… but then it occurred to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
AND SO IT BEGINS! …with lots of dots! Yeah, as I mentioned before, I’ve wound up using this year’s batch of Christmas comics to experiment with some stuff. Specifically, I want to try and get better at the whole screentone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, there was no was I was gonna top last year in terms of visual creativity, so might as well go for broke on conceptual detail instead! And if this feels like a little too much thought went into it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, this is one of my favorite comics of this whole set. Yes, the photocollage elements work a lot better here, aside from that ill-conceived attempt at a couch, but that’s only part of it. I always like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…