Author: Nathan

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Interesting Times Friday Mailbag: "A Dubious Offer"

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Please send your comments, questions,
and yes, even your questionably valid offers
to journalcomic at gmail dot com

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[BEGIN COMMENTARY] I’m very happy with the artwork in this comic, starting with the Eustace Tilley shout-out in the middle panel (full disclosure: I’ve never read the New Yorker, but that’s sort of an iconic image and it captured what I was going for).

CARINA in the last panel looks like something you’d have to fight in Contra or Mega Man so of course I am happy with that too. Mostly it’s because of that big sort-of-skull on top, which honestly was an accident. When it comes to cartoony supercomputers I draw a big rectangle and start adding details, usually massive cables and lots of little lines. The “orbs” just made it look like a face, suddenly. [May 25, 2012]

another fantasy quashed by Google

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(Painting is “The Hands Resist Him” by Bill Stoneham.
Permission for usage neither given nor requested)

[BEGIN COMMENTARY] I’ve never actually developed a comics rivalry. Mostly I just hate everybody who’s better than me at comics, which is a lot of people. I think they need to return that hatred for a true rivalry to happen, but I don’t think the Better Comics People are aware of my existence, so here we are.

(That was a joke, I don’t hate anybody in comics) [May 25, 2012]