hooray for products that advertise your personal problems

One thing I didn’t pay strict attention to in the early comics was differentiating other people from myself. I established from the start that I’d draw myself as the most basic stick-person possible (path of least resistance, you see) but I didn’t always remember that it can be confusing to add other people to the mix and have them look, well, pretty much the same.

Light hair is a super-simple way to change that. For light hair I draw a stick person, and then throw a few spikey lines across the forehead. Boom, altogether different character. I’m not going to go and count, but I’m betting that if the comic requires a non-specific “extra” character they’ll have light hair nine times out of ten. [November 24, 2011]

7 thoughts on “hooray for products that advertise your personal problems

  1. Hmm. I would just turn around to the guy behind me (as if I knew him,) and say, “So, this should fix the problem you’re having, right?” And then buy it. Yeah… that would totally work.

  2. This set me laughing out loud. I think the Doo Doo doo doooo! was half of it, but Freeman clinched the deal. His expression is priceless.

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