Ramblings of a Demented Soul

A predicament!

I read comics like Shades of Grey that have buffers of 24, 26 comics ahead of time, and I read comics like Zebra Girl that update whenever the artist has time to work on the comic, and I wonder.

I know that as an artist, I need a buffer. I cannot pump out a quality comic a week. It's hard NOW when I'm not doing anything else, it's going to be insane when school starts up again. But I can't think of how to do that without stopping the updates for a while to get ahead. I can barely do a page a week, much less work ahead of myself.

But that means that I need to start writing the scripts before I start work on the comic itself--which is tricky for me, since I don't really know what will fit on the page or what's best for the comic before I draw the comic itself. More often than not, the script gets written AFTER the art is done. More and more I find myself lacking in story, even though my art is improving by leaps and bounds. (did you see this week's comic? It is FANTASTIC! I NEVER expected to be able to do that quality of work.)

But if you're a writer, why would you write for someone else's story? Using someone else's characters? How could you get into that?

Help me out, you guys, how do I fix this?

Enjoy the comic,

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