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do you like ska?
is franky gonna pull someone with her swag?
do you have a process for coming up with ideas or do they just sorta pop into your head unexpectedly
They pop into my head, but they pop into my head more when I’m sitting down at my desk in front of my computer! Lots of my time spent “working” on comics is just sitting at my desk staring into space and coming up with things… I wish I was better at it and had a better process of organizing and keeping track of my scattered thoughts!
What do you do when you have artblock?
I don’t really have a good solution for this right now… it used to be that reading comics would break me out of my funk and inspire me, but lately reading comics just makes me want to read more comics! I’ve been banging my head against art a lot lately and would love to have a quicker way to overcome this than making a bunch of bad comic pages before I can dig out a good one!
IDK if this is a good question or not but I remember you saying you would be willing to do more stuff with the cast of Matchmaker but in a different context sometime in the future. Did you have any ideas for that?
Yeah!! I’ve actually spent quite a bit of time working on ideas for this, though none ever fully materialized. I still would really love to do it down the line! Some ideas I’ve considered that may or may not end up happening eventually:
-Marlowe takes an art program at a local college and ropes the gang into coming along to figure drawing sessions even though they can’t draw
-Marlowe and Kimmy are roommates and Mason lives with them as an eternal third wheel even though he has a bf
-Mason gets into making music after spending time doing graphic design for fairy milk. He immediately becomes very smug and overconfident after years of being a nervous wreck
-Kimmy and Mason play the elden ring dlc
-Kimmy and Mason get really into card games and their house becomes an underground poker ring within the friend group
-Kimmy has a midlife crisis at 24. Keeps coming to a 30 year old Sam for “advice on being old”
-Emma and Marlowe drunk make out but kimmy and josh think it’s kind of hot and vow never to stop it. Drunk Emma and drunk Marlowe start going out but their sober counterparts have no idea
-kimmy gets hungry and makes a really good grilled cheese sandwich
Describe the perfect nap.
I had the perfect nap the other day… I was visiting my family on the island and we stayed in a little cabin near the beach. We came back from walking the dog and I crashed onto the bed… I took off my glasses and felt myself sink into the covers. Blinked my eyes open and it was an hour later and the sun had gone down a little and I felt refreshed and lovely
What's your favorite boss of the elden ring dlc?
I had an unforgettable experience beating the dancing lion first time after being stuck on every single other boss in the game… everything came together and it was a beautiful experience and the first time I’ve ever felt good at Elden ring!!! Otherwise I adored the sunflower and rellana…. Still more to meet too!!
Ah I’m the person who asked the nonbinary question, totally my bad! I didn’t mean to imply anything negative or be rude!!! I’m bad at wording things and kinda awkward, but I promise my intentions were good and I wasn’t trying to “egg” you haha. Again, my apologies!!
If you could open your own bookstore, what would be the vibe?
Oh it would be so good. I work at the most corperate book store in the world and every day I yearn for a place that builds relationships with it’s customers instead of trying to take advantage of them… it would be a curated space to help people find work that the employees find special instead of just discounting bestsellers to boost profits…. It would be a good place to hang out even if you weren’t buying anything…. Sure a store like this might lose money instead of making it but so do the corperate book stores lol!! It would be the spark of a beautiful dream
How are you feeling gender-wise lately? Do you still id as nonbinary?
Have you read the manga Hirayasumi? The narration style in Flying Saucer Video feels like it has a bit of a similar vibe, I dig both.
I’m reading it right now!!! I totally love it!! The idea to have a narrator was more inspired by arrested development and kaguya-sama which both use their narrators for incredibly efficient humour. I’ve also been using it as a tool for “looking back” on these events so to speak which is something I’ve been thinking about since I saw I saw the tv glow, where some key moments rely on the narrator talking about the present in past tense which I found endlessly wonderful and interesting. Hirayasumi hasn’t influenced my work much yet since I started it very recently but I wholeheartedly expect it to!!!
Do you enjoy swimming?
If you could pick one band that never really took off and magically make them universally beloved and successful, who would it be?
Do you have any advice on writing romance when you've had almost no experience with love or dating whatsoever?
Read lots of shojo manga and pay close attention to people!! romance manga really figured out how to communicate romance visually and drawing from that has helped me so much! I’m in a long term relationship which of course inspires the feelings of my romance work, but since drawing from one relationship isn’t enough to continue writing stories about a verity of people I just try to pay a lot of attention to everyone I know. My comic flying saucer video is exploring the lines between friendship and romance, I think they’re very similar. I try to be in touch with my feelings and even just making friends is an experience of noticing special things about a person and feeling drawn to them, even if it’s 100% platonic. Then your friends have friendships and romances and create their own dynamics, it’s beautiful! Romance fiction is a heightening of relationships, so I try to bring all of my feelings towards everyone in my life into my romance comics and I think it makes for an interesting veriety of characters and dynamics that can all be set to 100 to bring out fun comics
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