And what the fuck’s going on! I love your story.

My process is as follows – I do my rough layouts digitally, with Photoshop and a Wacom tablet. I made an 8-panel template which I use each week. My layouts are very very crude, only for me to work out the basic compositions and pacing of the strip. Once I’m satisfied with the roughs I place the balloons and write the final dialogue in Illustrator. I then print out the layouts in a light blue on bristol board, with the lettering in black (I like having the letters on the board). I draw in ink directly on to the blue roughs, using Faber-Castell Pitt brush markers. As difficult as it is for someone as anal as I am, for this project I try not to bother with making the drawings pretty or perfect, so there are plenty of what I would consider to be “errors” in the art, but I’m just trying to get a loose, spontaneous drawing on the board. After the line art is complete I scan it into Photoshop, add the colour, replace the scanned lettering from the board with the digital file (easier to read on a monitor), and post it up here for everyone to read. Today’s strip was a record – the entire process I just described took just over four hours to complete.

Thanks guys for the comments!