Another story from the front lines of retail…

So this week I used a much larger board to draw on for each panel. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned my production process before so here are some details. I use an illustration board and cut it to order so that each panel is a separate board. The finished square board used to be 5″ but now is 7″, which is nice because I have a lot more room for details and finer control of gestures and the like. I’ve already done next week’s cartoon and while I think I didn’t fully take advantage of all this new space this week, I certainly did for next week.

I draw in non-photo blue pencil (which doesn’t show up when scanned and so needs no erasing saving time) and then ink over that. When that’s done I scan each panel, clean them up in photoshop and move them over to Illustrator for words, panel borders and anything else that needs doing. A few quick change of formats and exports and I’m ready to upload. This process is always evolving and if you have any suggestions I’m all ears.

Happy retail worker No. 3334293293472309-23423/dx2384702342-ord.vi writes:

I used to work at a ball park selling baseball merch like hoodies and balls t shirts hats and whatever. in this stadium there were bathrooms about every 5 steps. where ever you looked there would be a bathroom. every night i would have more than 60 people ask me where the bathroom is. the previous year i worked there at the concessions stands selling hot dogs…  on the menu was 4 kinds of dogs including sausages pop corn, salads and soda. thats it. I would have people walk up.. stare at the menu for 20 minutes and ask if we serve pizza here. it was very very very annoying i have so many stories about why i hate the general public. but hey, i’m getting paid right?

Thanks for sending your kind words and your story! You know who you are

New donations scheme and other blah blah blah…

So, in an attempt to explore ways to make this comic break even I’m going to try a donations button for a while. I would like to make it a bit more interesting, much like Goblins has, by doing extra work in exchange for readers kind offers.

Ok, here’s the idea, in exchange for donations I will have a meter wherein the higher it goes determines which character, if any, will have a dream sequence comic to appear that next week. I’ve always liked the ‘Little Nemo’ comic and thought this would be a great opportunity to get a little wild with the Quitting Time crew.

Any feedback? Would you prefer something different? I suppose if it doesn’t work in a few months I’ll try to come up with something else.

Quitting Time received it’s first rejection letter from the United Media Syndicate. I immediately sent the package back out to another syndicate for consideration. No time to mope about rejections anymore.