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Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:37 am

Montana isn't so big...

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:38 am

Memories... flooding back to me.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:00 am

Noise Monkey wrote:Montana isn't so big...

I wanna hug you and squeeze you into itty bitty pieces!

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:50 am

Maybe Montana's alter ego Jack could help out.

Col · Post by **Col** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:07 pm

Urge to update... rising...

Dark Spider · Post by **Dark Spider** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:20 pm

Dutch! wrote:
This always makes me laugh. I'm a busy and struggling primary school teacher with 26 kids to worry about and Reading, Writing, Spelling, Maths, PE, Science, Social Studies, Art, Technology and Personal Development classes to plan for each day. You can find time if you really want to.

To each his own....but wow, that's pretty dedicated, you have my respect. Yea, you're right about finding time though. My time is usually about 12 at night before I go to bed. Its a labor of love.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:48 pm

Dark Spider wrote:Its a labor of love.

Well, you're halfway there already with that outlook.

Pylon · Post by **Pylon** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:58 pm

There's plenty of time if you cut out sleep and eating. Cutting those out gives you almost 5-6 hours alone.

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:18 pm

My time is usually at work, when no one's watching.

Pylon · Post by **Pylon** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:22 pm

Ditto, only in school instead of work, and usually everyone watches because the lecture is boring, instead of making sure no one sees. I think once even the professor just stopped mid-sentence and left, because I stayed in the room (doing my strips) and everyone else had left, so he must have figured it was a lost cause.

AnnaAngel · Post by **AnnaAngel** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 8:12 pm

I stay far ahead of what's being posted because of the way I draw mine. I work on chapters rather than individual pages (so I got through and pencil all the pages of the chapter, then ink them all, then shade, etc) and chapters are about 30 pages so they take a while.

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:30 pm

I draw mine about four days in advance so that I have a backlog to fall on in case anything unfortunate should befall me. Since it's a daily strip and all, I can't afford to randomly take days off if there won't be an update without me.

Sometimes I do draw them out of the order that they're going to appear in, but that's usually only if I think that one is going to take some sort of super huge effort that I can't do on, say, a weekday.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:48 pm

I had a buffer... once...

For the first month, I had a two week buffer, and it was nice. Then school started, and my buffer went "poof!" Funny how that works.

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:00 pm

my past 2 strips are about a week late. normally i do all the work a day or two in advance, or about a day later. oops.

Smight · Post by **Smight** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:05 am

Where's the option for " I drew my comic a while ago but lost it and so am forced to redraw it but by this time I've forgotten where I was going with the last one so it comes out radically different so I decide to go on hiatus for several months"?

'cause that would be my choice.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:07 am

Probably "something different".

Ti-Phil · Post by **Ti-Phil** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:48 pm

I'm usually four weeks in advance for my updates... except lately I've been only three weeks because of all the school/work/homeworks.

Ida · Post by **Ida** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:56 pm

I *penciled* Monday's comic today, does that count?

I generally split up comic-making over two or three days, depending on how late I am, because getting a whole page from sketch to fully colored in one day is virtually impossible. Technically, my schedule goes like this: Friday is sketching, Saturday is clean-up and inking and Sunday is computerwork. In practise however, it goes more like this: Friday is slacking, Saturday morning is more slacking, Saturday night is panic and quick sketching, Sunday is intensive clean-up of Saturday's pathetic excuse for a comic, followed by inking and more panic, and finally the coloring, which is sometimes pushed to Monday. And that is when I have time to update.

Lately, I've had to skip nearly every other update because school has been determined to kill me with stupid homework which of course all has to be handed in on Mondays. Not good for the schedule at all, I tell you.
Oh, and that's the reason I've been away from the forums for so long as well. Hi everybody, how are you?

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