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Shaenon: Sometimes you sketch something in the thumbnails and just know you won't be able to capture it in the final strip. This was one of those times. There was no way I was going to reproduce that panda. Sigh.

Thought I'd share a few more thumbnails from this storyline...






Note that I drew something that looks at least vaguely like a fireaxe in the thumbnails, before deciding in the final strips that reasonably-sized axes are for losers.


Channing: I think the Unity/Sweetheart/Konstantin strip that eventually came out of the final thumbnail is one of my favorite strips thus far. "Is basis of government!" is such a stone-cold classic Garrity line that it makes me weep. How did I ever score this job again?

8 comments:
So It Begins (soitbegins) says: 5
Rob Reed (rrreed) says: But the Russian judge gave it a 3.5! An outrage!
Ed Gedeon (eddurd) says: Personally, I like Sweetheart's line, "Problems just solve themselves for you, don't they?"
Petsky Piyamaradu (peropi) says:

How long before airing-time do you draw these?

 I love Sweetheart's facial expressions!!! 

Edwin Quantrall (reynard) says: Yes, Sweetheart certainly lives up to her name...
Shaenon Garrity (shaenongarrity) says: How long before airing-time do you draw these?

It depends on the strip. I tend to write strips out of chronological order, so some are written right before I start drawing, others years ahead of time. Jeffrey tends to be a little more disciplined and write strips that take place in the storyline we're actually working on.

As for the time between the finished strips and their appearance online, I like to keep a buffer of 3-4 weeks.
John Campbell (jcampbel) says:

"[...] reasonably-sized axes are for losers."

Presumably, this explains Zürrr.

Rockphed (rockphed) says: I must agree.  The Russian's Line is truly Hard Core.
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