Children at Play

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Storytime

kingofsnake

on July 19, 2007

Tera noticed it when I forgot to mention it. Yesterday's comic marked the long overdue departure of the handwritten lettering. My hand writing just is not legible enough for this comic. It's not THAT bad, and for other comics I'm sure it'd be fine, but this comic is often VERY dialoge heavy, and it really gets to be a pain when you have to read that much handwriting that is sometimes unclear.

Not to mention it would take me an hour minutes just to write out the bubbles. Someone had suggested I switch to handwriting to make it look more organic, more in-tune with the crayon backgrounds. Switching back over to typed font was the first real step towards the current incarnation of C@P, which is so much sharper than this old stuff, but I think, maintais the "colored outside the lines" feel.

You know alot of people have asked me if the person who drew C@P at the begining and the person who drew C@P at the end was the same person. It's the most common comment I've heard from people looking at my old stuff. And it's gotta be the nicest thing ever.

Oh, on a side note, everything in this comic is 100% true, they're true stories, the salt cup thing happened exactly the same way, and ryan's failed attempt at telling his own story was peiced together from a couple of his many failed attempts to tell stories

Injoke: This is the only time we see chuck's youngest brother joe, but if we started seeing him more regularly, every time we saw him he'd be sporting some sort of injury. He was brutalized by his older brothers. Also since I have known chuck there has always been someone in his family in a cast of some sort.

Writers room: We spent an ungodly amount of time coming up with the name of the kids orientated pizza parlor in chuck's story. The runner up was "cheese me up, charlie's"