Welcome to the start of Director’s Commentary month! Or as I call it, Directember. I don’t call it that. ANYWAY
It felt appropriate to start with the first QC strip I ever made! For the rest of these entries I think I’m just gonna hit the “random comic” button and write about whatever pops up.
It’s funny how even this incredibly rough comic still held some elements that persist to this day. I was in the ballpark with Pintsize’s original design, but making him less baby-shaped was definitely a good choice. The vertical panel layout was also a smart move, considering how small displays/browser windows were back then (and we didn’t even have smartphones yet, dear god). On the flip side, losing the goofy dialog font and drop-shadow speech bubbles was also a good decision. I don’t really remember why I thought the zigzag panel thing was cool, I guess because it looked “different?” And of course there’s Marten’s TEH shirt which somehow persists to this day.
Fun fact: up until I was about 14, if you had asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said “a cartoonist.” Then I heard Nirvana and my head exploded and I was like “FUCK comics I wanna be a ROCK STAR” and so I only did music stuff for the next several years. Looking back, I would not have been happy as a rock star. I’m glad I went back to comics, which ironically happened because I was tired of being in bands and wanted a creative outlet I could do on my own. I remember when my BIG UNREALISTIC GOAL was “maybe one day I’ll have 10,000 people reading my comic.” Several hundred thousand of you and 21 years later…
