I have started drawing comics again! It feels good to be back on the horse. However I also came down with a head cold, so it's a very snotty horse at the moment.
As I said in yesterday's post, writing trash fires like Liz is super fun! Years ago I was doing an interview with someone and I said sometimes characters "just wander in from the cold" to describe how they show up, basically out of nowhere, and instantly establish themselves as a key character in whatever I'm doing with the strip at the time. I think I got the phrase from Berke Breathed of Bloom County and Outland fame. Hannelore was probably the first one to display this phenomenon, but it's happened repeatedly since then. What's interesting to me is that the characters who show up this way never really seem to fall by the wayside. Someone like Sven, for instance, has had some key moments in the strip, but I'll go long stretches without being able to focus on him because there are other things I feel more compelled to explore. It's not that I dislike writing him, he's just a lower priority most of the time. For some reason (part of the reason is I like drawing cute girls, let's be honest). Anyway, the point of all this is Liz was definitely one of those characters- maybe the most instantaneous "oh, okay yeah she is a big part of the comic now" vibe since Hannelore. The difference being that Hanners is a perfect angel who has never done anything wrong, and Liz is a malnourished sewer opossum who has never done anything right. And I love her for it.
