How to Camouflage an Unsightly Facial Blemish

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Instead of coming from a photograph, the woman in panel 2 and the guy in panel 4 were drawn from a program that allows artists to manipulate and pose 3D models of people. That’s why they’re both in unrealistically good shape. There was a way to make the characters heavier, but they didn’t gain weight realistically. (Turns out many people use the program in question to make computer generated erotica. We truly do live in the future!)

In the end, I decided using the program was only a good idea if I wanted the comic to be populated with abnormally attractive people.

Note from Missy: Abnormally attractive, and weirdly robotic. Though I think those programs have improved in the 9 years since this was done.  (So the erotica is … more realistic, I guess?)

 

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How to Camouflage an Unsightly Facial Blemish

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Instead of coming from a photograph, the woman in panel 2 and the guy in panel 4 were drawn from a program that allows artists to manipulate and pose 3D models of people. That’s why they’re both in unrealistically good shape. There was a way to make the characters heavier, but they didn’t gain weight realistically. (Turns out many people use the program in question to make computer generated erotica. We truly do live in the future!)

In the end, I decided using the program was only a good idea if I wanted the comic to be populated with abnormally attractive people.

Note from Missy: Abnormally attractive, and weirdly robotic. Though I think those programs have improved in the 9 years since this was done.  (So the erotica is … more realistic, I guess?)

 

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How to Combat the Silent Treatment

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The word balloon in panel four is way down low to signify that there is a long silence before I say it. A lot of comedy is in the timing, and it’s hard to communicate timing in a written medium.

About The Prisoner. I owned the whole series as a DVD box set, then when it came out on Blu-ray I got that too. The changes were interesting, not just in that the Blu-ray version took up way fewer disks and was much sharper. The most interesting thing was that the documentaries and commentaries on the DVD were made while the show’s star and creator, Patrick McGoohan, was still alive. The ones on the Blu-ray were made after he died.

The tone was dramatically different.

One paints him as an uncompromising visionary who was just too far ahead of his time to be understood. The other describes a tyrannical jerk who bullied a beloved character actor to the point that the poor man had a nervous breakdown. It also says that he was making things up as he went, wrote himself into a corner, and had to just spew out some nonsense to wrap it all up.

Not surprising really, that a person who created a show about a man constantly fighting against everybody and everything was, in his real life, a bit prickly. Watch the show’s opening credits (if you have THREE MINUTES to kill. TV used to be very different.) and try to tell me that’s the work of a mellow guy. It was, essentially, a show about belligerently refusing to answer questions.

Also, who packs for a trip to a tropical island, and brings along a big picture of a tropical island? It’s like he intends to raise hell if the beach doesn’t match the picture.

 

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How to Combat the Silent Treatment

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The word balloon in panel four is way down low to signify that there is a long silence before I say it. A lot of comedy is in the timing, and it’s hard to communicate timing in a written medium.

About The Prisoner. I owned the whole series as a DVD box set, then when it came out on Blu-ray I got that too. The changes were interesting, not just in that the Blu-ray version took up way fewer disks and was much sharper. The most interesting thing was that the documentaries and commentaries on the DVD were made while the show’s star and creator, Patrick McGoohan, was still alive. The ones on the Blu-ray were made after he died.

The tone was dramatically different.

One paints him as an uncompromising visionary who was just too far ahead of his time to be understood. The other describes a tyrannical jerk who bullied a beloved character actor to the point that the poor man had a nervous breakdown. It also says that he was making things up as he went, wrote himself into a corner, and had to just spew out some nonsense to wrap it all up.

Not surprising really, that a person who created a show about a man constantly fighting against everybody and everything was, in his real life, a bit prickly. Watch the show’s opening credits (if you have THREE MINUTES to kill. TV used to be very different.) and try to tell me that’s the work of a mellow guy. It was, essentially, a show about belligerently refusing to answer questions.

Also, who packs for a trip to a tropical island, and brings along a big picture of a tropical island? It’s like he intends to raise hell if the beach doesn’t match the picture.

 

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How to Tell if You're Getting Sick

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Yeah, in retrospect I see Rick’s point. It does ring false when he wins. Of course, I can’t be sure if it rings false for thematic reasons or just because I know the real Rick and know how rare a victory is for him.

For the record, the last time I was in Seattle I hung around with Rick, and he got a belly ache by eating too much candy, which is quite a coincidence.

 

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How to Tell if You're Getting Sick

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Yeah, in retrospect I see Rick’s point. It does ring false when he wins. Of course, I can’t be sure if it rings false for thematic reasons or just because I know the real Rick and know how rare a victory is for him.

For the record, the last time I was in Seattle I hung around with Rick, and he got a belly ache by eating too much candy, which is quite a coincidence.

 

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How to Describe a TV Show

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Shortly after this comic ran, I got a nice e-mail from Mary Alice, the receptionist for Charm City Cakes on the show Ace of Cakes. Later, when they did an Ace of Cakes book (http://amzn.to/1T4b6fC ) they asked if they could put the comic in the foreword.

I also noticed a copy of the comic hanging in the bakery on the show.

I’d like to be able to say that I eventually stopped becoming giddy whenever I’d see my comic on TV, but that would be a lie.

Note from Missy: I miss Ace of Cakes. We need more kind, gentle shows on TV. And on that note, I wonder when the next series of The Great British Baking Show is going to air.

 

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How to Describe a TV Show

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Shortly after this comic ran, I got a nice e-mail from Mary Alice, the receptionist for Charm City Cakes on the show Ace of Cakes. Later, when they did an Ace of Cakes book (http://amzn.to/1T4b6fC ) they asked if they could put the comic in the foreword.

I also noticed a copy of the comic hanging in the bakery on the show.

I’d like to be able to say that I eventually stopped becoming giddy whenever I’d see my comic on TV, but that would be a lie.

Note from Missy: I miss Ace of Cakes. We need more kind, gentle shows on TV. And on that note, I wonder when the next series of The Great British Baking Show is going to air.

 

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