What is the process involved in making Nowhere Girl?
Generally when I’ve been asked this, it’s confined to the art of Nowhere Girl, so I’ll keep this answer to that alone (the writing largely consists of me, alone, in a padded room, banging my head against the walls and scribbling in my own blood on a splinter-filled wooden tablet). I start the art as 8 & 1/2 x 11 sheets, drawn in blueline, non-photo pencil. Scribble scribble. Then, when I’m satisfied I draw the final pencils over the top of the bluelines. More and more I’m finding I re-use the same backgrounds, or even the same shots of the characters, over multiple panels. Rather than drawing these again and again in each panel (and later rendering them multiple times), I tape a piece of tracing paper over the top of my paper, turn on my lightbox underneath so the existing linework shines through the tracing paper, and then I do lots of little panels, or the foregrounds, backgrounds, characters, hands over a keyboard, whatever, on separate sheets of tracing paper. Then I scan the whole
