Why was it important for “Misery Loves Company” to be released daily during the work week?
I think a lot of people want to do a daily strip until the actual work of doing it daily is required. It’s not easy to write and draw a strip and be funny and not take a break. As an amateur, you have the freedom to draw when inspiration hits, but when you have a deadline, it cuts the wheat from the chaff. Plus, after 18 years on a deadline, I don’t know any other way. Do you draw the strip by hand? I have a spiral notebook I write and rewrite the strips in. I draw out the strips in non-photo blue pencil, letter with a rapidograph, ink with a brush, do the balloons with a quill pen, then scan them in. I’ve tried a few times to work directly on the computer. I know it’s easier, cleaner and more forgiving, but I love the ink on my hands, the happy accidents and to hold the final product in my hand. How does that compare to how you work on, say, “Franklin Richards?” Totally different. To write “Franklin,” I come up with a premise and work from there. It doesn’t need joke after joke and I
