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[manasecret]

I second the GM request and the gekko request.

Originally Posted by Dylflon

Also I don't think I really know anything about people like BreakABone and manasecret. So general info would do.

I've been curious about how you started your comic, who the characters represent, who writes and draws it with you, and which one of you gets the writing/drawing credits. (I think it's great.)

Like BaB I've been here and said a few things along the way to glean information on me. I have a history of posts that when I Google and bring old ones to my face, I realize how dumb they sound and (for a few) how drunk I must have been.

Real name David.
Graduated last May from Tulane University in New Orleans with a BSE in Electrical Engineering.
I was born and lived until I started university in Houston, TX.
After graduating, I moved back to my parents' home, where I currently live, while I pay off student debts.
I plan to move out in August with my girlfriend to wherever she goes to grad school, hopefully either Colorado or California.
It took a year or two for New Orleans to grow on me, but now I love it so much that I miss it every day. I visit my girlfriend there (also at Tulane until May this year) every couple weekends, which makes me very very happy.

The best thing I've ever done for myself in my life: starting September of 2004, I spent a year living abroad in Malta on a student exchange program. Every day I spend missing New Orleans I also spend dreaming about when I can go travel the world again.

Biggest bitch in my life: Katrina.

[Dylflon]

Originally Posted by manasecret

I've been curious about how you started your comic, who the characters represent, who writes and draws it with you, and which one of you gets the writing/drawing credits. (I think it's great.)

My girlfriend (Elaine) and myself met at Simon Fraser University in a poetry class and started dating about a month after we met. The university runs a student newspaper called the Peak and whenever we read their humour section we were disappointed by how crappy it was. We both agreed that we could make better comics than they could and so we started making our own comics. We ran them in the Peak for one semester but stopped when the humour editor changed. We hate the new humour editor so much that we don't submit our comics to the paper. I'm currently waiting for him to graduate so I can start running it there again.

The characters represent myself and Elaine. Of course they aren't really a lot like us (except in some of our comics inspired by actual conversations we've had) but they embody the sillier elements of our personality. The characters (us) are mainly there for identifiability but also sort of as a self-reflexive element to the comic since they aren't characters we made up. They're just vessels for the silly things we think up.

I write the comic and Elaine draws. We dabble in eachother's processes sometimes. Elaine has directly inspired a few of the comics as well as come up with the general ideas for a number of them. I sometimes draw small things within the comics that she is having trouble with including some objects but mostly expressions.

We've only ever had two guest writers. One of them being our very own Fox6 (Cam) who has entirely written a few comics and also wrote a few with me. And we have one comic that was written by Raphael Bob-Wakesburg of the Olde English sketch comedy troup.



And for BreakABone:

I'm 21 one in a month.
Been dating my girlfriend for 2 and 1/3 years.
In my third year of university studying film.
Currently in the editing process of a short film we shot last semester.
I work in a video store.
Uh...that's about everything that doesn't involve me delving deeper into my life. If anyone has specific questions, I can talk more later.