This week should be interesting and helpful for some of you…I hope. I get emails from readers asking me what steps do I take to create the comics. So I thought I would take this week to show the steps. For the next five days, I will update the same comic from start to finish.

Step 1: Sketch

After Ananth and I discuss what the next comic should be about, he sends me a script. The script has all the info I need to draw the next comic. Unless it’s very important, Ananth tells me a vague description of each panel. This allows me to play around with the whole comic. For example, in Issue 45, the squirrel was never written in the script. He was an idea I decided to put in for the hell of it. For some odd reason, he became a big hit.

I drew Issue 245 with the Wacom Cintiq tablet. The software I used was Alias Sketchbook Pro. The software does a pretty good job on mimicking pencil and paper.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here.

Tomorrow I will post the ink version.

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