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hey! it’s that comic! starry knights! go read page one!!!

also bookmark it and check back, yes yes.

in retrospect: oh god page one is like, almost embarassing. I swear, I get better at the drawings. D:

in which Megan is panicking about making comics

ok, you know what? putting this under one of those cuts. it’s ridiculously long, and if you aren’t interested in my floundering, the only redeeming quality is this link to a Chris Ware Q&A.

anyway, for lots of Megan Being Confused And Not Making Sense click:

well aren’t you posting frequently, Megan?

go: 3 drawings on DeviantArt. I ARE PROLIFIC. or not.

am conflicted over quality of my comic pages. I think I definitely need school to teach me how to not go so fast and sloppily. I like to hope I have lots of potential under all my inkblots and wobbly lines.

on the other hand, the pages are getting better, I think. In terms of how they are arranged and how they are drawn. It’s also getting easier and easier to draw everyone. but I know my weaknesses. hopefully when we get out of the current scene (lots of conversation), I’ll make better backgrounds, etc…:/ trying to think about line weight more. Still should get a ruler, I know. No one else finds my panels charming, right?

Isn’t there a CD with a cartoon-themed title?

anyway, I’ve been kind of regressing in that I suddenly am watching bunches of anime (well, kind of) and some cartoons.

you should all check out flapjack, which is on cartoon network, or cartoon network.com. it’s really cute. and I am kind of in love with the way the ocean and sky, etc looks in it:

I’ve also been watching the anime Lucky Star. while not as good as The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya which is the other anime I’ve been hooked on lately, Lucky Star has kind of grown on me. It’s still kind of the poor man’s Azumanga Daioh, though.

I think my next post may be a really weird picture-filled thing about why a side character in a random manga is awesome. look forward to it!

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so, I’m getting back to work on the comic, and that’s good. I need to plan like crazy at this point, and I think that’s kind of what I hate the most. I keep trying to make my pages less….uniform? I mean, I got this jarring thing when I was reading some manga for the first time in a while, and looked at how crazy the pages are. like, there’ll be like, pages with two or three panels, and then the next has like, a completely different layout…

I’m not going for a fully manga-ized style of telling a story, but I want to keep it in mind, you know? hmm.

 

I want to make this today: catbus papercraft

well, I aleady pimped it all over facebook

see Regan & Mel Productions for all comic-related shenanigans.

Preview.

of the comic me and Rel are working on. 

some of my favorite panels: