Updated F.A.Q.
/Hello! It’s been awhile and thought I should update the FAQ:
1. Where are you? Have you stopped updating?
The original story was finished, but I have a lot more in my head, and some are written. Unfortunately, life got in the way for awhile and I was unable to work on anything for a long time. I had to move a few times, family members got sick, changed jobs, and I had my own mystery illness that kept me from doing much of anything. But now I’m back to updating a new story!
2. What the heck is Tails of the Wasteland?
I always thought of Scurry as an anthology series of different stories and characters set around the postapocalyptic future, but I also want to keep the original story of Wix, Pict and the others going as well. TotW will be other stories set in the Scurry-verse, inbetween proper sequels to the original story. I will probably experiment with different things, including the art style.
3. Webcomics are ok I guess, but is there a physical copy I can buy?
The trade paperback of the first Scurry story can be found here: https://www.scurrycomic.com/tpb-links
Kickstarter for the latest book coming soon!
4. How long does it take to create a page?
I can manage about 2 pages a week, not including the writing. I work on at least two pages at once so I don't get too picky about details and stuff. I've done up to 6 pages in a week before (the dialogue scenes usually take less time than the action ones). Also, the cats are murderously time consuming, so they take longer.
I spend around 12 hours per page, sometimes a lot more.
5. This story reminds me of _______. What are your influences?
Mainly, The Secret of NIMH, lots of 80s movies like The Goonies, some Disney animated movies, George Miller's movies (from Road Warrior to Babe, Pig in the City :) ), lots of apocalyptic movies, and a handful of other things. I haven't read any Redwall or most of the other stories people have mentioned, but they are on my list of things to read.
6. Do you use a Cintiq or Intuos? Which is better?
I mostly use an Intuos these days, but I use an old Cintiq occasionally. There is no difference in quality, it's just personal preference and price. I know many professionals that use and even prefer and Intuos.
7. Are you doing commissions?
I'm not doing commissions at this time.
8. I can has your brushes?
They can be found here (these are very old). New ones coming soon.
9. Where did you go to school?
Nowhere, unless you count the one semester I was a graphic design major, but I only took one art class, and it was an art history class, so I don't count it. I'm self taught.
10. How long have you been drawing/painting?
For one billion years, but professionally only about 20 years.
11. What kind of machinery/black magic do you use to create this nonsense?
Answer:
Software: Photoshop, and occasionally Blender.
Intuos tablet and sometimes a Cintiq.
Razor Nostromo Game Pad (for hot keys)
12. How did you make your site?
I use squarespace, so a lot of the design comes from them. However, SS doesn’t have a comic template for comics. After some digging I found a guy who managed to tweak the code to make one of the Squarespace templates work as a comic template, but unfortunately it’s not available anymore and I don’t know much about coding.