Re: Design

Persephone: I'm new to the world of web comics, but a friend showed me this one and I thought it was pretty cool. Especially liked the toaster incident, but I don't think the problem with the breasts is so much the size (although whether they could actually walk is something to think about) but the whole squared-off thing, in which case Charlotte's are worse than Amy's. Why not make them both a bit rounder? I think you should tell us more about Bob's romantic novels and glory days as a writer!

David: I am honoured that mine was one of the first webcomics you read. I'm just trying to maintain the high standard set by all Comic Genesis comics. Check out the links section for other webcomics you might enjoy. The toaster strips were lots of fun to write and draw. I don't know what it is about guys and fixing things but I'm rather proud of the glow effect I achieved when Jack's shirt was on fire.

Ah, yes. The breasts. The criticism of my depiction of women is mounting. Okay, forget what I've said in my defence up until now: I am dissatisfied with the way the women turned out, especially Charlotte.

When I first drew Charlotte she looked a little fat and everyone who read the strips said so. Then I redesigned her to be thinner but somehow the new design had kind of square-looking breasts. The thing is, I use templates of the characters to keep them consistent and trace over them. When I traced the square-breasted design, I drew the breasts round but when I went back to change the chubby version of Charlotte into the one that appears on the site now, I just scanned the template, cut out the fat one and pasted in the square-shaped one. I'm over-simplifying, the proccess actually took several weeks. The point is, I did not intend for Charlotte to be consistently square-breasted, I just couldn't have gone back and re-drawn each strip by hand to implement the new design so I pasted the same drawing in each time, it just happened to look a little square. Sorry about the mistake, there are only a few square-boobed strips left.

Anyway, after all that work I wasn't going to admit that the new design still didn't look quite right, was I? However, the overwhelming response from my readers has been that Charlotte looks wrong. I'm not arrogant enough to assume that everyone else is wrong and I'm right. I've been thinking of a way around the problem for a while now and I can now exclusively reveal for the first time, Persephone, that I am going to redesign Charlotte. Again. After the end of the current stroyline, you will see a new Charlotte with (hopefully) better proportions. I'm probably going to play around with Amy's design a little as well.

Without giving too much away about what's coming up in the future, I can promise that we will learn more about Bob's romance novels and that we haven't seen the last of the toaster, either. There will also be more about Michael and Charlotte's relationship, too. Thanks for the e-mail!

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