Unsolicited Advice from the Mouths of Men-Children

Part of the freedom of working as an artist on this comic while Mary writes the scripts is that I'm free to consider the non-verbal action going on. Mary is kind enough to accomodate most of the artistic wankery, unless she's been specific for any kind of reason in the script, so I can play around with panels and composition inside panels. Close-ups like the central tier of this one, with the egg and the coffee, aren't the kind of things that tend to occur to you when writing a script (as, at least in my experience, you're more interested in nailing down the dialogue, pacing and general flow of action.)
I like to think of this whole comic experiment as a collaborative effort where each of us complements the other. Mary's scripts are specific about what she wants, but back off on being anal about all the details so that I have something fun to play with on the art, so I'm not just a robot churning out what I'm ordered to do. Conversely, I get to play around with the art so long as I'm communicating the story and dialogue that she's laid down.
I do tend to bang on a lot about artistic experimentation in these rants, and while a lot of readers might not get what I'm talking about and might think these pages look just likes a comic page should, then that's sort of the point: if Mary and I are doing our jobs properly on this comic, then no-one's going to notice. If we do everything right you should read and understand as fluidly as reading a page of well-written prose. I don't tend to notice knockout work in comics unless I look for it, but reading a lot of webcomics I sure as hell notice ones that don't really have much of a clue about how comics are supposed to work, with no consideration of pacing and frame layout, or in-panel composition, or economy of dialogue, which is terribly important.


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The kitchen layout is sort-of based on my parents' kitchen in England, except the boiler is on the opposite side of the back door and the whole room is wider so that it accomodates a table. The appliances are also different than those of my parents, most notably the gas stove being replaced by an electric one, which is largely because electric stoves are a lot easier to draw and you don't have to mess around with colouring and lighting like you do with gas stoves.
Despite this, the layout of the flat in its entirety is at best uncertain and at worst physically impossible.