um, I’m confused. are you actually drawing these, Miguel? they’re rather funny.
but you know people will assume they’re metaphors for you and your family?
quite Kafka-esque…
Miguel
Yes, it works like this: sometimes I have an idea, sometimes I just draw a whole bunch of bugs. Then I scan them and move them around in Photoshop and add the text (X-files font, I believe, which is a screwed-up typewriter font yet more legible than some of that ilk). Then I post the resulting strips to Raising Hell (the more realistic ones, situations more or less lifted from my life) and here (some realistic, some fictional). Then, if people laugh, I make t-shirts out of them at cafepress and try to flog them here. They have a rubbery feel to them, I hear, by the way, if you’re into that. The good thing about cafepress is *zero overhead*. The bad thing is, with all the post and handling charges they charge, and the big bite they take, I set prices relatively low to keep from totally ripping people off, at $2 over what cafepress charges, meaning someone buying a shirt pays, say, $16.99 plus shipping, and I get $2 of that. But I’m not complaining, zero overhead, like I said, and you can set up a store in 15 seconds.
um, I’m confused. are you actually drawing these, Miguel? they’re rather funny.
but you know people will assume they’re metaphors for you and your family?
quite Kafka-esque…
Yes, it works like this: sometimes I have an idea, sometimes I just draw a whole bunch of bugs. Then I scan them and move them around in Photoshop and add the text (X-files font, I believe, which is a screwed-up typewriter font yet more legible than some of that ilk). Then I post the resulting strips to Raising Hell (the more realistic ones, situations more or less lifted from my life) and here (some realistic, some fictional). Then, if people laugh, I make t-shirts out of them at cafepress and try to flog them here. They have a rubbery feel to them, I hear, by the way, if you’re into that. The good thing about cafepress is *zero overhead*. The bad thing is, with all the post and handling charges they charge, and the big bite they take, I set prices relatively low to keep from totally ripping people off, at $2 over what cafepress charges, meaning someone buying a shirt pays, say, $16.99 plus shipping, and I get $2 of that. But I’m not complaining, zero overhead, like I said, and you can set up a store in 15 seconds.
Overall, it’s a very romantic, creative process.
thats hilarious. thanks so much for the read! :)