At this point, Flo was often redoing dialogue on the fly while lettering. The original script for the first two panels, shown below, does not display Flo’s ease with gaming jargon (which she knew better than me) as the final […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chrissie’s inclusion in the story was meaningful to us on several levels, as it turned out. Like Xan and Shanna (and no other characters in Guilded Age), she had first appeared in another project I’d written. Unlike Xan’s Sketchies and Shanna’s Fans, it was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Panel 4: “Ha ha! Their marriage was a prison! Wasn’t this a fun idea of mine?” I’ve had enough good roommate experiences that I know I wasn’t that bad at cohabitating, but I’ve had my share of bad ones, too. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have already mentioned the story of my own worst Christmas that inspired this tale, but we changed some details around for this version: would’ve felt too much like an invasion of privacy otherwise. And Chrissie’s forgiving lens is reluctant […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m on pretty good terms with most of my exes, and lucky enough that I didn’t fall into any really bad long-term relationships (or ltr’s, in Kaye’s parlance). But I did have brief involvements with a couple of people whose […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
