– Hi everyone. I have an announcement. Starting with this strip Modest Medusa will be switching to a Monday/Friday posting schedule. That means I’ll be posting just two strips a week for at least the next month. I’m trying very hard to finish up the Yeld RPG and some other Modest Medusa related projects and doing one less strip each week will help me devote more time to those projects and finally clear them off my desk. I really appreciate your patience. I anticipate returning to my regular schedule before the end of the summer (and the sooner the better, really).
– I’ll be a Clallam Bay WA this weekend for the Clallam Bay Comic Con. This is a fun little event hosted by Donna Bar. If you live in the area please stop by and say hi!
Ecksbox is going giant snake on us?
Or at least starting too and is very confused by it. Kind of like teenagers confused about their adolescence. 🙂
I think ‘gone giant snake’ is the appropriate term :/
We will see.
Somehow I doubt that. But she might have even longer snakes than GLaDOS.
I think Xbox is the real oldest
Things in Yeld have a tendency to effect people differently, why not aging?
Oh my, is Ecksbocks transforming into into an adult hydra? It is great that this is my first reaction and not that someone is pretending to be her.
Let’s just hope it’s not so accelerated a development that Ecksbocks wakes up one morning wondering where her hands went!
Are there no male hydra, Jake? I believe in Greek mythology there were only three gorgons, who were sisters.
We haven’t seen any male Hydra.
A question nicely dodged! Truthful but ambiguous
Ecksboks looks like a super mario enemy in the last panel 🙂 It’s adorable!
Ecksbocks has undergone a horrifying transformation from a half-snake child to a three-fifths-snake slightly older child!
Is the black-and-white pencil sketch look going to be a recurring thing for nighttime scenes on the farm?
I hope so, it really works for moments like this.
I think it will be. That wasn’t my original intent, but the response was very positive last time so I’m trying it again. I need to buy a better pencil though!
😀 I like it
Hey Jake, prospective webcomic writer here. I want to ask you some things: How do you write? Do you use a comic book-style script? If so, do you ever have anyone else look over the script and ‘edit’/beta-read it and give you feedback before the page gets illustrated?
I spend a lot of time brainstorming my plot, and I usually have a good idea of what will happen in the comic a year or two in advance. Actual strip to strip events and gags are planned out a few strips ahead of time. When it comes time to actually write the script I write it in the margins of the comic page i’m drawing before I start drawing. (I’ll post a photo of what I mean on Friday, butbasiclly I work the script out (often including the gags) right on the page before I start drawing.
I don’t generally show anyone my strips before I publish them, but sometimes if I’m not sure if a joke makes sense or ifI’m afraid I may be doing something that will make my readers uncomfortable or if someone just happens to be hanging around I might get their opinion.
But thats for writing strips. For multi-page story based comics (like the Whither Away sequence or Ghost Kiss) I do often write everything out ahead of time (although my scripts are actually closer to thumbnails with text scribbled in) and I will usually run the whole thing by another writer for advice.