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Girl Genius Comic for Monday, March 06, 2023

Added 2023-03-05 22:45:56 +0000 UTC

While I'm lettering these pages, I think a lot about writers like Neil Gaiman who write up their scripts and then send them off to someone else to draw and letter. I'm terrifically impressed by their ability, I can't imagine how they do it. (In Mr. Gaiman's case, I'm impressed by a whole lot more than his ability to script without pictures in front of him, but he's the one who comes to mind the most because I like him.)

I'm still wrestling with the exact right words as I'm putting them into balloons, and the way a scene or a character looks makes a huge difference for me. I've frequently redone whole sections of dialog because the character was making a face that suggested something other than what was in the storyboard*, and I'm always happier with what I wound up with. I honestly hate lettering comics, but I'm not good enough as a writer to give up that last-minute control over the combination of art and words. So I guess I'm stuck with the job.

Anyway, this page would have been up a lot sooner, but that second panel took me days to hammer into shape. I just couldn't get the right idea into the right words. I'm now happy with what I've got, so here it is!

Thanks everyone!

--Kaja

*and don't even get me started on the storyboards that get the idea across but have no useable dialog on them at all, just a lot of nonsense or comedy noises or everyone screaming variations of "F*ck no!" Thanks, Phil.