I dropped by Vericon, a sci-fi/fantasy/gaming/anime con at Harvard this weekend, to check out their awesome webcomics panel: R Stevens (Diesel Sweeties), Shaenon Garrity (Smithson,Narbonic), Jeff Rowland (Wigu, Overcompensating), and Paul Southworth (Ugly Hill).
The mood was informal, and the panelists spent most of their time parrying questions from the audience, ranging from queries about specific characters to general questions about the creative process. This last question led to an interesting comparison among the four. “I write a lot of stuff down on receipts as I walk around,” said Stevens. “I doodle it all out in rough stick figures and play this weird thing on the computer. I keep getting faster computers and I keep getting faster at Photoshop.”
“I caght him once with headphones on and it was like he was playing piano,” said Rowland. Continue reading →