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"What happens now? Nothing.
Just the rest of our lives."
--Lloyd Noll
Frequently Asked Questions
What? FAQ? Where's the comic? This is a comic, right?
For aestethic reasons I've decided not to keep the comic on the front page. Follow instead that link near the top of the page that says "Comic". Or this one.
I knew that, silly. So what is it about?
A lot of things. Frindship most of all, I guess. It's the story of a few quite regular persons and their journey through life, and various other fantastic places.
There sure is a lot of text on the pages, haven't you considered writing a book instead?
Actually, I am writing a book. In swedish - my native language. What you see here is the comic version. Of course I can't draw very well so I rely on my words to convey the more complex parts of the story.
Moving on, what's the update schedule like?
Well, I was planning on updating every day. That never works though, at least it hasn't for me in the past. But this might work differently, seeing as I've already got a massive deal of story written. Plus I've got a variant of "Dead Piro day" ready for when I need it. So we'll say every day, unless something happens.
Who is this Jenny character? I R confused!
Yes, is hould probably explain that. The Jenny Creed you know from the Internet, aka. Invisible Queen, is not the Jenny Creed featured in the comic. Comic Jenny existed first, I created her in 2002 if memory serves. My imaginary friend Jenny didn't have a name at that point. But she spent a lot of time online, and figured that she wanted a name. So she took that one, figuring then that Comic Jenny, who at this point existed only in a unfinished swedish novel, wouldn't be confused with herself. And there you go. Technically it's a case of the author recycling names.
(Yes, I have an imaginary friend, and I let her chat on the Internet all day. Using my body. Technically that's a multiple personality disorder. Not my only disorder; I have been officially diagnosed
with Asperger's.)
Pray tell, how is the comic done?
With gusto! And with a variety of equipment. I've got a 250 dollar mousepad of the Wacom brand that I sometimes, very rarely, use for coloring. Most of the time I draw with ink on paper, the old-fashioned way. Always starting with the eyes, if possible. I guess the eyes are central to my characters, even if they only turn out the way I want half the time. The idea is to have the shape of the eyes express their emotions, which theoretically sounds really easy.
Then I scan it into the computer, using a copy of Neil Gaiman's "Endless Nights" to get a black background behind the paper. (The insides of the cover of that book constitute the largest flat black surface in my house.) This is because the lid of the scanner, stupidly, is white and makes the paper see-through, which takes away about 80% of the ink. As a side effect, the whites on the page aren't really white but a highly dilluted black, which is cool.
Then I correct the horrible amounts of errors using MS Paint and, sometimes, a "borrowed" copy of Photoshop. Coloring and resizing is normally done entirely with PS though, so everyone's happy.
Zzzz.
Hey, you can wake up now.
Right. Next question. Why did you decide to make this comic? I thought you'd learned your lesson after the last comic failed after four strips, which were horrible to start with.
Well, thereby hangs a tale. I had a dream in which I had the power to do anything I could think of. (That happens a lot.) And what I did was this comic. It was artistically masterful and very classy - I created money to buy a server, an assistant to make the HTML and so on. And everybody loved it. And then I thought, I should make that comic for real. It won't be as pretty, it won't make me as famous, but by God it's a story I want to tell.
And, interestingly, The Mountain at the End of the World was originally created as a comic. I was greatly inspired by It Never Rains (you can still see it in my art), and created the world in which the first chapters of the story is set. Then I went on to doubt my artistic ability, and realized I could fuse in the five or six stories I was writing at the time and make it a real, long hard and quivering novel, and so I started writing instead. And lately I've started doubting my writing abilities. . . but I'm sure that's just a coincidence. ^_^
You still have that writer streak in you, trust me. I can tell from the length of those answers.
Thank you. Next question?
Hold it, I'm asking the questions here. Haha, you almost got me there, but I know these FAQ tricks. So, next question: How does one reach you?
You mean besides being the voice in my head, like yourself? Right. Mail me at skapare @ gmail . com
And I mean it, please mail me. Anything you want. Except viruses.
Okay, that's all, goodbye.
What? No, don't leave yet. Have some coffee, a cookie- noo, don't go! Don't leave me. . . alone.
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