Designing a new character was fun, but it took a long time. I’ve been dealing with writer’s block a lot since the beginning of the Fall 2008 semester, so a good story comes with the sacrifice of valuable work time. This one was actually thought up and drawn during that semester, but was published just last week. I’m posting them together to make the story seem more unified.
Working under the constraints of a three-day week in a paper is problematic for a story that runs more than two or three gags long. I could have drawn out the process of revealing that the “other Dalmatian” was telling the truth about Spot being int he show with him, and I think it would have been more interesting, but, you know…constraints, constraints, constraints.
I wanted to take this story farther. I’m a little sorry I didn’t, but there was the risk of running the story for more than a week…and that tends to lose readers’ interest in the context of a student newspaper, I’m told. I don’t know if that’s actually true, but I’ll admit, dividing the third one into three separate comics seems a little ploy-driven. I’d be doing the same type of humor (insults and comebacks) three or more times in a row. That would be a bit too much.
