Interviews Conducted by Robert J. Beck

 channel other aspects of creativity. Oh, and I'm just starting
a sci-fi strip, which will eventually grow out into a much
bigger, separate project...but that'll take a while.

What is the process of actually making a strip?

I put together a short video showing how I do it, actually!
http://vimeo.com/1496263
 It's all old school: hand-drawn, hand-lettered archival India
inks on vellum Bristol paper. Nothing digital until it's
scanned in.

Do you have a favourite strip that you've done?

There are just shy of 3,000 strips in the archive, now, so it's impossibly hard for me to choose.

Do you ever find it hard to come up with a new idea for a strip?

I find my bigger problem is in capturing ideas: Forgetting to write an idea down, forgetting to leave myself a voicemail...all the little simple things I *should* be doing to remember ideas, that I don't do at times. I've lost a lot of great ideas that way, back into the ether.

You are part of a group called halfpixel.com, can you tell us a bit about this group?

We're four independent web-cartoonists who operate our businesses and strips separately, but from time-to-time band together for little projects, like our Harvey-nominated book "How To Make Webcomics", or our podcast "Webcomics Weekly", or the how-to site "Webcomics.com". Any project we can think of that has the word "webcomics" in it, apparently. "Webcomics Lawncare" is probably our next project.