Remember when I was trying to decide between doing a 3 page Plant-Man + Flowerin’ story and a 3 page Action Sally story for Groovy Gravy 11?

Well, er, I decided to do both. Because I’m an idiot, that’s why.

Anyway.

I showed the art to a couple of people after they were done, just to prove to myself that I did actually make these things and it wasn’t some kind of crazy hallucination, and got an interesting piece of feedback:

“How Well Could You Draw if You Actually Cared?”

After some umms and errs, it turns out that I was being asked that because some of the art (especially in the Action Sally story) was quite good, but I made a couple of errors here and there.

My reasoning for this was that I was under the gun, time wise, and I’m the kind of guy that cares more about hitting the deadline over making sure everything’s perfect. A couple of other people in the room didn’t think that was a clever idea, since they’re used to taking forever to do a comic.

But on the other hand, none of these people do a daily comic strip and a 3 page a week adventure / comedy comic. Deadlines are a fact of life for any cartoonist that wants to build an audience rather than just please themselves with their art (though that in itself is a noble goal)

So which is better? Consistency in schedule or consistency in aesthetics?

And I’m choosing not to take the comment as an insult

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