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Obsidian drew me into his comic!  I’m the one in the green shirt.  Also included in the photo are Marty, Kev and Blondie, Dern and Kendra, Lar and Spike.  I hear there may be others.  Can you spot them?  Post in the comments!  LINK.

A Little Backstory of Why I Love Being a Webcomic Artist

This summer I attended Connecticon and got a chance to hang with Colombia’s own premiere webcomic artist Obsidian.  I have been listening to him on Extra Life Radio and reading his comic for years, and since we were doing a Super Art Fight as part of the convention, the chance to meet him and include him in the show was like wish fulfillment.

The amazing part about it all is that he didn’t really know anybody (that wasn’t amazing for him, mind you).  As such, I met him at the very beginning of the con and got to hang with him and his cohort Lord Ebo pretty much the whole time.  I showed him around what the con was like and he quickly fell into the group of webcomic friends that I’ve been lucky enough to form over the last couple of years of convention touring. The great thing about a group like this is all you need to do to join is have a website and be a nice dude (or fem-dude) and you’re pretty much in like Flynn.  Next thing you know you have another person to talk to online, another person linking to your site, and every once in a while someone does something cool like draws you into their stuff.

So thanks, O! You rock.  I hope you come back to Connecticon or some other convention I get to do, and the Super Art Fight stage always has a place for you.

Yesterday I started making a series of bad jokes on Twitter that went like this:

Designers do it intentionally.

Designers do it with client approval.

Designers do it in italics.

Designers do it with Photoshop.

Designers do it under budget.

Designers do it with Pantone (TM).

Designers do it with typefaces.

Soon, others started joining in!

@konistehrad: Extreme Programmers do it two to a monitor … man we’re a sad race.

@spkr4thedead51: Designers do it on a wire-frame.

@MattMelvin: Designers do it the right way, until the client requests otherwise.

@spkr4thedead51: Designers do it in layers.

@AngelicHapa: Designers do it in Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black?

@nocommayes: Designers do it thanklessly.

@MattMelvin: Freelance designers do it at home, alone.

@Sekelsky: Designers do it with white space.

@breegeek: Web designers do it in RGB

Have any more you’d like to add? Post them in the comments!