Compare and Contrast (Patreon)

Hi $3 and up people, here's a little behind the scenes look at page 91. The one on the left is a pure, unadulterated scan. The right is the finished one. It's like one of those things in Highlights magazine, where you have to spot the differences. The first thing I always do is bump up the contrast, as you can see. 

This page gave me some trouble--I kind of hate that kid's face. But it was important to make his face annoying, because he is a jerk. Also, as you'll see on the left, I had him saying something else, a racial slur in fact, but I didn't feel good about it so I took it out. It makes sense for the time, for him to be saying something that horrible, but it just didn't feel right here. It was originally an insult to Edie's friend, Gloria, but I didn't think it worked. So I wrote different words and glued them on, because sometimes I like to be old school. 

I changed the second panel a lot. Photoshop his amazing. I hated the way I'd drawn Buddy's head, it was a weird shape, and too small. So I copied and pasted and clone-stamped. I clone stamp a lot. Someday I might need to go back in and neaten up those stamps, but for now I think they're pretty unnoticeable. 

Love you guys. Happy Saturday. 

M