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Hello, everybody. I've been quiet for awhile due to college classes. One more term left! Then I'm done.

For the final two classes, I'm allowed to take anything I want, so long as they're 300+ courses. One class is about writing for comics and the other is utilizing that knowledge to create a comic in collaboration with someone else in the class. We will be making two 20-24 page comics over ten weeks. Each student draws one comic and writes the other.

Will I learn anything? No idea. Hoping to meet some cool people, though. Once that's over... I don't know what the hell it is I'm going to do. I can start doing other things, like going back to doing my comics and getting a Patreon started because I will have the time to finally do it and stay on a schedule. I also have a lot of other things I want to draw and write about. Maybe continue writing something I've been wanting to make into a real book.

Oh yeah. Gotta get a better paying job, too.

Kamal wants me to do more illustrations of him. And only him. Like drawing you for one of my comics isn't enough, already...?
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The classes I'm taking don't give me a lot of assignments. It's the sheer amount of READING I have to do every day to stay caught up in order to answer important questions in class every day and to complete the weeklong assignments due at the end of every week.

I don't have time to draw anything until Spring Break.
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On top of school getting more busy, what I will post next is a series of pictures using Kamal's ref sheet. And since it'll be done as actions in sequence, I want to post them all together.

Thanks for being patient with me. I know I'm not the fastest artist in the world. Still slow. @_@
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Hello, to the people who read what I write on DeviantArt, among other places.

I haven't posted anything in awhile. Three things are happening: First, I was working on my presentation for my senior capstone project. It got approved a few weeks ago and it made me very happy. So long as things work out for college as I hope it will, I will graduate early next year.

Second, I'm catching up on all of the video games I am interested in that are coming out this Summer, as well as playing the games I didn't have time for while school was in.

Third, I've been sort of depressed. For reasons I won't write about on the Internet. I appreciate concern from people I am internet-quainted with, but... I will talk about it with friends. As soon as I find the words.

I know, it's bad when webcomic updates are terribly sporadic. This is a huge No-No for serious webcomics. I appreciate anyone with a webcomic that does this. They're very dedicated.
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I'm gonna need some help oh how to do this in a way that makes both me and everyone else who wants to participate happy. Your participation in this is very important because it will affect how I end up doing cameo and guest appearances in the short term and in the long term.

We will be talking about two things: Cameo appearances and Guest appearances.

I want these in Me and Him to be enjoyable. Something I will have a personal amount of fun doing. Usually it's gonna be me, Kamal, Lisha, and Meow Meow. But what if we need extra background characters? I want that space filled by someone or a group who have a recognizable face. Or at least an avatar, you know? I don't want them to be faceless randoms. In this case, we have a Cameo. I'd say more than half of the time, characters who come in as cameos won't be saying anything at all. They'll probably be doing something in the background and will only appear for a single panel. The cameo's significance is mostly small. That's why it's called a cameo.

Then we have Guests. As a Guest, you'll have a bigger role. This means your character will be drawn more than once. Guests will stick around for an entire gag. I'll do what I can to make sure the Guest is always part of a punchline. What your character is doing/saying must be relevant to what's happening in the current skit/gag. It would be really dumb if I want a guest to participate in a punchline, but someone wants me to write, "I was here," or "Hi Mom, hi Dad," instead. A non-sequitur has a time and place, but not here. That's not funny and that's not original.

I might end up putting a paywall on Guests. I can easily see a Guest appearance spanning multiple pages. These take a lot of time and I don't want to be adding a Guest to the comic for free. Either that or I'm going to keep Guests only to friends I know well or people I personally want in the comic to appear.

As for actual character portrayal: I want any characters I borrow as close to how they're supposed to be as possible. I'm a purist in that respect. But how to do it, actually? I was thinking of doing YCH-like openings.

When I finish my second draft, I'll start with a YCH-like submission. It'll be a messy preview of the next page and advertises where the YCH character will go. I may need multiple characters on occasion. Then it comes down to people actually submitting their characters to be in. Those interested in taking up a spot will have to fill in the blanks. Who am I drawing? Do I need to do anything specific and would be in-character of them to do? If they're gonna talk, what will they say?

Here's the hardest part: How do I choose who ultimately ends up getting in? I assume I'm gonna pick the person who has the best punchline, but that could be the same person over and over again who gets my sense of humor better than anyone else. And how are we going to explain how that same person has a dozen different jobs? There needs to be variety, because I certainly want more than one person participating or a small group, so... it'll be a little random?
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