Gabe's Wired interview

[Drooling Iguana]

Originally Posted by Mashirosen

Exactly.

Brian can't draw -- I mean really -- but I do think he has an artist's aesthetic sensibilities. He has an excellent understanding of visual storytelling techniques, he just can't actually draw the characters and objects and settings used to express them. It seems kind of like being a director who can't act but knows what good acting is and how to coax it out of his performers. I think this is what separates him from most sprite comics.

I always thought that what seperated Brian from most sprite comics is that Brian is a carbon-based humanoid life form, while most sprite comics are digitized images posted on websites.

[AerodynamicHair]

Brian has done something a bit different. Sure, he may not have the artistic ability to create visual characters, but at least he goes to work making sure that comic looks just the way he would like it too. Clevinger's work is proof enough that sprite comics aren't for the lazy, that to make one good you have to put a little work into the display, go into photoshop a little, play around until you get something that fits perfectly. In that sense, though the characters weren't his creation, most of the art is still technically his, and its very good for photoshop.

Its good to have a butt-kissing rant every once and a while.

Of course, when you look back at the first comic, you see how far the background work has gone.

And I still find nothing really offensive in that article.