Eva says: “YOUNG?! She’s SIXTEEN! You guys tried to marry me off at FOURTEEN!!! How young is THAT?!!”

(Pauses to think.)

Eva says: “OH WAIT. Of course they mean ‘young’ regarding the LEVEL of EXPERIENCE in … CERTAIN … AREAS!!!!!”

Willie says: “………………………”

o-o-o-o-o

Last night I reread Driftwood from the very beginning, because the time had come to return to it after yet another long period of writer’s block. When I finished reading, I found it necessary to have a self-criticism meeting with myself!

I realised one thing that’s kind of funny (or sad?). I usually feel embarrassed about the first couple of chapters. But now that I reread them all I realised that the crappiest parts of the comic are actually not the first chapters, but a couple of very uninspired pages in chapter 7!
The first chapters might be very lacking on the technical side, but I was really doing my best most of the time, and managed to channel this weird, twisted energy into it. I picked up on the technical side pretty quickly, too, and compensated for what I wasn’t too good at yet.
Whereas in the past couple of years when I’ve been working on chapter 7, I really could have done much better than pages like 14, 15 and 21. And I think I’ve been using much too thin pens for inking some parts of the last couple of pages …

All in all, Driftwood, as it is now, is a comic like nothing else out there, and I am once again proud of being the one who gets to draw it.

All this probably sounds painfully obvious to everyone else, but I just have to remind myself once in a while … V`(oo)´V

However, the English translation of the first chapters here is really very, very bad. Maybe I can redo it some time. :3