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Ruth and Sarah have led very, very, very different lives.
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April 17th, 2014 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Langland
    Langland
    April 17, 2014 at 3:42 am | # | Reply

    Can you say Awkward?

  2. V
    V
    April 17, 2014 at 9:50 am | # | Reply

    My dad brought me to my first convention, and wants to come with me to conventions again. In all honesty my dad really is the “Cool Dad” for fellow geeks, so I guess I may never understand.

  3. EcchiKitty
    EcchiKitty
    April 17, 2014 at 11:27 am | # | Reply

    MY DAD’S -DEAD-!! *sob* *sob* …okay, he seriously is, but it was years ago.

    I think Anime would have confused him, but he liked Star Trek.

    Mom took my brother and I to a couple of Conventions back when we couldn’t drive ourselves. She found them weird, but accepted she had weird kids. Enough stuff around she didn’t get bored.

  4. Chiaroscuro
    Chiaroscuro
    April 17, 2014 at 7:13 pm | # | Reply

    I had my dad *staff* my convention.

  5. Langland
    Langland
    April 17, 2014 at 10:07 pm | # | Reply

    Wow I don’t really want to talk about my dad cause I have a variety things to say about him. He’s accepted my geekiness now but growing he was a prick about it. He had his own interests mainly airplanes(having a private pilot’s license and all) and deer hunting. Plus he’s done lot in the last 10 years to break my family apart.

  6. Bernhard
    Bernhard
    April 18, 2014 at 8:50 am | # | Reply

    Wow, Trae, looking at this comic and Sarah’s model sheet, I’m very impressed at your ability to get so much expression out of a stick figure.

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      April 18, 2014 at 10:05 am | # | Reply

      It’s the way I’ve designed her eyes. The smaller eyes and the eyebrows give her a lot more flexibility in expressions. Sarah is an expressive, extroverted character — so I needed her to have a range. Contrast that with Ruth — Ruth is always in a state of calm, even when stressed out. She’s much more introverted, so she emotes quietly. Because of that, her eyes never really change. In fact, she almost never smiles.

      I do think about these things when I design the characters. 🙂

      • Bernhard
        Bernhard
        April 18, 2014 at 11:08 am | # | Reply

        I’m probably going to be unconsciously examining the other characters’ eyebrows from now on… 😀

        • Trae Dorn
          Trae Dorn
          April 18, 2014 at 3:05 pm | # | Reply

          Early characters who I wanted to do more with their eyes are like Lynn, Veronica and Megan — where the brow is integrated. Awesome Roy was the first to get separate eyebrows (to go with his dot eyes).

          Scrappy and Barnes both have eyebrows, but you can’t always see Barnes’s because of his hair. Random other characters, like Marcus, do too — I just can’t remember off the top of my head.

  7. bugleboy624
    bugleboy624
    May 27, 2014 at 11:13 pm | # | Reply

    Between my wife and I, we have 5 kids. We’ve been taking 4 of them to conventions for the past 5 years. We’re also on staff for our local con and have roped a couple of them onto staff, as well.

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