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(1988) 8.5" x 11" ink on paper, tone screens, photostat (photocopy.) Inked and toned cutouts of the characters pasted on a photostat of a halftoned photograph (whew!) The coarseness of the halftone screens on the seperate elements matches pretty closely, helping to integrate the composite into a single image. The original must have been sold long ago, probably at ConFurence Zero.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Mammal (Other)
Size 977 x 1280px
File Size 555.8 kB
You live in a city that can be your setting and still be recognized by many people. You're living in the set, and the set has more history than someone can go though. The city you are in, it's taken for granted that it be a setting -- so much it's almost /supposed/ to be one. One of the more interesting insights I've picked up by being in NYC, that it must be like that for a lot of people drawing/writing their cities that they know from personal experience. Must add an extra element of reality to any fiction that has that personal city as a setting. Very very very few people know about where I'm from, so I don't have that. And NYC is so big, some other shop or bar or some odd people you put in it, it's believable. Put some odd venue in a small (or too much smaller) town, not so believable. Maybe it's also that a lot of fiction I've already seen takes place in NYC, buy NYC feels like a real location that sets on the line between realty and fiction.
The city has been used as a real-life setting for so much fiction, and I was aiming for a realistic feeling in the comic strip; these characters are living lives just as people would in the real world. Sometimes it's amazing to see a movie that's been shot on location, then exit the theatre and find yourself in the actual setting.
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