Author: David M Willis

Sweet, my first Dumbing of Age fanfic!  And it’s SLASHfic!  (Of the PG-13 variety.)  That’s the best kind of fic!  It’s by Reblaw and you should totally read it here on the forums. I also still have a huge backlog […]
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Sal was the third character I redesigned for Dumbing of Age.   Joyce and Sarah were pretty easy.  They were both college students 13 years ago, so reworking them was just a menial wardrobe update.  But Sal, in her other life, […]
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So sometimes I spend a whole lotta time drawing backgrounds, only for them to get covered up almost entirely by characters.  I mean, I know what parts are gonna get covered up, since I blue-pencil everything down before starting to […]
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Like clockwork, here’s Mike’s fashion closet.  Some readers have commented that it’s kind of weird to think of Mike wearing things that aren’t either his original black t-shirt or the Shortpacked! uniform.  I agree!  Well, I agreed more about a […]
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Indiana University denizens should recognize today’s strip’s setting as the northern sidewalk of Third Street.  Here’s an image of the first panel as I’m starting to put characters onto the background. Man, Google Maps Street View is a lifesaver.
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Here’s Amazi-Girl’s “model sheet.”  This is all she wears, so there aren’t any alternate outfits to show you.  Well, okay, maybe eventually she’ll get some arctic gear or Tiger Force deco, but we’ll save that for later.
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Originally Thursday and Friday’s strips were combined into a single four-panel strip.  But after finishing it, and realizing this was how I was ending my Thursday, leaving me with no idea how to cap the week off with a Friday, […]
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Okay, you guys don’t get any more guesses as to what the arts and crafts junk is for. This is a hand-sewn prototype of the Dina Dino Hat.  Our roommate Jessica’s sewing machine cord went missing, and since she felt […]
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Hmmmm, what can this pile of fleece and felt be for?
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