{"id":1682,"date":"2008-05-26T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2008-05-26T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T15:55:00","slug":"shawns-thoughts-on-chainmail-bikini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1682","title":{"rendered":"Shawn’s Thoughts on Chainmail Bikini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shawn has a lengthy writeup on what it was like working on Chainmail Bikini and some of the frustrations we faced in our collaboration<\/a>. Worth a read if you followed the comic. <\/p>\n

Now that Shawn has indulged in a little navel-gazing I feel like I have leave to do the same. <\/p>\n

He mentions collaborating long distance. Being a techno-hermit, I’ve done quite a bit of collaboration over the years. Since 1995 I’ve been working on projects with people hundreds of miles away. At my current job, I worked for my boss for two years before I even saw a picture of him, and it was two more years after that before we actually shook hands. Once in a while I’ll see a comment like Shawn’s that will remind me that my approach to things is not at all normal.<\/p>\n

He also mentions the art demands of the comic. The ideal load on his end would have been about three or four panels, a sensible number embraced by a great number of webcomics out there. For whatever reason, I write jokes that require eight<\/em>. (Although later today I actually have a four-panel comic, go figure.) We usually met somewhere in the middle, and neither of us was really completely satisfied with the compromise. He had to do a lot more work and I had to leave out some funny. There was never any rancor, but I recognize now that if I ever collaborate again I should find someone that can produce in bulk<\/em>. Shawn probably needs someone with at least a rough familiarity with the concept of brevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shawn has a lengthy writeup on what it was like working on Chainmail Bikini and some of the frustrations we faced in our collaboration. Worth a read if you followed the comic. Now that Shawn has indulged in a little navel-gazing I feel like I have leave to do the same. He mentions collaborating long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}