DMFA gets Interviewed!

[Faux_Pas]

http://www.crushyiffdestroy.com/show/missmab

I ran across this a couple of days ago, and didn't see a topic started for it yet, so I decided to post it here. Our wonderful Mab carries herself very well in this interview, and in so gives us an insightful view of herself and some opinions. Go take a look. (That, and I have to go and build my post count up... I wanna be an active member Dammit!! <3)

[xHaZxMaTx]

Really the most difficult thing is when you are doing a strip, and it has a direction, and then you get that one fan who is all "oooh! I know what's going to happen!" and while their prediction is accurate, a part of you wants to change the entire comic to not go that direction just to SPITE THEM because you know the second it happens in the comic, they are going to post and be all "HA HA! I WAS RIGHT! IN YOUR FACES! The artist must have been influenced by MEEE!" and then you just want to gnaw their kneecaps off and use their patellas for hockey pucks.

[bill]

Really the most difficult thing is when you are doing a strip, and it has a direction, and then you get that one fan who is all "oooh! I know what's going to happen!" and while their prediction is accurate, a part of you wants to change the entire comic to not go that direction just to SPITE THEM because you know the second it happens in the comic, they are going to post and be all "HA HA! I WAS RIGHT! IN YOUR FACES! The artist must have been influenced by MEEE!" and then you just want to gnaw their kneecaps off and use their patellas for hockey pucks.

Wins.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Nice interview. Thanks for linking us, Faux.

[Supercheese]

Nice interview. Thanks for linking us, Faux.

Indeed. I still find that URL title off-putting, though... *shrugs*

[Alan Garou]

Firstly, that interview is full of win. Congrats Mrs. Amber! Secondly, what in the world is a patella?

[Faerie Alex]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patella

The patella or kneecap is a thick, triangular bone which articulates with the femur and covers and protects the front of the knee joint.

[Alan Garou]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patella

The patella or kneecap is a thick, triangular bone which articulates with the femur and covers and protects the front of the knee joint.

Thank you. I forgot about Wikipedia for a second there. And now that I know what a patella is, Mrs. Amber's response is even funnier.

[e_voyager]

lol well spoken amber. that reminds me i've been neglecting the Mynarski forest forum lately. i'll go catch up.

[Zedd]

At least no camras...You know how the common long lived artist is to a camra

[Caswin]

Because it bears repeating: THAT BOKO PICTURE OWNS.

Oh, and the interview's neat, too.  Good publicity on CrushYiffDestroy?  Who knew?

...should I be glad I still have my kneecaps?

[icarus]

i was impressed that CYD didn't try to spindoctor it into something negative, but i guess they realize that amber isn't someone they need to hate on. CYD can be biased sometimes and other times eeriely spot on.

it's a furry tabloid, though, so that's about what should be expected.

[Tiger_T]

Thank you for the link, Faux_Pas!

And thank you Amber for taking the interview.

It was a very interesting read.

[Tapewolf]

Interesting.  I thought Abel was a relatively recent creation.  What are the chances of seeing some of the early sketches of him (NOT the porn)?  I'd be interested to see how he developed.

[bill]

The "How to be a Furry" article on that site is priceless.

[superluser]

Interesting.  I thought Abel was a relatively recent creation.  What are the chances of seeing some of the early sketches of him (NOT the porn)?  I'd be interested to see how he developed.

Well, Abel's first appearance was in 424.  We're now up to 712.  At 52 weeks times three times a week, that's 156 strips a year, which is almost two years.

So that's 2004 when Abel first appeared, right?  And she only started designing him in 2002-2003.  So relatively recent addition it isn't.  Years of preparation?  Maybe a year or two.  Not bad, but not too long, considering that the incubus story started around strip 200.

(Gosh, people are right, Mab really is MIA!)

[Tapewolf]

So that's 2004 when Abel first appeared, right?  And she only started designing him in 2002-2003.  So relatively recent addition it isn't. 

Have you sat down and compared 2002 Dan to present-day Dan?

[superluser]

So that's 2004 when Abel first appeared, right?  And she only started designing him in 2002-2003.  So relatively recent addition it isn't.

Have you sat down and compared 2002 Dan to present-day Dan?

I'm just saying it's about halfway through the series.

It feels relatively recent to me, too.

[Eibborn]

Really the most difficult thing is when you are doing a strip, and it has a direction, and then you get that one fan who is all "oooh! I know what's going to happen!" and while their prediction is accurate, a part of you wants to change the entire comic to not go that direction just to SPITE THEM because you know the second it happens in the comic, they are going to post and be all "HA HA! I WAS RIGHT! IN YOUR FACES! The artist must have been influenced by MEEE!" and then you just want to gnaw their kneecaps off and use their patellas for hockey pucks.

See, what you guys missed in this was the hockey reference! ALREADY SHE IS ONE OF US! 

[Tapewolf]

I'm just saying it's about halfway through the series.

Fair enough, but I'd still be interested to see what Abel looked like four years ago.

[King Of Hearts]

Oh how I wished ive read this before I went down that other path...

[ShiningShadow]

That was a cool interview from CYD. I think Amber was great there telling everything about herself and her art and how it was developing through out her school years etc. I love the reference of using the patella as hockey pucks cool as I laughed my ass off. Amber is a very cool artist with some many ideas and directions that one day she will be a very great artist of this year or maybe the next. I think she is still working perfecting her craft even further who knows what holds for us when Amber draws something very incredible. I like how she described Abel and the process she went throught to create him and I think that was the coolest part of the interview.

[RJ]

Back in the days of mah youth, when the internet was still something not every home had, I would spend hours after school at the library just downloading various Sailor Moon and random anime pictures onto little floppy disks to take home.

I'm sure glad I wasn't the only one who did that... >.>

[thegayhare]

I agree with you RJ cept in my case it was lodoss war, slayers and tank police

Actualy I blame Anime for my exposure to the furry fandom.

When I was realy young my family was stationed in japan and I saw lots of anime.  when I got to the states I was quite shocked at how hard it was to find.  so I went onto the school libriary looking for the one I remembered most Galaxy express 999, except since I was all of 7 or 8 when I saw it I couldn't remember the name.  During my search I stumbled across a particularly cool picture of the Puma sisters from tank police.  that gopt me looking for more animal people.

[Alondro]

Out in the vast wasteland of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, we didn't have that there newfangled Internode thingummajig until I gots meself inta high school.  And even then, there was ony one computer room in the school.   

In college, the nework was agonizingly slow, and I only had enough time to look up what I needed for my classes.  When we finally did get a faster connection, I had to get part-time work to pay for bills, so it didn't matter.  I didn't discover web comics or furry until I got my first full-time job back in 1999.  It was quite acidental.  While searching for data on big cats, I stumbled across a furry site with a link that led directly to... chakats.  I've been a hopeless furvert ever since. 

And I agree with Mab about the fan reactions when they get something right about speculation.  Pete Abrams, creator of "Sluggy Freelance", doesn't even allow speculations in the forum because of an instance in which someone tried to claim he'd given Pete the idea for something that happened in the strip.  The way to stop that sort of thing is to promise instant death.   

[Paladin Sheppard]

Very well writen and very informative! A big thanks to Paul of CYD for interviewing Mrs Williams and Amber for creating DMFA, which was really the first webcomic I really started to follow and the first comic with a forum I've had great pleasure to join.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Out in the vast wasteland of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, we didn't have that there newfangled Internode thingummajig until I gots meself inta high school.  And even then, there was ony one computer room in the school.   

http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040224.html *smirk*

And I agree with Mab about the fan reactions when they get something right about speculation.  Pete Abrams, creator of "Sluggy Freelance", doesn't even allow speculations in the forum because of an instance in which someone tried to claim he'd given Pete the idea for something that happened in the strip.  The way to stop that sort of thing is to promise instant death.   

The other option is to have in the forum rules "anything posted here is fair game for use in the comic with no attribution required, and no copyright objections. If you disagree, do not post." - brutal, but bascially covers the copyright limits, and anyone can post anything they like. They just can't claim it as their idea afterwards.

Note: Wording may require adjusting to stomp on the wriggly little worms.

[Silverfoxr]

congras to mab for a cool interview

[Alondro]

*blinks at Ilearch's link to Schlock Merc.*  Who on earth would care if Jersey City got blown up?  Were the European seperatists trying to help us?  We here's down in South Jersey dun hates dem uppity Northern folk!  Always a' wantin ta steal our water!  We all's gonna ceseed... cessed... centipede... some dang fancy Northerner word fer gittin away from them... from North Jersey an have our own lil country!  Yeee-haw!     (Notes that the bucktooth face is wrong for this... too many teeth to be from South Jersey!)   

[EvilIguana966]

For a person claiming to be insane she sure does come across as thoughtful, even-tempered, and rational.