Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

@webcomictalk - Q4: "How much of your comic creation is about self expression versus fan cultivation?"

My comics are there to tell a story. My "A Wish for Wings" comic has almost no readership after 20 years, and I'm fine with that. It' a story I want to tell, and I'm telling it even if there's no audience.

Telling the story is the most important thing to me. The audience that wants to read it, and enjoys it, will find you.

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Anyone remember Froze Toes "ice cream" from ther 1980s? Anyone remember it not really being ice cream, but somce kind of ice sorbet? I used to get it because it never tasted like ice cream, but like...almost iced-juice.

Did I imagine that, or was it actually not ice-cream in the milky sense of the word?

MOOPSY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2oMlTFUJgo

8AM wake up tomorrow. Gonna try to drug myself to sleep, got three alarms set up, and hope I'm caffinated enough to give two specehes in the morning....

I'm not 100% sure, but I've written more words in speeches than I have in fiction this year.

Just wrote another one for tomorrow....

@webcomictalk - Q3: "How do you feel about fan fiction and shipping based on your webcomic?"

While I'm big on allowing people their headcanons or theories, right or wrong, I'm not a fan of fan fiction, and never have been. If you're going to write fan fiction, great: you obviously have something you want to say and should go out and say it.

But why not sand the serial numbers off and truly make it your own? You don't need my characters speaking your lines. Your characters, even if derivative, are much better suited to speak your lines.

Now I have done some "fan-fic" myself, but there was a reason. There was a Closetspace/Venus Envy crossover comic. However, the comic was supposed to be done alongside with the other artist and cross into her comic, but as we began planning for the story, she became too busy to continue on her end, giving me permission to finish it. I worked with her on each comic to make sure I wasn't writing her stuff out of character. It was less fan-fic as it was telling my characters story in someone else's world, with their permission and guidance.

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