![]() ![]() Hell, I won’t even draw my husband’s stories. But I have a great day job already and prefer to save all my comicking energy for my own stuff. Mind you, I’ve liked the ideas people have pitched at me in the past and hope to see some of them actually make print. I have a this really great idea for a comic, do you want to draw it? How do you create a page of Dicebox?ĭigitally, in Affinity Photo. I’ve done a page in as little as 6 hours and have taken as long as 30 hours. ![]() On average it takes me about 10 to 14 hours to do a page, from thumbnails to finishes. How long does it take for you to do a page of Dicebox? When it does update, I make note of it on the Home Page, my Instagram and Twitter accounts and, of course, on my Patreon page. My characters are fairly mainstream in that respect for their time and place. Most likely! But I doubt it’ll come up in a big way in the story. Aren’t there any other gendered pronouns being used in the Dicebox universe? But it did inspire peh, which is, in essence, short for person. A friend had come up with “penn” as a gender neutral pronoun which didn’t quite work for me for that reason. I also wanted the pronoun to have the same effect as he or her, a near aspirant sound that flows instead of stops. Using “they” is pretty good in writing or in the abstract, but can be needlessly confusing in conversation when talking about specific individuals. I wanted something that couldn’t be confused with he, she or it either in speech or text. And I wasn’t satisfied with any existing ones. Well, I clearly think it necessary to have such a pronoun. Has Molly always been missing the ring finger of her right hand? Her gender is a little more elusive (as is anyone’s). That said, the occasional appearance of dice in this story signifies nothing. I’m fascinated by the way one recognizes the fifth side of a die in less than an instant without counting the dots-it’s an alternate symbol “5.” And how they are called “bones” in reference to the material they used to be made from. (Not so much that they are used for gambling as well as fortune telling-though I got the humor of that before leaving grade school.) This in turn resonates with a long fascination of mine for dice and playing cards and their everyday commonness combined with rich symbolic meaning. The title Dicebox was inspired by the Nordic rune Peorth, which is the “dice cup” or the “womb.” Its significance in a casting is of something revealed that had been hidden, though it can also stand for a gamepiece or a pawn. ![]()
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