QUILTBAG Queries: Ask T and Jason

[Doc Harleen]

There have been a few questions and theories about it, so I'm just going to ask: when did the two Daphne panels from Wednesday's strip take place in the P&A timeline? Contextually speaking, what happened right before each of those moments?

[TCampbell]

As much fun as it is to speculate they happened on the same day, they were respectively a couple of weeks after the beginning of Sara and Daphne's official relationship, and during the summer after it ended.

[Trefle]

Why was Sara reading Descartes, by the way? For her class?

[TCampbell]

Why was Sara reading Descartes, by the way? For her class?

It was an assignment for her philosophy class, "Questions of Modern Life."

[Alice Macher]

In the second strip, Sara reflects, "I like theater. I want to reach more people than theater can reach." Does she mean that in the financial sense (i.e. whether it'll be enough to make a living on), in the aesthetic/emotional sense of "reaching" people, or both?

[TCampbell]

In the second strip, Sara reflects, "I like theater. I want to reach more people than theater can reach." Does she mean that in the financial sense (i.e. whether it'll be enough to make a living on), in the aesthetic/emotional sense of "reaching" people, or both?

The second one.

[Outshined]

I might have missed this explanation somewhere, but I have heard that QUILTBAG is an acronym. What words does it stand for?

I hope these haven't been asked before: After Penny and Aggie, what made you decide to write a comic about gender/sexuality issues, out of all the topics and genres you could have written about? Furthermore, why make Sara and Lisa the protagonists instead of starting with a fresh setting?

[TCampbell]

I might have missed this explanation somewhere, but I have heard that QUILTBAG is an acronym. What words does it stand for?

I hope these haven't been asked before: After Penny and Aggie, what made you decide to write a comic about gender/sexuality issues, out of all the topics and genres you could have written about? Furthermore, why make Sara and Lisa the protagonists instead of starting with a fresh setting?

It's rare that Urban Dictionary is a trustworthy authority, but they got this one.

Sara and Lisa were the two characters in Penny and Aggie that I felt I might not be finished with yet. And I was somewhat inspired by the Penny and Aggie audience, which was not the audience I initially expected Penny and Aggie to have. Beyond that, I have enough friends and acquaintances somewhere on the QUILTBAG spectrum that such things have been on my mind already.

[Outshined]

Sara and Lisa were the two characters in Penny and Aggie that I felt I might not be finished with yet.

I don't think I'd ever get tired of Aggie, but maybe that's just me, haha =P. You are right, though - P&A became a much different comic by the end. Oddly, one of the elements that came out of left field toward the end of the series (that I really enjoyed, I'll add) was the "horror arc" where Charlotte kidnaps Cyndi.

Have you ever thought about writing a dedicated horror story somewhere down the line? I'm talking like some serious, Tomitake-claws-his-own-throat-out level freakiness. I think you would be really good at it.

Edit: Come to think of it, have you ever considered doing a visual novel?

[Alice Macher]

And on a similar note: Have you considered taking another stab at writing for print, perhaps something for the literary graphic novel audience that enjoys memoirs like Fun Home or even experimental works like Asterios Polyp?


/* dreams of seeing T's work reviewed in The New York Times ^__^

[TCampbell]

Sara and Lisa were the two characters in Penny and Aggie that I felt I might not be finished with yet.

I don't think I'd ever get tired of Aggie, but maybe that's just me, haha =P. You are right, though - P&A became a much different comic by the end. Oddly, one of the elements that came out of left field toward the end of the series (that I really enjoyed, I'll add) was the "horror arc" where Charlotte kidnaps Cyndi.

Have you ever thought about writing a dedicated horror story somewhere down the line? I'm talking like some serious, Tomitake-claws-his-own-throat-out level freakiness. I think you would be really good at it.

Edit: Come to think of it, have you ever considered doing a visual novel?

And on a similar note: Have you considered taking another stab at writing for print, perhaps something for the literary graphic novel audience that enjoys memoirs like Fun Home or even experimental works like Asterios Polyp?

I've thought about lots of things... it's just a matter of prioritizing. QUILTBAG is a shade more "literary" in my mind than Penny and Aggie was, but it's not quite my play for the Eisner. Neither will the next one be, probably. But, very possibly, the one after that will be.

[danslepoubelle]

Make a play for the Eisner! Also, though it may not be Asterios Polyp (which was great, people thinking about reading it) Penny & Aggie and especially Fans have both been darn original and even experimental at points.

[Captain LeBubbles]

Are you planning to do another Trick-or-Reader? Or were the winners from the first one the only ones you ever planned to use? (In the strip, you mentioned it was the 'first' one, but in a Q&A in the other thread you said that the next time would be more of the winners from the first one.)

[TCampbell]

Are you planning to do another Trick-or-Reader? Or were the winners from the first one the only ones you ever planned to use? (In the strip, you mentioned it was the 'first' one, but in a Q&A in the other thread you said that the next time would be more of the winners from the first one.)

Both are true. I haven't used all the extras from the first one, but I'm planning to do so in "U." The next Trick-or-Reader will be during "I."

[DudeMyDadOwnsADealership]

What were the other questions on the gag-quiz Jade was taking, that disgusted Temperance so much?

You don't have to answer this one if it's going to be covered in future strips in the chapter...