Random Spotlight: Simple Comics

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He's and awesum dude. He makes awesum comics hes just awesum. For those who didn't see the ad in the page here is this awesum guy that makes, again, awesum comics.

I had a bit of time to do a short interview with him, here it is:



So, for the people who don't know you, Introduce yourself.

My name is Jason, but most people here on DA simply know me as simpleCOMICS.I make comics about talking circles

What is your favorite style of artwork?

Vector, by far (as far as doing it myself anyway). I do a lot of vector-based pictures and designs that I never post because I'm always trying to learn new techniques and trying to get better, as far as seeing art, I love seeing good colored-pencil work

Your comics interesting, were do you get the inspiration?

I get inspiration from a number of sources, but the big 3 are "Smallville", "Futurama", and "Red vs Blue". Smallville for complicated relationships,futurama for they're episodic-saga-type storytelling and red vs blue for humor.Naturally I want to tell huge epics and adventures, but have to remind myself "These are just circles, man"

For all the upcoming "Comic Writters" what tip would you say to them?

Upcoming? heck, I consider myself 'upcoming,but if i were to give a tip...it would be to keep a notebook with you at all times because you never know when you'll get an idea and if you don't write it down YOU WILL forget it when you really need it

Going back to the basic questions, What program do you use?

I started out using only Microsoft Publisher with "Simple Complications" (my original series)
then when coming back to college, I switched to Adobe Illustratorand I use photoshop for a few things occasionally.

What got you into writing comics?

Well, in 2001 I attempted writing comics about myself and my friends in middle and high school
those are actually on an older account ~lucasharlem,i tried those a few times and failed every time and they never caught on,i was told i had a "dry" sense of humor
so i gave up after a while,then my friend =tomcat52897 had a series going and I tried starting up again, but it still didn't work
then i found a comic by ~crazyghosts who had a "sprite-process" of making comicshe used a lot of the similar or the same images for his comics and was able to update daily, so i decided to try thatas an experiment i made a new account and naturally named it 'simple comics'i had no idea people were actually going to like it

Do you ever plan of changing you art style?

Absolutely.I'm currently working on a new 75part story that takes place between 'Simple Complications" and "Circle City" and it's an entirely different approach.I made a teaser poster for it, but have since changed the style entirely.It's by far the trickiest art style i've ever done for a comic,they're not 'perfect circles' all the time in this story,they move and stretch... and i decided to give them mouths

Before we finish, tell our readers about the 13 watchers that you need?

Actually I only need 2 now :)but basically, i will be making a picture similar to this [link] but with the new 25 watchers
however, i will be making another one this summer for ALL of my watchers as a thank you, i like to do that from time to time


Ok 'Jason' that's all the time I'm gonna take from you. Thank you for participating in YOUR Random Spotlight

Not a problem

His account-simplecomics.deviantart.com/

Here is some of his comic series.
Circle City-simplecomics.deviantart.com/ga…

Simple Complications-simplecomics.deviantart.com/ga…

His  but-kiking-comic-club-winningisforlosers.deviantart.…


You guys should really check him out he deserves it ;) Hurry you might be in those 2 he needs ;)If you keep up the good work, you might be in the next
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-George
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Haha, I'm a big fan of his. :XD: Learned some stuff here, too. :D Awesome, man!