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One of the first ones we did with these characters.

Taken from Move Pen Move by Shane Koyczan

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Chapter one preview

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Would you describe your comic as more of an old noir crime story, or like a modern csi/ criminal minds type?

The inspiration is definitely from Criminal Minds, because I started watching it when it first came out or whenever, at least as far back as 2008. However, the idea of them being FBI agents has shifted to detectives to just Private Investigators. The comic itself will not be mostly in black and white, I just did those to poke fun at the genre. It will mostly utilize a very muted, very grey color scheme that has much more pigment than a film noir. I’m playing with the idea of bright lights and dark darks, and that is used in the prologue exclusively, for now, but I’m not sure about doing it in the rest of the comic unless it’s environmental and situational, as it is in the prologue.

Where do you predominantly draw inspiration from when drawing?

For a long time, a lot of my drawings came from in my head, and that’s the early phase when I just drew anime characters and my old OC’s (Silver and Zaria, god bless them) and so they were both white chicks, which was what I identified with at the time (because all I watched was shoujo anime like Tokyo Mew Mew and Shugo Chara.) Also I was under the impression that blue-eyed white women were the pinnacle of beauty.I think as I got older and started opening up my world to more people and more influences, I not only started taking drawing people more seriously, but also drawing people other than white chicks. I also started Identifying with the parts in me that are neither white, nor chick, and understanding more about my own identity helped me to widen my references. Now, I draw predominantly either directly from reference, or from people that I have actually witnessed living and then have decided to draw or base characters off of later. (I created Randy during my trip to DC where I saw another kid on another tour with a shade of red hair I thought was particularly cool.) I very much create characters off of people I think are cool or interesting. On top of that, I try very hard to draw things other than people, so I’m still awaiting my piece on giraffes fighting.