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Q: What is Epitaph?
A: Epitaph is a science-fiction webcomic created by Kris Montello and Roberto Leutwiler. It is primarily set in a futuristic, war-torn Underworld and explores themes like religion, mortality, and the afterlife. Q: Why black-and-white? A: Because we think it looks cool. Also, it's easier to work with. We have, however, toyed with the idea of doing the occasional color page; eventually it may become a weekly thing. But, as of now, it is strictly black-and-white, aside from very special pages, like the covers of each volume. Q: How far in advance do you plan the story? I have a couple of ideas I think you guys should do. A: We have pretty much the entire story planned out, so we really don't need any ideas. If you have some, though, perhaps you should try making your own webcomic and checking out Doghouse Universal. Q: When does Epitaph update? A: Officially, Monday/Wednesday/Friday. In actuality, about once a week. The reason for this discrepancy is simply that it takes a lot of time to make a page, and both of us are students with many other commitments. We hope to try to conform to the three-days-a-week schedule more in the future, as we become more adept at producing pages on time. Q: Who makes Epitaph possible? A: Epitaph is written and lettered by Kris Montello, with contributions from Roberto Leutwiler. Roberto is also the artist: he draws, inks, shades, and (at times) colors the pages. Epitaph is hosted by Doghouse Comics, a webcomic and Flash cartoon website created by Kris Montello, Ben Hennessy, and John Flanagan. It runs on the Doghouse Universal webcomic-hosting system designed and managed by Ben. Q: What kind of work goes into each page? Good question. Well, first Kris writes a whole chapter. Then we try to edit the script and organize the action and dialogue into about 25-30 comic pages. Roberto starts each comic with a simple pencil on paper. He uses Pigma Micron pens of varying widths and an EXPO dry-erase marker to ink the original pencil lines, and fill in black areas. Each page is scanned into Adobe Photoshop CS2 at 1200 dpi. In Photoshop, some black is filled in and the comic is cleaned up, and sometimes colored. The comic is then shaded in Manga Studio. Finishing touches, speech bubbles, and text, are then added by Kris using Adobe Fireworks 8. Q: What other things have you guys done? A: Roberto has done another comic for DHC: Yazuke, which has been on indefinite hiatus since July, 2006. Kris has done various work for DHC, including Flash movies like Meet The Presidents and Mother's Boards. Q: Nobody's ever actually asked any of these questions, have they? A: No... but they won't have to now, since it's all here. Right? Right? |
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