About: The Comic Itself

What IS this comic?

Why call it the Dementia of Magic?

I honestly can't remember. I think it was supposed to be a pun. I really should've written that down.

All right, once and for all, what's the update schedule?

It's MWF. Eventually.

Yes, I know I very frequently miss updates. Sorry about that. I do other things in my life, too (some of which are necessary for monetary gain), and sometimes the DoM has to take a back seat. Not counting times when I'm stuck trying to figure out how to draw a scene properly.

Why do you draw like crap?

Because I'm a computer geek masquerading as a webcomic artist?

This is my first attempt at drawing much of anything on a regular basis. You've gotta start somewhere, and that somewhere won't be perfection. I'll improve, trust me. I mean, just compare the first chapter with the latest one.

No, he's usually worse.

...all right, really, Phil has really zero input to the comic whatsoever (except for the Cute and Single joke, that was a quote of his in the old forums). He doesn't even read the thing.

Wait, the artist's breaking the fourth wall! What gives?

Well, I'm the artist. I live outside the fourth wall.

Actually, I'll never BREAK the fourth wall, per se. The characters in the comic (Matt, Alex, etc) cannot interact with the characters behind wall #4 (Myself, my brother, etc), and vice versa, besides me directly drawing the comic. So, technically, the fourth wall isn't BROKEN, the camera's simply changing perspective. So there.

What's with Break Time?

C'mon, I sometimes get sick of drawing the same plot chain all the time. So, between major chapters, I'll take a break for some amount of time (however long I can get new ideas) and throw out single-shot comics, usually centering around Phil and myself. Or various DoM-related subjects that don't fit into the plot well. It helps to get my mind on something else for a while so I can come back to the plot with a fresh head.

Could you make a "first time reader" page? Like, a section to get people up to speed quickly?

I'd like to. I really would. But I don't want to make it a simple text page. I'd want to draw up complete comic pages (similar to the intro pages to Chapter Two) and do it that way. It'd just feel more natural. But that'd take time.

Worse, I'm not sure what I'd need to cover to make people not feel completely lost when they pick the strip up. The comic is EXTREMELY plot-dependent and I'll be making numerous references to the past as I go along. When I do, I'll probably stick in pointers to lead back to referenced plots, but I want to make people as comfortable as possible without having to reiterate the entire plot. I'm not sure how exactly to go about that.

But, I'll work on it. I understand it can be confusing if you haven't read the entire archives yet. And I understand that the art and font in the original strips are painful to look at.