FAQ

WTF is the deal with Mitsune; boy or girl?

Aymee says:

You know, we get asked this a lot. Like, really. It’s driving me batty because ARGRHGHRGHRHG it doesn’t MATTER really, cmon you guys! I mean, whatever’s inside Mits’ pants doesn’t really affect ANYONE except Mits.

I’m also mildly offended that you’ve been into the comic enough to post a question, but didn’t read our archive. We’re not an old comic, it’s not that big! Don’t you LIKE our old strips? Do I have to go and cry in a corner? If Mits looks like a girl, then she probably is a girl. If Mits uses “he” when it comes to pronounes, then he’s probably a boy. Or perhaps he’s something else entirely, but his writing is still funny and isn’t that why we’re here in the first place?

But fine. FINE. Here’s a link to the strip where we actually explained this. Mitsune-in-the-comic? Female. Mitsune-the-real-writer? Male.

Mitsune says:

Well, since Aymee handily covered the ranting and raving in addition to the actual explanation, here’s a funny fact for you; A group of kangaroos is called a mob.


How’d you make this comic anyway?

Mitsune says:

I sit around eating candy for a while until I get an idea.  I write it down in notepad, taking care to pad the texts with funny words to make Aymee smile and distract her from the fact that I typed this up in less than ten minutes.

After this, I eat some more candy and possibly scratch my bum before I send it over to Aymee.  I think she does some wierd-ass magic to my .txt that makes it a .jpg.  In any case, when it leaves her computer, the words have pictures attached to them, highlighting how hilarious and witty I am, making the jokes infinitely more palatable.

Aymee says:

It’s fairly easy. To answer, that is.

I have a tablet – an Intous 3, which I love dearly – and I swear by the program Painter for sketching and lineart, as well as adding the text. I also have Photoshop, of course, which I occationally use to colour the comic, questionable-content-style. Meaning I’m using the same fancy addons that save me a bit of time. But yeah, I stick to Painter for most things simply because I’m more familiar with the program.

Occationally, I’ll forget that we decided that we’d never use much more than 4 hours each on a comic, and I’ll start adding details and shading and going overboard and Mits has to step in to hit me over the head and tell me to stop being a dunce. This happened in the Final Fantasy-strip, for example.

How did you guys meet?  Are you married?  What do your children look like?

Mitsune says:

Way back when I was tiny and less sexy, Aymee and I met through a mutual friend during pre-uni school.  She informed me that she’d been watching me take the same bus as her for years.  I’d never seen her.  So I guess the simple answer is that Aymee was stalking me.

And no, we’re not married, we’re not super-special friends, we’ve never touched inappropriately – hell, most of the time, I don’t even like Aymee.  But we’ve kind of stuck around each other for a decade or so, and she doesn’t seem to take a hint, so here we are.  “Here” is an awesome cellar apartment with a diplomatically huge kitchen and living room separating our rooms.

Aymee says:

There was this guy on my bus, two stops after mine. He looked fairly tired and grumpy a lot of time, and wore a pretty stylish coat. Our bus, it should be mentioned, was very tiny. I mean, literally. It’s half the size of a normal bus, and there weren’t a lot of stops for it – I guess it’s main function is to shuttle little old ladies to the mall and young’uns to their high-school.  We were like five people below 50 there.

And then I realized that the grumpy, tired guy was in the class my BFF was in, and we got to talking. I thought this was a good opportunity to befriend someone who lived 100 m from my own house, meaning I never had to spend ages getting everywhere again. Our city is fairly small, but it’s spread out over 2-3 islands and the commute anywhere is a bitch. He retaliated by getting me hooked on WoW a few years later, so I guess we’re even.