Battlepug felt like improv, which I think is true of a lot of webcomics. I would often knock out a page in about three hours. Mike: Making the webcomic was actually pretty quick. Matt: Did drawing the weekly the webcomic take longer than drawing a traditional page because of how much you had to fit in? In monthly comics, though, they live and breathe a little differently. Those weekly snapshots were published over five years, of course, so you were still in the trenches with the characters. In issue form, readers spend more time with the characters, whereas the webcomic only offered weekly snapshots. The pacing needed to slow down, which felt kind of weird because for a long time Battlepug felt defined by that packed, hectic pace.
When I started writing the issues I realized that I can let things breathe a little more. The webcomic only came out once a week, so I had to pack everything into that one page. Matt: The print format seems better suited towards pathos and character development. The new series is a different animal, and that’s both exciting and terrifying. Now I’m formatting Battlepug to the standard 20-page issue. With the webcomic I could experiment and make up the rules. But I wanted to see how it would work as a comic book, because that’s where background is and I’ve never written for that format before. I published Battlepug as a webcomic because it was easier to put it online than print it, I could put it up the day I finished drawing it.
Mike Norton: I just wanted to see how it would work.
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