Anonymous asked: who r u

I am kate.

Anonymous asked: How much does a sense of place (New York vs. Toronto vs. Cape Breton, etc.) affect your work?

I think it has a real influence!  But it’s not something I can describe now, I’d have to think about it a while.  I always tell people that New York was an amazing place to be as a young artist for a while, because it lit a fire under you in a way I haven’t seen since.  Everyone around you was making amazing work, everyone was working hard.  You never knew who you were going to see at an event.  Every day I would wake up in my New York apartment and think, I have to be better at what I do today than I was yesterday.  Or I will probably die.

Anonymous asked: Do you do a rough draft of your comics first? how does that look? How long does it take?

I do a very light underdrawing in pencil, if it is a paper comic.  If it is a digital comic, I have the luxury of getting to do more rough drawings.  These don’t take long, because I believe that a lot of the time, my first set of lines are the best ones, in that they capture the movement and expression I’m looking for.  If I labor on something too long, it looks bad.  But that is why my comics often get a “they look dashed off” description - I am always chasing the energy of those first lines.