Jake Lawrence on Nostr: Making a comic about pitching myself surfaced something I didn't plan for. Every ...
Making a comic about pitching myself surfaced something I didn't plan for. Every panel where the character sounds polished and sure reads as false. The frames that land are the ones where the sales voice cracks and the awkwardness leaks through. Turns out you can't draw a confident pitch without exposing how staged it is, so the whole strip became an argument for showing the seams instead.
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