It’s likely to be over my head, as this was, but I’d definitely be interested.

1) Most importantly, I just like (and enjoy making) vector illustration and when I started the strip, I wanted to get some practice doing it. Multiplex got fairly popular within a year, that was its established style, and so I’m “stuck” with it.

2) To my knowledge, there weren’t a lot of vector-drawn comics — or at least vector drawn comics drawn without line art, the way I’m doing it. There are a few more now (Wonderella is the best of them — I love Wonderella), but the art is still one of the things people comment on when they first see the strip. From what I’ve heard, it’s more of a positive than a negative. There are always going to be people who prefer one or the other, people who can’t wrap their heads around the idea that anybody could actually think 2D vector art is an appropriate technique to use to draw hand-drawn comics… whatever.

3) While developing the strip, I knew immediately that I wanted to use real movie posters and real film stills when they were talking about movies. If you drop those into hand-drawn art (especially hand-drawn art that’s done without a ruler, like how I like to draw), it looks terrible. With vector art, it’s seamless. It just looks right.

You can’t just redraw posters and have people know that a movie I’m talking about is a real movie, and there’s no way my likenesses are going to be so good that people will instantly know “oh, that’s Angelina Jolie.” For me, getting that hurdle out of the way by using real posters and film stills every time is very important.

4) One of the biggest advantages is the ability to sort of improvise the dialogue (and the characters’ expressions) in a strip and to basically be able to revise it until the very last minute. I was considering shuffling the dialogue around in panels 3–5 ten minutes before I posted the strip. With hand-drawn art,

More times than I can count, I would have been stuck with art I couldn’t revise, that didn’t serve the script the way I later decided about changing it. So I think vector art helps me write the strip better, as well.

5) I want to animate Multiplex someday. Being drawn in Illustrator, every panel for the comic, every background, every character is a new asset for the future Multiplex animated web series library. Or whatever.

Crow quill pens are good — I often use them for smaller details — but I prefer the way ink goes down with brushes. I prefer the variation I can get out of a line with a brush. I prefer how brushes don’t scratch up your paper like crow quills do (at least the way I do them).

I’m not a particularly good inker, though. That’s why this isn’t a “how to”; it’s just a “how I do it.” :)

I’d love to see how you do a regular strip, too. it’s amazing how people differ in their methods.