So, still working on the comic. As you might imagine, it is very close to completion. Today something very odd happened while I was working on it.
The comic has a lot of weird collage elements to it. At this moment I am working on a page with a playing card as one of its panels. For no real reason, I guess. You can pretend its symbolic of something though.
Anyway, at one point in the story one character gives another character a twenty dollar bill. I thought it would be cool to photocopy in an actual 20 dollar bill as part of the art.
Now, some people would call this counterfeiting, but you should know that the bill was going to be printed in black and white, on typing paper. One-sided, too. Really, nobody would ever fall for this even if I did try to use it for nefarious purposes. I scanned it in without a second thought.
Then the weird thing happened.
The printer started to print out the page with the bill on it. The scanned page also had the aforementioned playing card on it to save time and paper. It printed out the card part, but when it got to the twenty it suddenly canceled the job.
I tried again. It canceled the job immediately. My ink levels were fine. I took the twenty off and it started working again. I put the twenty on and it stopped.
I assume this is an anti counterfeit measure?? It’s creepy that they can detect that stuff… Anyway, if any currency actually appears in the comic now, it will probably have to be my actual money. Expect a high mark up.
