My setup

I do everything digitally, and have for years. My basic software tools are Painter, Photoshop and Illustrator. I also used Freehand until Adobe suffocated it with a pillow. Somewhere back there in the era of Windows 3.0, I also used a couple of odd raster drawing programs called WinRIX and Cricket Paint.

My first digitizer tablet was a huge SummaGraphics that was a lot more than I needed. Next came the Wacom ArtZ, a tiny tablet that nonetheless suited my needs better. I've stayed with Wacom ever since; I'm using the Intuos4 now. I had a Cintiq for awhile, and discovered I didn't like it.

I worked in Windows up until about nine years ago, then switched to the Mac. Nothing would make me go back to the PC.

The Mac I'm using now is a 2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core with 32 GB of RAM. It's really nice to open three graphics programs, Twitter client and a couple of different web browsers and see that I'm not using even half my available memory.

I've got about 10 TB of hard drive space, with 6 more TB sitting in a box waiting to be installed. For years, I juggled huge graphics onto Iomega Zip Disks, then Syquest cartridges, then Jaz drives, then CD-ROMs, and then DVDs, because the files filled up my hard drive so quickly. But now, hard drive space is so cheap that I can't see how moving stuff to removable media makes any sense.

The art: an unfinished panel from May, 2000. Jungle Janna nails Sheila after being pounded to the mat by the blonde's gloved fists. The large white areas near Sheila's hands are where I floated part of the art, moved it, but never filled in the background. This was part of a digital comic that remains unfinished, although some panels are floating around the 'net.