It’s almost impossible to have a story set in the early 2000s-era United States that focuses on social climate without acknowledging 9/11 in some way. I’m not confident I could write an authentic modern teen, so I set it in the early 2000s, which is when I was in high school. But I was 31 when I started drawing Rigsby. I wanted to write an authentic story about teenagers, and I wanted to set it in a specific year, which always makes stories feel a little more real to me. I’ll admit I was jarred by the reference to 9/11 – but like a lot of the book, it gives it a flavor to set this a year later, and it only be part of the tapestry of the book. If you must have a page of talking heads, you should be able to get the vibe of the conversation without having to read the dialogue. If talking heads are necessary, make sure the characters’ expressions are engaging and easy to read. Give them something to fidget with, or put them in an interesting environment so you can include wide shots or closeups of action to avoid talking heads. You have to give your characters something to do or somewhere to move around - bonus if it contributes to the plot, helps develop the character or contrasts the conversation in an interesting or humorous way. As an artist, how do you make sure those are visually stimulating, since comics are, you know, a visual medium and all? A lot of the setting is directly based on real places, though - the wooded trails, the gated hunter access, the deer blind, the picket signs and rural roads featured in the comic are all real places, near the house I lived in when I first started working on Rigsby.Ī large majority of the book is conversations between two people. All of the main characters contain a little bit of myself, and they all have bits and pieces of people I have known over the years, but I can’t point to any one character and say “that’s (so-and-so)”. Case: Almost none of it is a 1:1 retelling of my life, but I did draw a lot from my own experiences, real-life observations, and things remembered from my teenage years. To find out more about the inspiration behind the book, Comic Book Club talked to Case over email.Ĭomic Book Club: I’m sure you must get this a lot, but the characters and situations feel so lived in… How much are you drawing from your own life, versus creating whole cloth? And as a bonus, the volume also includes shorter, funnier pieces that previously appeared on Case’s Patreon. Titled Rigsby WI: Foothold, the first volume puts its characters through their paces with family drama, friend drama, romance drama, and a whole lot more, you know, drama. But in case you missed it online - or if you’re a fan and always hoped it would find a slot on your shelf - it’s now heading to a crowdfunding campaign via Spike Trotman’s Iron Circus Comics, which is live now on Backerkit.Īs part of the campaign, fans new and old will be able to snag 120 pages of Rigsby WI in graphic novel form. Case’s webcomic Rigsby WI is a poignant, deeply realized dive into the world of a group of teens living in Northern Wisconsin in the early 2000s.
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