Comic #12: The Pitch

Drawing a comic about pitching yourself turns out to be its own kind of pitch. The whole thing is me trying to sell you on me, and being visibly awkward about it. That awkwardness ended up being the point: the panels where the sales voice cracks are the honest ones. Everything else is just posture.

A comic about pitching yourself is a trap. The moment you draw the confident version, you've lied. So I drew the cracks instead: the panels where the sales voice fails are the only true frames in the whole strip.

The hardest panel to draw was the confident one. Every time I gave the character a clean, sure line, it read as a lie. So the comic became a strip about the sales voice failing, and the awkward frames turned out to be the honest ones.

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.

A comic about pitching yourself is a trap: draw the confident version and you've already lied. So I drew the cracks instead. The panels where the sales voice fails are the only honest frames in the strip.

The hardest panel to draw was the confident one. Every clean, sure line read as a lie. So the comic became a strip about the sales voice cracking, and those awkward frames are the honest ones.