How far in advance?

[Faub]

I had a really nice 2-3 week about 6 months ago. Now it's gone but I only update once a week and can keep up with that.

[BrownEyedCat]

Every once in a while I'll go on a comic binge and draw a bunch of strips in advance, but even then I usually wait 'till the night before the upate to scan and finish them.

Usually I work the day of. Which is why they tend to be so simple most of the time . . .

[Col]

I'm a "do everything at the last second, make it up as you go along" sort of chap. Planning is for losers! Ha ha!

*drives off a cliff*

[Mattgo210]

Another last minute guy right here...

[AsterAzul]

Right now I've got four strips for the current storyline written in advance, going on nine.

I'm just starting out, and the way my storyline works I have to really get a lot of strips down to establish the characters before it gets going. I really want to skip the beginning and get to the chase!! But the beginning is really important, too. I can't print gag strips without establishing...

It's pretty easy for me because I've already got the whole script in my mind, with diagrams of the storylines and whatnot. I'm awful, I skip around a lot. I have the entire 8th story drawn and scanned, and it's going to take like 70 comics to get up there!

I actually had the entire second storyline drawn out, to, but I left them at my best friend's apartment and she (read: me) lost them.
Which is pretty funny because around the 9th story she appears in the comic. ^_^
Someday I'm going to take a shot at her for that.
(Although seriously it was completely my fault. We were staying up all night writing an essay, and we slept like only two hours. I probably dropped the binder out of her car when she dropped me off.)

Which also means that the art in some of the later storylines is worse than some of the art in the earlier ones...

[Magic Kitsune]

I'm only a couple of weeks ahead. I used to have more, but then I got lazy -.-

[Birdie]

I used to be a month ahead, then it went down to two weeks, and now that I'm doing my comic the snail way, I finish about 2-3 days before it goes up... if I'm lucky.

[McDuffies]

Well, I definitely can't work in last minute.
Take that I have to write one chapter of LWK at once - that means, before I start drawing it, because I have a couple of drafts and versions before the final. Let's say it takes me a week. So I have to be a week ahead with comics that are drawn, in order to have time to write the script for the next.

[Jackhass]

Depends...sometimes I'll get struck by what I think is a great idea and draw something almost the night before.

But I also have a backlog of comics scanned on my hard-drive for if I'm not feeling inspired one day...so sometimes I comic I post may have been drawn a few weeks ago.

[DennisP]

I'm working on my buffer. So, as of now I've got roughly months. But, I draw mostly at work, in between my busy time. And my non-busy time is going to end once hurricane season starts (which is just weeks away). Plus, I'm wanting to work more on the writing, which means it is going to slow me up there as well. So I'm thinking my buffer may not carry me all the through the next season

[Pockybot]

Sometimes a 5 minute before update buffer, sometimes a week. If a hot button topic happens before a scheduled comic, I'll sometimes interupt that scheduled comic with a comic about something.

[Pillywiggin]

Ahead?
I'm usually weeks behind my updates and sometimes have to skip whole months..

[Risky]

If you are talking about uploading. Write ahead, a chapter. Draw ahead, up to 5 pages. Ink ahead, 2 pages max. Color and upload and letter the same day, sometimes the day After. And update twice a month max.

[Vorticus]

I have a week right now. I had a month when I started, but that didn't last. At one point I got down to two days.

[Joel Fagin]

Well, I was a month ahead but a minor operation blew that away. It's about where I'd like to be, anyway.

- Joel Fagin

[Leko]

You know, I think my buffer runs out tomorrow.

Hm.

Generally the number of comics in my buffer is directly proportional to how long my physics class is. On Mondays, when I don't have physics, I get nothing done. But on Tuesdays, when the class is an hour and a half long, I can get as many as three comics inked. On wednesdays, when it's only fortyfive minutes, it's only about one comic, and maybe the pencils on a second one, and on thursdays and fridays, when it's an hour long, I can get out two comics a day.

Of course, this is if I feel like drawing comics. Sometimes I just draw random people beating each other up. Physics frustrates me.

[Telecoda]

My comics are like laying railway tracks in fronts of a moving train.

I don't have a buffer officially.

I tend to have 2-3 full page strips drawn.

But the delay is normally getting round to colouring them on the comp.

[Bekka]

I always try and fail to build a buffer. Often I finish a strip at 3am on the night it's got to be uploaded. It takes me 12 hours do draw and colour an episode, though.

[Ida]

I finish my comics two 1

[Phact0rri]

lucky sods who can do a comic in one sitting. takes me two usually to do a four panel strip. course I have issues with keeping focused on task too. i'll be drawing then suddenly feel the need to play guitar or come to the forums or something....

oooh shiny! *dashes off*