Max & Lily by kris dresen

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	The Max & Lily Archive February 1996 to present Max & Lily started out as characters in a strip I was writing called "...To Others." Then, some guy roped me into contributing to a project where 4 cartoonists would draw a one-page strip every week for a year. Each strip had to be about some event that happened during that week. The concept being that at the end of the year he would publish this big comic that gave 4 different accounts of that year. I pulled Max & Lily and made them the focus of my contribution, figuring that it would be easier to write for the same two characters all year rather than have a new character in each strip. Like all comic projects, it quickly fell apart and I was left with these strips that I really liked and enjoyed drawing and writing and decided that I'd keep doing them. I tried to maintain the current event theme, but it quickly delved into becoming a more personal work. Looking back, the news-based strips seem dated and more than a bit obscure. I don't approach Max & Lily like a traditional comic strip. I feel no need to hack it out on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. I draw each strip when a Max & Lily-worthy idea comes to me. While this may be frustrating for most of you, I must say that despite the growing pains so evident in the earlier strips, I am quite happy with the overall quality of the comic. I hope you can appreciate that as well and remain patient with me.When all is said and done, I hope to have a nice little bundle of comics to look back on and be proud of. Click the image to advance to the next comic.
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