Tools I Use Look, Ma,... no paper! ARGON ZARK! is drawn directly on the computer with the following toys... er, I mean tools! Links from this page open in a new window.

Hardware

Apple Power Macintosh 7500/300.   My favorite arrangement of plastic, metal and silicon. Yes I know there are faster machines out now, but I swapped out my old 100 MHZ 601 daughtercard for a 300 MHZ G3 with a 200MHZ 1MB backside cache, and my need for speed is being met for the moment, thank you. I just got a new display which I like a lot, a 21" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 1010e. Lest you think it's necessary to have high-end equipment to do this kind of work, bear in mind that the first 30 or so pages of the first story were done on a faithful little Quadra 610 with 16 megs of RAM, 250 MB drive, a 25MHZ processor and a 15" Sony monitor. Wacom Intuos 6x8 pressure-sensitive graphics tablet. This is The Tool! Take up thy stylus and draw!  No trees were killed during the creation of Argon Zark!, The entire comic is drawn directly on the computer with my trusty Wacom. Their name comes from "Wa", Japanese for harmony, and "Com" for computer, meaning a tool that puts one in harmony with a computer. Aptly named.