I met Sina Grace back in 2006, when we were introduced through a mutual friend by the name of Nicholas Brandt. Sina was about to start self-publishing his book "Books With Pictures," and was looking for a colourist to handle the covers. He liked my stuff, and I ended up colouring all but one of the five issue miniseries. I loved his stuff and working on it.
I was on the first attempt to do this strip Weekly, so I asked if Sina would reciprocate and draw me a Li'l Depressed Boy strip for the site. The idea evolved into doing it on the site and reprinting his strips as a back-cover back-up for Books With Pictures. Unfortunately, I wasn't exactly up to my weekly schedule and fell behind. So, he only did that one strip that year.
Fast forward over 2 years, and I was ready to start the strip anew. Sina became one of the stable of regular artists that I rotated, like I had intended the first time around.
Another year passed, and I wanted to reinvent the strip. I decided I wanted to spend more time on longer-form stories and switch to full colour. Sina was my first choice for the new direction, and asked him if he could commit to a long form story. The original idea was by long-form, I meant 8 page episodes.
Sina then broached the subject of him taking over the art duties in full.
I was in no position to say no.
Sina took over the strip and has been doing a great job ever since. Even despite my inability to give him a script in time for any normal human to draw it, he always turns in something amazing.
Today is his 50th strip for me. Thank you, Sina. I'm truly blessed to get to work with you every week. It's been a lot of fun so far. I'm excited to see what your next 50 look like.
-- Struble
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