We had absolutely no animation experience. I was spending entire days drawing and doing 20 frames, and with ten frames a second, it’s only two seconds. Neil: You saw when we were living together the amount of time that goes into that shit. There are a bunch of different animation styles for the film, but it’s mostly hand-drawn and hand-colored drawings. It’s something that we can both do and be consistent, and you wouldn’t necessarily be able to look at it and say, “This person drew this, this person drew that.” In video class we’d pass drawings back and forth and make each other laugh. Neil: It’s a hybrid of my drawing style and Fraser’s drawing style. He was just crying with laughter and I was like, Who is this fucking kid? I guess he thought this was funny, so we started sitting together in video class.īetween your previous film, Vaseline and Pepper, and The Chaperone, you guys have managed to develop and maintain a consistent and very distinct hand-drawn style. And I just went “uggh” and Fraser started dying with laughter. There were slow moving shots that came close to these wrinkled bodies moving in the water. We were watching a slow artistic video about old people doing water aerobics in a pool. Neil Rathbone: Fraser and I met in video class. Unfortunately for Megan, she takes Matt Parker’s misguided advice and sets out to “stack the deck” at the bars later that night, roping in her amiable and unsuspecting roommate, Amy Sullivan, to help pull off her scheme.I met with Neil and his partner, Fraser Munden, to talk about the film, blaxploitation, their experience at TIFF, and David Arquette’s obsession with their puppets. Meanwhile, one floor below, the stunningly beautiful, but overly materialistic and shallow, Megan Hillcrest, is fed up losing to her sorority arch-rival, the equally beautiful and cunning, Jennifer Golden. Worst of all–it’s to open tonight, while Scott moves in. When Scott Davis returns to campus excited to move into his new college apartment, he discovers one of his two roommates, Jake Larsen, “wigged out” during summer school and mysteriously dropped out of school–only to leave him stuck with a substitute roommate : the biggest slacker on campus, John Johnson.Īlready taking command of Scott’s apartment, Johnson and his sleazy friend, Nads, have convinced Scott’s other, gullible roommate, Matt Parker, to help them convert the apartment into a bar. Subscribe to The 93 Weeklyby becoming a Free Member and get the week’s worth of comics delivered to you every Sunday (and some special bonuses)!įile under: #comedy #slacker #college #comic #broke #partying #dating #iowa #woodstock94 #GenX #grunge #1990sĮpisode 1 : Johnson’s/Girls’ Night Out - now publishing! ’93 publishes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday here at with bonus chapter strips– extended scenes and additional story–starting April 2, 2024. The comic is a throwback to a slacker era gone by - before the time of the internet, social media, and smartphones - when people had no idea where their friends were at any given minute and misunderstandings were frequent. the Midwest) in the small college town of University City, or UniCity as the locals call it. The university is located deep in the middle of nowhere (a.k.a. Set in the year 1993 ( August 14th, 1993 to be exact), the long-form comic takes place at Iowa University (also known as IoU) - home of the fightin’ Walleyes. And, there’s this mystery about a missing roommate and a… lamp? Well whatever, nevermind. ’93 is a serialized, episodic, and character-driven comic that follows a group of college students trying to get by, live with one another, and just deal.
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