Hanging Thread – Low Hanging Fruit
by kurtiswiebe
In the summer of 2010 I came up with this concept for a slice of life comic about a plucky nice guy who makes awful life decisions, in particular with the women he chose to date. The idea was that his niceness would eventually be the death of him, that is, until he realized that you can’t save everyone and you certainly aren’t inclined to be their boyfriend at the same time. I was studying how we often take what comes easiest rather than aiming for a goal or demanding a higher standard because of the difficulty involved.
Hence the title, Low Hanging Fruit.
I worked with artist Elaine Will who did some fantastic work on it, but she was unable to continue due to her focus on a very personal series she is working on, Look Straight Ahead. You can find a whopping 144 pages on her blog and read it from the beginning. It’s beautiful, trust me. http://lookstraightahead.blogspot.com/
If any artists out there would be interested in tackling this project with me, check my contact info and send me an email. In the meantime, enjoy the pages!
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I love that! I really like the similarities to when he accepts to go out for a drink and the first panel when he says he makes poor life choices. You can really tell that the poor life choice was going out for a drink. Fantastic comic!
This is a really strong piece of character writing, it reads to me as being really true, I am this dude, and I know other guys like him so it really speaks to me.
Also the art work is fantastic, it feels right having it black and white and kind of understated. Those two splash pages play so well off of each other a clear mirror between Quinn agreeing to go for a drink and his slightly bashed up face we are greeted with at the start.
Do you have anymore of this story scripted out? I would love to read some more if you do, and if you ever wanted to carry it on an artist I work with has a similar style and may be interested.
That would be awesome to get this rolling. I read all the panels and I feel like I need more comics down to earth like this just to mix it up.
I’ve got a good thing going with relationships now but I can totally relate to this guy. It brings back a lot of memories being the nice guy and going so far out of the way for someone who probably is going to let you down.
Anyways I want this on shelves one day soon. Good luck on getting an artist this deserves to be available !
-Danny