Ask The Wife!
February 25th, 2010 |
The Formspring Q-n-A is turning out to be a real hit with readers. My wife is really enjoying reading the questions too, and she asked me if she could get to answer some. So here you go, anything you guys wanted to ask my wife, just leave a comment and I’ll see if I can get her to answer them :D
Are you as adorably excitable in real life as you are in the comic?
I get pretty excited sometimes, Evan does too, we just like to have fun.
How many iterations of your cmic counterpart did your husband have to draw before you were satisfied with it? Also, how close is she to your real personality (I personally think she’s awesome!)?
I didn’t really care, I thought I looked cute in the comic from the get-go (trust me I have other things to harp about)
Um well, I am like that, but of course not all the time, those are mostly just the funny moments that Evan likes to capture, I have a boring & mundane side to me too.
Would you ever consider punching a bear?
not a real one, and I’d feel bad if I punched a stuffed one… so probably not..
If the situation were to arise, how fast would you break up with Evan for Superman.
ewww superman?? really? He has nothing on Evan. First of all superman is a fictional character, and he has little personality from what I remember.
How do you feel about being put into your husband’s web comic?
I think it’s pretty cool, I really wish he would show me them before he uploads them for the whole world to see. I worry about what he’s going to record/ what I’m going to look like. But Evan has tons of discretion, so I do really trust him, but if he messes up once I’ll make him show me them first.
And it is pretty cool that I have the stupid/funny things that I’ve said recorded and in an adorable form, I would normally just forget about them.
Have you ever considered getting a squirt-bottle to “punish” your silly hubby? My family has one we use for our cats when they’re being stupid, but my mum has also found out it works quite well on dense males like my father and my brother :D I highly recommend it as a valuable purchase that will amuse (you) for hours!
…either that or a mini-marshmallow shooter!!
well I’m not sure how the water squirter will go over, I have squirted Evan with it once just to see what he would do and he wasn’t amused. (we had a wild cat in our house for a couple of days and filled up a bottle for it- the bottle is still around the house but the cat is not)
-It is an interesting suggestion though- I’ll remember it!
When Evan and I were dating we came into contact with mini-marshmallow shooters- it was WAY fun!! I like to wrangle up some more one day- we could shoot food at our dog!
Hahaha, that’d be a great way to feed your dog!
Mini-marshmallow shooters are great. My brother got ahold of one a friend made out of PBC pipes, and he dressed up in camo when we went camping and shot at all of us in the dark. It was fun :)
Cake or pie?
Cake! unless it’s a GOOD key-lime pie! yum!
do you like dancing?
With my husband in the comfort of our own home- or alone to music, most def not in public!
WHAT is your favourite colour?
(Yes I am Canadian.)
I like purple and aqua, but favorite color to decorate would be red, favorite color to wear would be aqua. Favorite gem stone color would have to be emerald or light blue.
I hope I was thorough enough! :)
Is cheesecake a pie or a cake?
hmm, it’s kind of more like a poser cake, that’s really a pie- I guess pie??
I’ve always heard that, but I still think it’s a cake. It’s firm like a cake and it has cake in the name!
What is the most irratating thing that your husband does when writing a comic?
He won’t show me!! When I come over to bother him he hides what he’s working on!
The cutest thing he does is make all sorts of faces- I guess it helps him draw the face??
Boxers or briefs?
Um I’m a girl, I don’t wear either, lol!
Ok. If Evan was a dog, and you were a fish, what is the capital of Arizona?
I’m worried that you think I”m dumb :( I think it’s Pheonix
Haha I’m sorry if it came off that way! I was just having some fun ^^ And you’re correct.
“Blub, bubble bubble”
Your character is adorable, but your husband is so mean to her sometimes. I hope he isn’t mean in real life!
No he’s not mean, Evan is a completely selfless person, we just joke around, it sometimes frustrates me- but I always know that he’s kidding and that he loves me! I’m more of the mean hormonal one on occasion.
If he ever does upset me by joking he then goes to great lengths to reassure me and make me feel better.
That’s good :)
if you had to fight off a zombie invasion, what weapon would you use?
Whatever was handiest at the time, but most preferably I’d use some automatic gun with a long barrel and lots of ammo in it!
Is Evan as funny in real life as his comics are and who do you think is funnier you or him?
I think he’s funnier in person.
I am more unintentionally funny- Evan is more witty, clever and deliberate with his jokes.
Hey! I must say that you really remind me of my gf (based on the comic and your responses). Which must mean that you are pretty awesome .. you know since she is awesome to! Yup, you probably got that. Aaaaanyway, please tell your husband that he has made the best webcomic I have ever read (I’ve read alot :P).
Now I realized that I have not asked you anything… soooooo, how are you?
Thanks for all the Compliments!!! I hope you and your girlfriend stay very happy!
I told Evan what you said just now and he seems pleased!
Um, well I’m good, stressed, very stressed, 4 members of Evan’s family and a friend will be staying at our house for nearly a week, so we will have 7 people and a dog at our house. Mayhem, absolute mayhem is all I predict!
Do you prefer small or large dogs?
Smaller, large dogs can knock me over and they won’t fit in my lap.
But I find really little dogs annoying, I don’t like their high pitch bark, and you can’t play fight with them, they are too delicate.
is your dog really as awesome as it is in the comic?
She is WAY amazing and awesome– YES!
She now knows how to play dead and do other cute tricks, and she just loves to be near me all the time, I just love her!
do you miss wow
Yeah, especially today since I’m getting sick and it’s rainy outside- perfect conditions for killing things!
When opening yourself up for questions directly from web comic readers, did you realize just how many flirtatious hitting on you questions you’d get?
Well they don’t know me, so hopefully they won’t do that too often- we sure will see. I hadn’t really thought about it though Zug, thanks for the reminder, Evan also can delete anything inappropriate right away.
if you were trapped in a room with a velociraptor how long do you think you would last?
Depends if we are in Dinotopia or not, and if he’s hungry.
I don’t think very long though, :/
Quick~! Zombies are attacking, would you use Evan as a human meat-shield?
naa, but he’d protect me
What was your favorite thing about WoW… could you ask Even too?
Evan srry
Um my favorite thing, hard to think of one thing specifically, I guess in real life I could never be that brave and kill that many scarey things, so having this character that I made look like me that could run around and kill big scarey things made me feel good!
Sorry for my crazy run-on sentences- it’s just how I talk!
Evan said “I dunno” -sorry :/
If you could have one wish and you could not wish for more wishes, what would you wish for?
Um I guess I would wish for all the people in the world to start reading the Bible, that would be a good start!
hm very interesting lol what religion are you?
http://churchesofchrist.com/
lol thats so great i go to church of christ to.
is there any chance of you looking at my rsmv (runescape music video)? im pretty sure you would know what runescape is, imagine wow, but free, and worse. anyway can you watch it here? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gps_6UcZXwE
(horay for shameless self promotion :D)
I do know what runescape is actually, I played once long, long ago for a few days and then gave up, interesting video. Did you do the singing?
nah i found the band on myspace music and liked there songs, also i could only find 1 copy off the song on youtube so i figured it would be ok
Whats itss liek being married to an artist? does he try to correct things that dont need correcting? like I make everything perpendicular XD
well we are both sort of artists, I do photography and various other more crafty things like jewelry and flower arrangements, it;’s actually great because he helps me out whenever I’m doing photography, he has a good eye and great taste, so yeah.
Do you and Evan have any plans for an Evan and a Janette Jr.?
We’d like to have kids one day, I’ve always wanted to be a wife and a mom above anything else- it’s just who I am. I want to be out of college with a degree and maybe working for a year or two before we have kids.
on the comic I Love Doing This what was the dog doing that made u say “why don’t u ever listen me” “What?” (heh i love that part)
if u think i meant im calling ur husband a dog srry i couldnt think of any other way to phrase it at the time the what parts is when he said what in the 2nd panel
my bad, Evan explained it and then I told him to take down my idiotic statement. Not sure what the dog might have been doing, we were probably working on tricks, she has a few that she has great difficultly with, like weaving through my legs, oh well.
Where in the world is carmen sandiego?
and what type’s of music do you and evan listen too? (i dont know if someone already asked that.)
We both really love Death Cab for Cutie and music like that, I really don’t listen to musci as often as Evan- he works and listens to purevolume, I like a lot of women singers that I can sing along with like Alicia Keys and whatnot.
ok heres one Janett, well two actually, does your dog REALLY look as weird as it does in the comic? and is Evan actually the way he is in the comic’s? (you know what i mean)
the dog looks like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/janettewalker/4251466679/
and yes Evan is the same in real life around me, he’s more introverted around other people though.
just checked out your photographs – you’re fantastic!!
daw thanks c-squared! You’re pretty fantastic yourself!
so how long have you guys been married? and hows life goinng for you two?
214 days,
and good, it has been a huge adjustment, but we love each other and work out all our problems with lots of laughter.
awww
i can see that im the comics lol
are things really like that at home?
ha ha depends on the day :) But overall yes, I am SO incredibly blessed to have him!
Who is your favorite super hero? Mine is huntress from justice league ^-^
I like spiderman? I’m not really sure, Evan is more of the comic book guy..
Janette should write a Semi-True Tale :D! What’s her opinion of this?
When I try to be purposely funny it normally doesn’t work out. And it would take me forever to make characters on photoshop, all I really know how to do on photoshop is photo editing.
how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
sorry, i felt like being spontaneous,
p.s. Can you please ask Evan to draw a squirrel in one of the following comics?
:3 i love squirrels
I love SQUIRRELS too!
I really don’t know what a wood chuck is- a beaver? If it’s a beaver then LOTS of wood, they can really make a mess! Oh okay -I just looked it up it’s a land beaver- then yes lots of wood!
PS I love spontaneity!
what do you think about Chile?
Are you from chile? So sorry about the earthquake man.
hope you and ur fam are fine!
heh never said i did, but i do, indeed.
yeah nothing happened to my family or any parent.
Thx for caring, anyway.
I have a friend from Chile, I don’t know too much about it though- no. I know they have a great climate for fruits and I know where it is and whatnot.
So sorry that your family lives there- in respect to what happened. I haven’t seen the news since the earthquake happened, but I’m going to go check it out in a minute. I’m glad everything is okay for your family! Natural disasters sure aren’t a respecter of persons!
heh thx
hey hi, I have fun reading this comic, I usually do so at work, anyways you both seem a fun and interesting couple, I hope when I marry I can have an awesome wife like you and a nice relation too
anyways just saying hi
and the question, what is the most exotic place that you have visited?
I’m from Mexico
Just hold out for the right person is my advice- so many times people decide to settle as they get older. My brother in law waited until he was 30 (well waited till he found my sister) and not he is ridiculously happy!
Well I haven’t been to too many places, but I’ve been to Labadee, Haiti- a royal carribean owned island, the cruise ship told people not to venture into certain parts of the island because – we somehow heard because of cannibals?? and voodoo is still practiced there. (that’s just what we heard- but it was WAY beautiful there and I would definately go back- I wasn’t really worried)
Are the semi-true tales really semi-true? Or are they just false?
Semi-true all the way!!
Have you ever secretly thought to yourself “I need a talking cat!”
um no, maybe a regular cat someday,
if it were to talk it would probably say “tuna” WAY too much!
lol
Hey! :) I see you’re into photography too! :D Much like myself (Ryan) Do you have any favourite photographers? I love Dan Winters work. What kind of camera you shoot with? (you can just say the brand, not the model if you don’t want to) :D Fave type of Photography?
Well fave photographers well old would have to be Dorothea Lange she had some muscular problem I think or leg problem and was still able to trek around the US and take amazing photos during the Depression.
I met Steve McCurry and admire SO much of his work too, but those are all photojournalists- I’m more into portraiture and nature.
I’m going to have to look up Dan Winters.
I use a Canon Rebel xsi but I’m really hoping to upgrade to a Canon Mark 3 on day.
Favorite type of photography to look at -Fashion, but favorite type to do is a toss up between nature and bridal.
Do you have a website? I love looking at photos. Happy shooting :)
I do not have a website for myself :( But, that is why I’m in school at the moment! :D Lightroom, Photoshop, Dslr classes. the works. It’s only a matter of time. I do have a flickr though! :) http://www.flickr.com/people/Rkastner
This account was made for work to be submitted to my DSLR Class. But non the less, i will try to put my best work up there! :)
Dan Winters uses 4×5 film, in whats called a Large Format camera. (And Medium) he has gotten private sittings with President Obama, and other famous Celebrities. http://www.danwintersphoto.com he does limited retouching, although his work looks so surreal, it is because it captures images in such great detail, IT IS as if you were looking right at them. It is a pain, but it’s all for the sake of the photograph. :D
If I pickup any sites with albums of photos, ill send them to you :) (or, evan can send them :P)
Adobe Lightroom teacher
http://www.adamblasberg.com
DSLR teacher
http://www.andrewtripp.com
So you’re not going to a college just taking courses with these photographers, or do your professors just have sites? I’ve looked into that, isn’t it expensive?
Dan Winters is good, very quirky style. For being such a famous photographer he could have a better website though.
What are you planning to do with photography?
Sorry, I’m in a program at college (Photography). Langara College in B.C. The teachers still do their work outside of their teachings.
it can be expensive, but you can build your certificate around what YOU want to do, so you don’t have to invest in EVERY class, just the ones you need.
Yeah, Dan Winter’s site isn’t very…up to date, but I guess he doesn’t care for his site. I plan on taking all sorts of photos, from Portrait, Commercial, Fashion (Runway or not) Landscape, Still Life, Nature. I’m not wanting to do Wedding, or Barmitzvah’s :P nothing of that sort. Sports too, thats not high on my list, but it’s one i definitely want to do.
Good, diversity is important!
as an artist, what’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen? if you can’t decide, just say one of the first answers that popped into your head.
P.S. maybe I’m just being OCD, but is there some reason the “Ask the Wife” picture shows you in your jammies? although I supposed that shouldn’t surprise me given the name of the webcomic. :D
You’re going to be like “ewww gross too sentimental” but I thought about Evan first, I guess the day we got married when he was saying his vows with his whole heart, it made me tear up, just his whole face so in love with me. That’s what I though about.
I totally told Evan to give me a shirt color!! That’s so funny that you mentioned that!! I totally agree!
awwww, that is not gross, it’s awesome! *warm fuzzies* :)
heehee, great minds think alike!!
Hellos!
Your hubby does an amazing job with this web comic, it’s the best I’ve seen in some time! Woo!
I went to the Art Institutes International of Minnesota for a while to be an animator, and they had a photography major there too and your art is so insanely spectacular it just takes my breath away! I just got done looking at your art on Flickr, and it is AMAZING! I love it!! XD
Anyways, the question I wanted to ask was what school did you go to for photography! I’m a fan now, Oh and do you have a deviantart account so I can check that out too?
Thanks for the compliments!! I think Evan does a great job too! As for me thanks, again!!! I love photography- I have a long way to go- but I know what I need to work on and what I have left to learn.
I’m going to a community college right now, in a few years I might go to Sam Houston State University.
I’m not sure that I’m going to get a photography major- (I’ll take some photography courses)- but I think it might be important for me to learn the business side so I can start my own studio one day.
I don’t have a deviant art thing, I should look into it maybe..
Thanks again!
what are the chances you’ll come out with a web comic of your own or write a script for evan to ink out?
I’ve tried to pitch several ideas at him (one just last night involving easter bunny hunting) but he really wants to come up with it all by himself, I have very little imput. As for making comics myself, well I don’t really draw so I think I’ll leave the comic making to him.
I never realized you were a photographer! I’m an amatuer one myself, I just started taking classes this semester. And eventually I want to sell my prints, so is there any tips you can give a novice?
I’m no pro for the record, but my best advice is study! Sounds boring, but look at photos all the time and everywhere, figure out why you like certain ones, think about the lighting used, it’s direction and how it hits the subject. I also think about things to shoot, photo shoots I want to set up things like that. In my day to day doings I think about how I would frame something that I find worthy of shooting.
Here’s my new facebook page if you want to be a fan, I plan on putting tips and stuff up.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Janette-Diaz-Photography/362546762650
And this is my photography/ life blog
http://janettediaz.wordpress.com/
I’ve already put advice and what not up there.
Sorry the facebook one didn’t work, I guess you can search “Janette Diaz Photography”- that’s my page name. Happy shooting! (photos)
Awesome thanks! I like your photography ^-^
How did you first meet Evan?
He was going to college in my town. He visited Church services where I attended and I introduced myself. We were friends for about a year and then we started dating!
are you so “child-friendly” in real life?
I love kids! (As long as the kid isn’t a brat- then I give them what-for).
So how did Evan take the idea of a baby? Didja smack him with a baseball bat again for not giving you one yet?
are you easily grossed out?