costa koutsoutis

I have a Sakura mechanical pencil I use to start everything, I got it when I first started making comics. I primarily use a mix of brush pens (Pentel, Zebra, PITT) to ink, doing little effects and cross-hatching with disposable pens (fine-tipped PITT, Sharpie, etc), whatever’s cheapest.

We actually have an office in the house we live in now, it’s our library/cartooning/painting space.

I use a portable architect’s drafting table set up on a cheap Target desk as my workspace, set at a slightly-less-than 45-degree angle.

My primary tools are left on the desk, but the other backup pens, grayscale pens/markers/brushes, and fat Sharpies I’ll use are in coffee cups on top of the minifridge next to me.

I edit comics in free and stupidly-simple photomanipulation software like Paint and Irfanview on my Dell laptop. I’m so archaic it’s insane.

All comics are done and scanned on this little combo device, it’s worked pretty good for me so far all these years. A larger flatbed scanner would be nice, but hey, I’m a man on a budget.

Screenprints of the comic JESUS HATES ZOMBIES signed by writer/creator Stephen Lindsay, a USAGI YOJIMBO sketch by Chris Schweizer, and a sketch of STARLORD by Chris Samnee. My wall of inspiration, so to speak…there’s more art, it’s just not put up.