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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><a href="../../2.1/uc/index.html"><font color="#904C10" size="3">Under 
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                      <div align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">By 
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 2&nbsp; <br>
                      November 15, 1999&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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              <p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">His work 
                history reads the same way; Game designer. Writer. Editor. Corrections 
                officer. Graphic artist. Web guy. Production manager for some 
                press publications. Art Director for travel magazine. Project 
                manager. Hang on, did I read Corrections Officer? On the subject 
                of that job, he says, &quot;I was using it as a 'see if I like 
                law enforcement' stepping-stone to join the Royal Canadian Mounted 
                Police&quot;.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">When asked 
                further about his work as a game designer; &quot;I was on staff 
                as a designer/developer for Columbia Games, a paper RPG and war 
                game company. I've written for a fair amount for other tabletop 
                game companies as a freelancer. Titles and lines I've worked on 
                include Harn, Wyrm's Lair and Cyberpunk 2020. There is a pile 
                of other titles I've written for as well.&quot;</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">UF was 
                born while he was working as the creative guy at an ISP, so a 
                lot of the humor comes from real-life experiences and stories. 
                &quot;All of my co-workers are funny...in one way or another.&quot;</font></p>
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                    <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"> 
                      <ignoreme>Illiad on Quake III (43k).</ignoreme></font></i></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It didn't 
                take long for the decidedly geeky humor of User Friendly to capture 
                the hearts of a receptive Internet audience, probably because 
                we all see a little bit of ourselves, or someone we know, in the 
                various UF characters. </font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In fact, 
                User Friendly is Illiad's full time work now, a dream come true 
                for any writer or artist, that recently culminated in the publishing 
                of the first UF book. The book, titled, User Friendly - The Comic 
                Strip, collects together the first year's worth of strips. Published 
                by O'Reilly &amp; Associates, the book has been selling like proverbial 
                hotcakes through places like Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565926730/userfriendltheco/002-3326990-4834620), 
                Borders, Barnes &amp; Noble, B. Dalton, etc. And he still publishes 
                one comic per day on the US web site (http://www.userfriendly.org), 
                although his creation timetable is a little more erratic. &quot;Sometimes 
                I do five in a day, sometimes I do none. I usually do in between 
                that.&quot;</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In the 
                early days UF was drawn with a ballpoint pen onto photocopy paper 
                and then he moved onto pencil and inking pens on illustration 
                board. The next step was to a Wacom graphics tablet and UF has 
                been completely digital ever since.</font></p>
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                    <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"> 
                      <ignoreme>Yes, it's true - Pitr's a mug (20k).</ignoreme></font></i></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&quot;In 
                the case of the [loonygames] cover I spent about 90% of the time 
                thinking about what I wanted to put on the digital canvas. I just 
                let my mind wander and something usually comes to me, although 
                most of the time the results can be strange. Once that's done, 
                I start with a rough of the image and then I do the real line 
                work. When the line work is finished I apply color and depth and 
                all that other stuff that real artists know about and I only begin 
                to understand.&quot;</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I asked 
                Illiad what his relationship with art was - was it a necessary 
                evil, required to get the joke across, or something he really 
                enjoys; &quot;I love art, but I have a long way to go as a visual 
                artist. My real art is in my writing.&quot;</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Outside 
                of &quot;work&quot; (if you can call drawing cartoons 'work', 
                Illiad has a number of (unsurprisingly varied) interests, including 
                playing both computer and tabletop games (there's always another 
                Quake reference just around the corner in the UF universe, and 
                rumor has it that there may well be a UF reference in Quake III: 
                Arena!), reading (science-fiction to historical to philosophical), 
                writing (prose to poetry), long distance running and even rollerblading.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And what 
                of the future? &quot;I want to learn and get good at: horseback 
                riding, scuba diving, and watercolor painting. I also want to 
                write a few books and get them published - I'm not too far from 
                the first one.&quot;</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Anyway, 
                we couldn't finish this off article without finding out who (or 
                what) Illiad's favorite UF character is?</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&quot;A.J. 
                He's a freak.&quot;</font></p>
              <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i>- 
                Rowan &quot;Sumaleth&quot; Crawford is loonygames' Supervising 
                Art Director.</i></font></p>
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<p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Credits: Cover illustration 
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