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 The idea for I'm Blue had
its genesis WAY back in late 1999/early 2000, when I was struggling with the
desire to do a comic strip for my college's newspaper, but was undecided on
subject matter, and wondered whether I would actually be able to make the
strip that I wanted to make in the space that I wanted to make it. Around
about late January in 2000, I stumbled across Penny Arcade - the very first
webcomic I'd ever read - and could not stop laughing. I was enthralled with
the idea of putting a comic on the web (now it seems like "well, DUH," but
trust me, at the time it seemed revo-frickin-lutionary), and almost at once I
started coming up with a cast of characters... who quickly evolved into Blue
and her friends.
 However, sadly, for all
this drive I had bugger-all technical know-how: this changed in the fall of
2000, when I met Josiah, who taught me how to use Photoshop, and shortly after
we began dating. I told him of my ideas, and he agreed to help me set up a
webpage for it, and for a full year I puttered around clearing up character
design, coming up with script ideas (honestly, most of which have never been
used), and generally mucking about. In October 2001 we were lucky enough to
have Lem "Hot Soup" Pew of Lethal Doses consent to hang out with us (after me
finding out that holy crap, he lived in the Twin Cities too). After he saw my
drawings, he said "Yeah, it's good. Why the hell isn't it up on the web yet?"
- thus giving me the kick in the ass I needed to actually START the comic, and
quit dithering around. (Thank you again, Lem!) Thus a month later, on
November 6, 2001, I'm Blue FINALLY went live, and Josiah took on the 'Web Guy'
title he holds to this day - as I remain the hack writer/artist/creator that I
am.
After attracting volumes of praise (untrue) and millions of fans (that's a
lie), the comic is still going strong, even after such moments as finishing
college (May 2003), getting married to the self-same Web Guy Josiah (May 2003
as well), moving to Irvine (also May 2003), and making it through many work
milestones and crunch times. I still love making this comic, and it's my hope
you guys enjoy it. Thanks.
- Annie "Blue" C
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