50 Comics About Everyday Conversations And Jobs In Retail By Stephen Beals (New Pics)

Stephen is known for his webcomic showcasing the reality of working in retail. He perfectly captures all the struggles and everyday situations that people working in customer service need to face. Some of them involve interactions between shop assistants and customers, while others focus on relations among employees - both those working in the same positions and between colleagues of different ranks, as well as with their bosses.

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60 Humorous Comics That Retail Workers And Regular People Will Probably Relate To, By Stephen Beals (New Pics)

As you may remember, Stephen Beals never slows down, and releases new strips daily! We were curious if there are times the artist faces a creative block and if so how he overcomes it. Beals shared with us: “I read a lot of different writers. I’ve come to believe what Lee Child says about writer’s block. He doesn’t really believe in it. A lot of it is muscle memory. There are so many days when I can’t think of a single thing. But like all jobs, you develop a routine. I make coffee, sit at my drawing board, get my supplies ready, and comb over things I’ve experienced that day. Inevitably, something will come. Now, if I’m working on any number of things that I have to do during the course of the day that require my concentration, chances are that I won’t be able to think of anything. I can’t multitask and write. It’s work that requires my full attention.”Beals continued: “There are always exceptions. Some ideas will come out of nowhere, like a gift from the gods, but usually, it’s work. I don’t know about novelists, but cartoonists can doodle their way into an idea. There have been times when I’ve started drawing first and the dialog follows. There have been many more times when no ideas follow what I’ve drawn, so that isn’t a very successful method.”

Beals continued: “There are always exceptions. Some ideas will come out of nowhere, like a gift from the gods, but usually, it’s work. I don’t know about novelists, but cartoonists can doodle their way into an idea. There have been times when I’ve started drawing first and the dialog follows. There have been many more times when no ideas follow what I’ve drawn, so that isn’t a very successful method.”

60 Humorous Comics That Retail Workers And Regular People Will Probably Relate To, By Stephen Beals (New Pics)

The illustrator added: “My classmates at the California Institute of the Arts were about as pivotal as it got. Being around such creative people made me more creative and more aware of what I was doing. That continues to be the case.”

60 Humorous Comics That Retail Workers And Regular People Will Probably Relate To, By Stephen Beals (New Pics)

Lastly, we wanted to know if Beals recalls an anecdote about a particularly memorable interaction he had with a reader who related deeply to one of the artist’s comics. We found out that indeed, he does: “Work stories! I don’t have one, specific anecdote from a reader, but people have commented on the strip with their own stories at work. Sometimes they write that I’ve dredged up a forgotten memory and go into detail about a horrible, real-life work situation that no writer could ever dream up. Inevitably, it starts out with ‘Back when I worked at…’ and they proceed to write about something that is the perfect mix of drama and comedy. Real life. You can’t beat it.”

60 Humorous Comics That Retail Workers And Regular People Will Probably Relate To, By Stephen Beals (New Pics)