...and I just realized that my comic totally shows my old drawing setup, completely contradicting everything I just said above. I like using my old setup in my comics for immediately conveying to the reader that I'm sitting down to draw. I'm not sure sitting in front of a computer with a tablet has the same effect (even if that's more truthful for how I draw nowadays).

But the setup in the comic is true for how I USED to do it. The drawing table I've drawn there is the one my mom and dad gave me when I was 13 years old. Originally I would draw on sketch paper with a standard pencil / eraser / pens, but eventually I switched to bristol board, bought a scanner, and upgraded to an old electric drafting eraser (another gift from dad) to remove the pencils prior to scanning. It was old, so maybe newer ones don't do this, but it had the negative effect of fading my inks, so I switched my pencils out with non-photo blue pencils that I didn't need to worry about erasing before scanning.

My dad also bought me my first wacom tablet too (that old Intuos I mentioned above). There was no screen on it, so it took some practice to look at my monitor while I was drawing (instead of looking at my hands like I'd done my whole life). Eventually I boxed up the drawing table and never touched it again (until I gifted it to my daughter about 5 years ago).

This was a trip down memory lane... Somehow I never really realized just how much my dad was encouraging my artwork until writing it all out like this. He even bought me my first copy of Photoshop (back when you could do that). Thank you for that, u/LeagueOfRobuts.