R. Stevens is the creator of the webcomic Diesel Sweeties, the pixel-based drama of unrequited love and a lot of other stuff. He, like all good people who are chosen to be interviewed by Penguinbros.com, took his precious time off to write the answers to 7 potentially damaging questions.

 

Purple Penguin: Let's just get this out of the way: are you a Mac user?

 

R. Stevens: I haven't used anything else since i had a Commodore VIC-20 at age 6
or so. I use the machines that feel good and that I've had a lifetime
to learn about. I had Macs in school until I could afford one at home
... and since then, I've never had less than two operating at any
given time.

 

Purple Penguin: Why did you make this webcomic? Was it meant as commentary on your life, or just 4 panels of "lowbrow" humor?

 

R. Stevens: I *had* to make a comic because I was incredibly bored in my
employment. I had time to make a comic because I had a boring job. I
was drawing a lot of computer icons at the time and zooming in on
things a lot... it all just kind of fell into place.

 

Purple Penguin: What tools do you make each strip with?

 

R. Stevens: Photoshop and a 2-button mouse on my G4 tower "The Mighty Behemo". I
just draw the whole thing by hand using the aliased (non-blurring)
3-pixel square pencil tool.

 

Purple Penguin: Which character do you identify most with or - if the characters are just extentions of everything that you hate about the world and yourself - least identify with (including robots)?

 

R. Stevens: It's a big jumbly mess. I can tell you who I don't identify with -
Pete, Menace-11 and Metal Steve. I'm mostly made up of Clango, Lil' Sis, Red Robot and Johnny Toaster.

 

Purple Penguin: Do you support any, all, or none of the lifestyles in the comic?

 

R. Stevens: I think cross-cultural and cross-racial dating is cool. I think
making fun of elitists is cool. I think robots rock. The only thing I
really don't support is being a jerk and/or having a mullet. (Even
though I grew one by accident this summer)

 

Purple Penguin: Any advice to people looking for members of the opposite sex?

 

R. Stevens: Don't try to impress them. If they aren't impressed with you the way
you are, it's not worth acting differently because you won't be able
to keep it up forever.

 

Purple Penguin: Last question: Which do you like more? Food or pooping?

 

R. Stevens: Damn, that's a tough one! I'm going to go with "coffee" because it's
tastier than food and it CAUSES the pooping!