Theresa Tschetter, creator of Dontknoweither.org

If I were cool, this is what I would look like.

My name is Theresa Tschetter. I work in the financial industry in midtown Manhattan and I live in New Jersey. I graduated from Juniata College in 2004 with a Bachelor's Degree of Science in Administration of Information Systems. I like coffee, Macintoshes, beer, cursing, small plastic toy dinosaurs, electronica, body wash, and tomatoes.

I grew up on a cattle ranch in the windswept wilds of eastern South Dakota. I was a bored kid, so I drew a lot. I have no formal art training--I'm completely self-taught. The last time I took an art course was in junior high school. I have, however, been drawing ever since I could hold a crayon, and I've been trying desperately to create digital graphics ever since I discovered the Paintbrush application on the school computers when I was 11 years old. Perhaps I've come a long way. Perhaps I haven't.

My biggest influences are Patrick Spaziante, Chiho Saito, Hayao Miyazaki, and John Buscema.

A little bit about DKE: I've been drawing Dontknoweither since 2002. At first, it was a weird, random experimental pet project. For the fall semester of 2002, I was given the opportunity to use Dontknoweither in an IT project at college, Dontknoweither was reborn with a better interface and a php/mysql archiving engine thanks to Wouter, who is multi-lingual, ridiculously smart, and an all-around cool guy.

After that semester ended, Dontknoweither's current plot/universe began at or around Dontknoweither #39. Once the comic was no longer a school project, I decided to branch out and just run with it.

Then, once I got my art style solidified and I got to know the characters better, I realized that the tangly old craziness of comics 1 through 449 wasn't really doing the Dontknoweither Universe any justice, so I decided to start anew.

Dontknoweither is penciled in non-repro blue on 11"x14" Bristol board. I then "ink" over the blue with regular HB mechanical pencil, scan it, and then drop out whatever cyan/blue remains in Photoshop. I used to ink everything with Sakura pens, but I found this rather time-consuming and expensive. I have a sweet Staedtler drawing board and a boring Canon LiDE scanner. Cleanup, fonts, and toning are all done in Photoshop.

Dontknoweither owes big thanks to the Linuxboxen Project, a group of fantastic sysadmins who have very graciously provided hosting and storage.

If you like Dontknoweither, send me an email sometime. I love hearing from visitors.