A few quick lessons I've learned while constructing my comic in Flash:

• The grid is your friend. Turn it on, and adjust it as needed.


• Leave conversation bubbles until the very end, when you're sure of how you'll lay things out. Otherwise, you'll be doing them over and over again, which is a waste of time and energy.


• Movie clips can be nested inside of graphics and still work ok.


• Groups and drawing objects will save your life. They prevent painted items from melding together unintentionally, and they allow you to order things on a z-axis without relying on a million layers.


• It doesn't really help to make your drawings super-big to begin with. Starting with almost the right size saves you from resizing later, and from frustrating jaggies from a bitmap nested in a resized graphic symbol.


• Flash does appear to get tired once in a while, preventing you from using keyboard commands. Give it a short (10 second) break when this happens.

Also, sometimes creating the work seems more fun than the final product, as evidenced by this screen capture: