From the Rejection Pile ("Court case")

Here are the steps I take when drawing my Sunday strips on my Wacom Cintiq:
1) Start with the grids
2) Insert the dialogues
3) Sketch the drawings in blue
4) Go over with black
5) Colour...
6) ...then print!

What you see below was done up to Step #3,
after it was deemed unprintable in the national newspaper: