Since this cartoon had the final text decided very early on, it does not show what happened to most of the After Eden cartoons. At this point, I usually either added the final text or made changes to the text until it worked for the cartoon. Finalizing the text is probably the second hardest part of creating a cartoon (than and now). It might not seem like much, but if you don't get the text just right, the readers may not understand the cartoon, the cartoon might not be funny, or worse, it could be Biblically wrong. There are so many ways to get the text wrong. This is where members of the AiG staff became very valuable to me as After Eden reviewers. I showed some of them the cartoon before anyone saw it on the Internet. Based on their comments, I made the final changes to the text. The cartoon was now ready to be converted into the right file formats to appear online.
Total drawing and computer time for After Eden: 1 to 2 hours for each panel (now it's mostly drawing on a tablet). it depended on how much there was to draw and how fast a cartoon came together. Sometimes I didn't have to draw more than one rough sketch to know I had it just right.
The hardest time-consuming parts are getting the ideas for the cartoon and tweaking the text at the end. I can't put a time guesstimate on those.