{"id":116857,"date":"2020-04-10T17:30:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=ab1gdyed"},"modified":"2020-04-10T17:30:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T17:30:52","slug":"meet-the-developer-catana-chetwynd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/10\/meet-the-developer-catana-chetwynd\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the developer: Catana Chetwynd"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For fans of Catana Comics, her sticker app was love at first sight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Thanksgiving with her boyfriend\u2019s parents, a bout of the flu, and a \u201cvery old\u201d iPad. These were the circumstances that gave rise to Catana Chetwynd\u2019s beloved cartoons back in 2016, when she was 21 years old.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been playing around with drawing on the iPad for a few months and John [now her fianc\u00e9] suggested that I make a comic,\u201d she says. \u201cIt seemed like a good way to pass the time, since I wasn\u2019t feeling well. Turns out, it was really fun!\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the next few days, she drew five more comics based on everyday situations in her relationship, like not-so-subtly requesting back rubs from John and rolling her eyes at his juvenile jokes.<\/p>\n

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John and Catana: the real-life couple behind the cartoons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

John, a software engineer, posted them on Reddit, and the internet fell hard: more than 2,000 comments poured in.\u2028\u2028\u201cWe were really surprised by the flood of positive responses,\u201d Chetwynd says. John set up a website and she created an Instagram account\u2014which now has nearly 3 million followers\u2014and Catana Comics was born.\u2028\u2028\u201cThere are some incredibly awesome webcomics out there,\u201d Chetwynd says, \u201cbut when we started, there weren\u2019t really any based on a couple.\u201d She has found that most of her fans enjoy sharing her comics with a significant other.<\/p>\n

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How Catana Comics go from sketch to screen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It makes sense, then, that the number-one request Chetwynd got from her followers was for a sticker pack. With the Catana Comics iMessage app, fans can easily exchange her big-eyed, huge-hearted caricatures with a special someone.\u2028\u2028\u201cShortly after we came out with the first batch of stickers,\u201d Chetwynd says, \u201cI received an email from a woman who said that her husband was on a very long business trip in a different time zone. She loved that the stickers allowed them to quickly send emotive messages without using words.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fans demanded stickers\u2014and here they are.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Chetwynd can relate, since she and John connect via her stickers too: \u201cWe both work from home, but in different rooms, and there are so many days where the only communication we\u2019ll have is sending each other a sticker every hour or so.\u201d\u2028\u2028One of her go-tos: a drawing of John looking at a picture of her saying, \u201cI miss you.\u201d\u2028\u2028\u201cIt was in the very first release and I wasn\u2019t thinking it could be funny when I made it, but now John will go to the bathroom and I\u2019ll send it to him,\u201d she says. \u201cI use it almost every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally published on the App Store.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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