So this comic took a little extra doing. Actually, it took the normal amount of doing, just with the added benefit of a right hand index finger plagued by seven stitches and a formerly gaping slice.
I took a chunk of a finger off a few years ago at my first job making a mockup under pressure, and I once had to drive a student to the emergency room when she did the same thing only way worse. This injury way less heroic where putting your life on the line for your job is concerned. After years of cutting everything I could get my hands on with a super-sharp exacto-knife, I cut the living crap out of myself… washing a steak-knife in my sink.
Seven stitches and still rocking the comic. Booya.
Nate Voss is a designer, illustrator, talkshow host and design journalist. Working in Omaha since 2001, Nate served four years on the Board of Directors for 
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Sadly, my worst injury to date was the one time I actually had a project done in advance. As I was cutting it out to mount, I sliced a chunk of my thumb off. Not as epic as a steak knife though. Thanks for still posting!
Conrad is just being fully committed to his design’s splatter texture. How do you get a splatter effect?
Not good, Nate! Glad to see you saved it. Hope this doesn’t keep you from the n, h, y, u, j, and m keys for too long.
who would of guessed that a designers worst pointer finger injury would come from a steak knife instead of an x-acto.
If you’ve never spilled blood on your final presentation boards, you haven’t truly lived. (or you’re a web designer.)
Dude, your pointer finger is dressed up as a deceased Egyptian King for Halloween, six months early! Ha!
I once stepped on a new blade barefoot. Didn’t even feel it till I saw the carpet. Yikes!