In SECURITY

in SECURITY is a Monday-Saturday B&W comic strip with occasional Sunday comics in color. The series is promoted as being made by Bea R. since she created and designed the main characters herself, but it is produced as a team effort with her husband ("Mr. Husband"), who provided some input into the characters.

Initially, Bea had only created individual characters in 2010. Mr. Husband suggested using them for a comic strip. Work began on updating the appearance and background of the characters, and creating a new character nicknamed "Hubbs" for the comic.

The comic centers around the issues that come with a new married life and other relationships, with two of the characters working together at the same company as security guards. The series title refers to those two characters since they are "in security" for their occupations, as well as the insecurities that can come with relationships.

in SECURITY debuted on January 2, 2017 on GoComics. It is also available on the Tapas and WebToons sites where the story arc titles are provided and the comic strip panels are split apart to make them easier to read on a mobile device. The Tapas site combines several comics into one page that showed an entire story arc (or into two or three parts), but stopped being updated in January 2021. The main difference is the Webtoon and Tapas releases are at a larger size, making it easier to pick up on small details.

On February 1, 2020, Bea R. announced via Sedine in a color comic that the series was going on a five week hiatus to "recupperate" after four years of non-stop work without a proper vacation or break. In the comments, she stated comics, sketches and illustrations available through Patreon would not be affected. New comics resumed on March 10th.

Creation process
Details about how the comic strip is created were provided in a Q&A post on the Tapas website. With the exception of final touch-up and coloration, it is an entirely hand-drawn process. In summary, the artwork is created as follows:


 * 1) Mr. Husband draws rough sketches on full-size sheets of paper, based on the ideas they've come up with.
 * 2) Bea uses a lightbox built into her drawing table so she can transfer the roughs into more refined drawings on paper laid on top of the roughs.
 * 3) Any changes Bea makes are discussed for approval or revision.
 * 4) Bea makes a new drawing using finer graphite pencils.
 * 5) Mr. Husband draws in the final lines using Nib pens and black india waterproof ink.
 * 6) Halftones are applied, final cleanup is performed, and other elements that are prepared separately may be pasted onto the page.

In July 2021, Bea R. announced via her Patreon account that the series will continue into a sixth year but would transition to an all-digital process. The release schedule may also change, depending on whether full digital production speeds up the drawing process.

Publications
The first compilation of the comic strips, "She's Sed," He Said. was released on July 9, 2018. It includes the comics for the first eighteen months, from through.

The second compilation is "Hey, Sam!"

The third compilation is "Thumb Life".

Story arc titles in the books may be slightly different than the Webtoon arc titles.

Official sites

 * GoComics: Published Monday to Saturday in newspaper format with occasional Sunday comics. Link takes you to the overview for the current day's comic.
 * Webtoons: Rearranges the comic strip panels into a vertical format at a larger size for easier reading on mobile devices. Link takes you to the list of comics with their titles, such as "Cellular Seoul", with the most recent comic listed first. Initially, the comics were grouped together under a single arc title and were published a few days apart, but eventually, the comics were published daily and the titles adjusted to add "pt 1" or something similar onto them.
 * Tapas: Presents the comics in the same format at Webtoon, but collects several comics together for the major story arc they are a part of, with releases occurring when at least three strips can be presented together. Link takes you to the first story arc. When you reach the bottom, you can keep scrolling to load in the next story arc page. (Last update was the "On thin ice" storyline from January 2021 but was released in May 2021.)
 * Sunday comics on Tapas. Last update was "Lost in Translation" on November 17, 2019.

Both WebToon and the main Tapas site provide extra content like bonus cartoons and Q&A sessions.