History Webcomic / QUILTBAG

* PantyShot: Lisa gets ''quite'' a lot of [[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20111027.html propulsion on her skirt]] for simply hopping off the top bunk.

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: PlayedForDrama with Lisa's casual bedmate Chrissie, who wakes in a panic because she's a male-to-female pre-operative [[{{Transgender}} trans]] person who's sufficiently confused in her identity that she keeps having penetrative sexual intercourse and subsequently regretting it.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Sara gives one of these to [[spoiler:Rene Descartes]] during her BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind.

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Iseul]], married to [[spoiler:Theo]], has an ongoing affair with Elizabeth.

* BiTheWay: Lisa. She mainly likes guys, but [[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20111108.html doesn't rule girls out]]. She does, however, refuse to categorize herself.
--> Fuck ''all'' fuck-labels!

* [[AmbiguouslyGay Ambiguously QUILTBAG]]: [[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20111117.html Hank]] and [[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20111218.html Fiona]]. Campbell eventually [[WordOfGod confirmed]] on the comic's Website/{{Facebook}} page and forum, what most readers had suspected: that [[spoiler: Hank is gay]], while the comic itself eventually confirmed that [[spoiler: Fiona is straight.]]

* ForegoneConclusion: The comic begins five years before the coda of ''PennyAndAggie'', from which a few things can be inferred - most importantly, Lisa will be working on a vodcast professionally with one of Aggie's future girlfriends. And she'll have shaved her head. Furthermore, Sara will eventually have a girlfriend - who was deliberately not shown in ''PennyAndAggie''.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Iseul's]] attraction to women, notwithstanding her [[spoiler:marriage to Theo and disapproval of Sara's lesbianism]], was hinted at in the ''PennyAndAggie'' arc [[Recap/PennyAndAggieHeadhunt Headhunt]].

* NightmareSequence: Sara has one within a single strip. As she ages instantly from childhood to mid-adolescence, a pixellated mass she calls "[[TheNeverendingStory the Nothing]]"--here a previously-seen visual metaphor for the emptiness she feels inside--pursues her at the beach and enters her. The dream briefly turns [[EroticDream erotic]] as her latest crush, Leah, seduces her at her current age. Then it abruptly transitions into a NotWearingPantsDream when Sara is suddenly in class, wearing "underwear" (actually the skimpy outfit Lisa pushed her to wear the night before) and everyone laughing at her. She's actually woken up when someone ''else's'' underwear falls on her bunk.

** [[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20111101.html "My pigtails are also insectoid legs for my detachable head."]] Probably a reference to Lemyra from Charby the Vampirate

* ContestWinnerCameo: For the two-strip sequence in which Sara's and Lisa's dorm neighbours introduce themselves during a floor meeting, Campbell invited readers to submit their first names, along with a photo and self-description, from which he and Waltrip created composite characters: possibly among others, (in order of appearance) Val, Anne-Elaine, Michael, Alex, Jade, an unnamed linguistics instructor, Marie, Ronnie, and an unnamed director.

* [[AmbiguouslyGay Ambiguously QUILTBAG]]: [[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20111117.html Hank]] and [[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20111218.html Fiona]]. Campbell eventually [[WordOfGod confirmed]] on the comic's {{Facebook}} page and forum, what most readers had suspected: that [[spoiler: Hank is gay]], while the comic itself eventually confirmed that [[spoiler: Fiona is straight.]]

'''[[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com QUILTBAG]]''' is a SpinOff of ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'', written by Creator/TCampbell and with art by Jason Waltrip. The focus of the comic is on alternative sexualities, the title being an acronym used by some in RealLife for "Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Asexual, Gay."

** Lisa's [[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20111215.html creative writing composition]] recalls the film ''{{Bent}}''.
** "The Nothing" in Sara's nightmare is an allusion to the PowerOfTheVoid entity in ''TheNeverendingStory''.

* ArtShift: Although ''QUILTBAG'''s artist, Jason Waltrip, is the same one who drew ''PennyAndAggie'' from April 2009 through its September 2011 conclusion, Campbell had him go with a noticeably different style for the SpinOff. The art is thicker-lined and more simple (as in ''{{Fans}}'', Campbell's and Waltrip's other webcomic), in contrast to the thinner-lined and realistic ''PennyAndAggie'' style established by founding artist Gisèle Lagacé. It's also in colour, unlike the majority of ''Penny and Aggie'' strips, and often uses the gradient tool and clip art.

* CutShort

'''[[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com QUILTBAG]]''' is a SpinOff of ''PennyAndAggie'', written by Creator/TCampbell and with art by Jason Waltrip. The focus of the comic is on alternative sexualities, the title being an acronym used by some in RealLife for "Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Asexual, Gay."

The comic follows Sara Kim ([[MeaningfulRename née Velte]]) and Lisa Winklemeyer, two ''Penny and Aggie'' characters who have just started college, and are roommates, at the fictional [[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20120619.html University of]] MillardFillmore, loosely based on the real-life College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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* StrangeGirl: Marie is silent most of the time, speaking only in short sentences or sentence fragments, except under acute stress.

* [[AmbiguouslyGay Ambiguously QUILTBAG]]: [[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20111117.html Hank]] and [[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20111218.html Fiona]]. Campbell eventually [[WordOfGod confirmed]] on the comic's {{Facebook}} page and forum, what most readers had suspected: that [[spoiler: Hank is gay]], while a recent strip confirmed that [[spoiler: Fiona is straight.]]

* LetterMotif: Each chapter is named for a letter in the titular acronym, and within each chapter, the first word (whether dialogue, narrative caption, sound effect or signage) in nearly every strip begins with that letter. For example, the first chapter "Q" features strips with such initial words as "Quack," "Quantum" and "Quote." Furthermore, two of the only strips in the chapter that don't begin with a "Q" nevertheless begin with the ''sound'': "[[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20111020.html Kim]]" and "[[http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/d/20111218.html Cue]]."

* StrangeGirl: Marie...just...Marie.