A friend of mine and I had our friends come up with a topic for a comic-off. The topic was LOTR and STD's.
Industry Elites Added As Judges for Webcomic Contest
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LACKT you make comics about gay men making out and you apparently subscribe to Gaygamer.com hmmmm its almost as if there is a connection. "scratches head"
Admit it.... your a yaoui fangirl
Me I personally try to stay away from gay jokes for the most part. It's like swearing it makes a much bigger impact if you don't normally use them.
Admit it.... your a yaoui fangirl
Me I personally try to stay away from gay jokes for the most part. It's like swearing it makes a much bigger impact if you don't normally use them.
Eh, comics got to be original, whether that means having really great artwork and so so jokes, really great jokes and horrible art, or whatever else has yet to be done.
You never know what's going to be the next big thing or what your future audience is looking for! Just give it a shot, whatever you've got, they'll be someone out there who'll like it, and you can always keep getting better.
Ok, I'm done being all preachy and whatever...
You never know what's going to be the next big thing or what your future audience is looking for! Just give it a shot, whatever you've got, they'll be someone out there who'll like it, and you can always keep getting better.
Ok, I'm done being all preachy and whatever...
If my artist is up for it, absolutely. But, of course, I wouldn't be able to make any call on that without talking to him first about what direction, if any, he'd want to try running with it first.Decoy Doctorpus said:
I have a feeling that my project could do well on at a different location, provided I could catch an audience. The idea isn't even arguably "Video Game" centric. Pop culture/internet humor/geek&nerd based type of stuff? Certainly. I have little doubt the crowd who hangs out around here would enjoy the concept if it won (but hey, I'll admit, I'm bias), though on the other hand, I don't have much in terms of outside judgement on how good or bad our comic is. Only two/three people outside of the judges know what it is (but rest assure, I'll be making it known what I've been going with win or loose. If my artist doesn't beat me to it).
Thing is, getting an audience is the biggest problem - I'm not that great at getting web audiences. Maybe all I'd need would be the help of someone else to make it work that way (like say, the guy who's doing the art), but winning this contest is really the only sure-fire way I know of to get one of any reasonable size.
So, well...yeah.
You would have to put some serious effort into organizing it, lest the project die. You ever hear of Infinity on 30 credits a day? A project that David Morgan-Mar, the guy behind Irregular Webcomic (and now, one of the guys behind Darths & Droids) tried to organize - an attempt at a webcomic written by several people. Long story short, the thing started arguably strong, but then quickly began to tailspin and hasn't been touched since.MaTT2011 said:
I like to think there's some kind of compromise to be had between "jokes that will entertain gamers" and "jokes that will entertain people who have no idea what they're looking at"boybokeh said:
Yo,Coela,didna know you joined!Are you using comic sans?Coelasquid said:I like to think there's some kind of compromise to be had between "jokes that will entertain gamers" and "jokes that will entertain people who have no idea what they're looking at"boybokeh said:
Hey man, it's John, right? (I'm not used to seeing you with screen names that don't have "John" in them) Yeaaaah, I couldn't resist. I had a bunch of people telling me I should be entering, so I figured I'd be letting them down if I didn't give it a go.
The font is Tekton Pro, I think. I used it for the comics I entered as well, but I turned on that all-caps thing where it makes all the lower case letters into smaller versions of the regular capitals. I like that it looks a little like a more uniform version of my blocky, all-caps handwriting and it's condensed enough that I could fit the dialogue I wanted in without totally obscuring all of the backgrounds that I actually went through the trouble of drawing for once.
If your Manly comics win,I won't feel so bad losing this contest...There should be a term for your art, it should be uhhh..."Burly"-esque!Coelasquid said:Hey man, it's John, right? (I'm not used to seeing you with screen names that don't have "John" in them) Yeaaaah, I couldn't resist. I had a bunch of people telling me I should be entering, so I figured I'd be letting them down if I didn't give it a go.
The font is Tekton Pro, I think. I used it for the comics I entered as well, but I turned on that all-caps thing where it makes all the lower case letters into smaller versions of the regular capitals. I like that it looks a little like a more uniform version of my blocky, all-caps handwriting and it's condensed enough that I could fit the dialogue I wanted in without totally obscuring all of the backgrounds that I actually went through the trouble of drawing for once.
not consistently updating is a comic killer. I guess that's why they have it in the contest rules, twice a week sort of thing. It should be interesting to the winner if he is able to negotiate some sort of allowed timespan. I feel that would be another deciding factor besides art and writing. You can be great but if you fall to the wayside like vgcats and dresdencodak and surf on the escapist traffic as it is, I don't imagine they will appreciate that.Hainted said:
I think that twice a week will be really difficult for some people, I took the 2 a week into consideration when I made my style. My plan was make it simple enough that I could possibly make 3-5 a week so I would have backups for if I get sick, writers block, vacation, etc.
Actually that's another question we should post. If you kept up the style you used for your entry could you make two or more a week?
Actually that's another question we should post. If you kept up the style you used for your entry could you make two or more a week?
Yeah, my mother asked me if I could show her the strips. I guess she regretted that when she saw them and all she could say was "Such pretty colours!".Clankenbeard said:
I dunno if it's been pointed out already or not, but this is typically called a "Fusion" comic and there's actually a whole community devoted to it. I won't bother posting the URL here but if you google it you'll find it immediately.MaTT2011 said:
I've also heard the term "Add-on" coined. But an add-on tends to just be one frame continuously updated by several artists (sometimes on a table at an IHOP) and a fusion comic actually has a set of rules such as you can only see the last frame created and you can't do show-stoppers (like whole black frames with the word CENSORED or just an explosion cloud that doesn't fit, or MEANWHILE AT THE FIREWORKS FACTORY).
I'm also fairly certain I had seen a comic in moderate popularity that had a weekly update schedule where a different artist drew the next full page in the story arc. The name escapes me though.
I like all the ideas buzzing around here about group projects. I know I've participated in a few and non of them honestly worked out great. Also all the posts of personal comics makes me wanna go dig up a (of corse non related to my own comic...) comic and post it showing of my stuff. As the terminator said, "I'll be back!".
Nedroid's Anthony Clark and Potter Puppet Pals' creator Neil's little sister Emmy Cicierega have a back-and-forth, they call it Laserpony and it is hilarious.MaTT2011 said:
http://binsybaby.livejournal.com/597341.html
If you don't know who these people are:
http://nedroid.com
http://emmyc.com <----Emmy is a FANTASTIC illustrator.
Also, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to continue my submission. I have other projects I need to finish and a commitment without some kind of compensation is unattractive to me. It sounds shallow, but I have work to do; I'm trying to get back into school. If I'm not able to get this contract, I'm going to attend school in Japan. If I DO land the contract, I'll have work for while I'm in Japan.
Still also, I met Ryan North at MoCCA and SPX last year. He is one kickass dude.