Poll: Ever try to make a comic?

[TehCookie]

I tried making a comic then remembered I couldn't draw and ended up with a giant sketch book of paper that never should see daylight.

 

[VoleurdeThym]

I've started waaaay too many. Sadly, they seem to bring computer AIDS to me. As soon as one makes it past cell 2, I need to completely reboot, and lose everything. u_u;

 

[sheic99]

I was split between "Yes" and "I can't draw"

Fact is that I've done a few comics, but that doesn't mean I could draw if my life depended on it.

It's the dialogue it's about anyway, not the drawing

Obviously you have never taken a close look at anything written by Alan Moore.

OT: I have tried making a comic. It was for a class and it ended up looking a lot like American Elf.

A comic is great if it has good drawings and good dialogue.

A comic is good if it has bad drawings and good dialogue.

A comic is bad if it has good drawings and bad dialogue.

Wouldn't you agree?

There is more involved to writing that only dialogue. There is pacing, the set-up of the panels, the placement of figures, and the angle of the scene are all decided by the writer.

 

[s0denone]

I was split between "Yes" and "I can't draw"

Fact is that I've done a few comics, but that doesn't mean I could draw if my life depended on it.

It's the dialogue it's about anyway, not the drawing

Obviously you have never taken a close look at anything written by Alan Moore.

OT: I have tried making a comic. It was for a class and it ended up looking a lot like American Elf.

A comic is great if it has good drawings and good dialogue.

A comic is good if it has bad drawings and good dialogue.

A comic is bad if it has good drawings and bad dialogue.

Wouldn't you agree?

There is more involved to writing that only dialogue. There is pacing, the set-up of the panels, the placement of figures, and the angle of the scene are all decided by the writer.

None of those things require the writer to be a talented drawer.

Please answer my question, instead of moving around it.

 

[sheic99]

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There is more involved to writing than only dialogue. There is pacing, the set-up of the panels, the placement of figures, and the angle of the scene are all decided by the writer.

None of those things require the writer to be a talented drawer.

Please answer my question, instead of moving around it.

I believe I did answer your question. NO, I do not agree it. I don't agree with any part of it. Good dialogue and drawings doesn't mean shit in the story. If the comic is about 8 year old kids and the writer decided to have it look like it's drawn by kids and the dialogue would suck as all the characters are 8. The comic itself then does not mean it is instantly bad.

 

[Hey Joe]

I could hell damn ass write a web comic. Couldn't draw one to save my life though.

I've had huge experience at an amateur level (contradiction in terms, I know) writing sitcoms for university assessment and working on web series for friends. Whenever somebody needed something punched up in uni for them, they'd go to me for some reason. I've also done a bit of stand-up comedy here in Perth. What can I say, I'm just a funny bastard.

FISH-BOY MONKEY!!! ROFL!

Anyhow, whereas I remain quite positive that I could write a web comic (I have about three ideas at any one time floating around the back of my mind) I couldn't draw one to save my life. Nor do I have the expertise (I have recently discovered) to build my own website. The funny thing is though I could totally make a killing on merchandising (how all web comics make money) and things but I don't have the know-how to do so.

Anybody an artist on here looking for a project?

 

[Glerken]

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There is more involved to writing than only dialogue. There is pacing, the set-up of the panels, the placement of figures, and the angle of the scene are all decided by the writer.

None of those things require the writer to be a talented drawer.

Please answer my question, instead of moving around it.

I believe I did answer your question. NO, I do not agree it. I don't agree with any part of it. Good dialogue and drawings doesn't mean shit in the story. If the comic is about 8 year old kids and the writer decided to have it look like it's drawn by kids and the dialogue would suck as all the characters are 8. The comic itself then does not mean it is instantly bad.

No, but it would make it appealing to only eight year olds.

 

[Larenxis]

Anybody an artist on here looking for a project?

Hells yeah I am! And that goes to anyone reading this. Send me a sample of writing and a pitch, and I will be your artist.

I picked the last option, as I figured I earned a 'famous' by having four people rather obsessed with a comic I did. I've also had comics published and sold. I've never done a webcomic but I am aching to make one, I just need a little more initiative.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

Back in around grade 8, a few friends and I made some stick-man comics chock-full of low brow humour, usually involving Dragonball Z fighting of some sort. Good times.

 

[white_salad]

I've done alot of comics, they just suck. Im good at the writing part, and decent at the drawing. Its the demographic I'm aiming at is rather small. By the way, that demographic is me. I've made alot which I ( and maybe 8 or 9 friends) find funny, but thats pretty much it.
I borrowed my cousins wacom tablet for a while and did a serious one. It wasnt bad, but just didnt have a real good feel to it. My local newspaper did a contest allowing normal people to submit one strip of a comic, and they funniest ones were put in the paper. I think I got third. Teddy the midly disgrunteled shrew for the win.

 

[Combined]

I can write. I have written at least 1 or 2 halfway decent comics/graphic novels. I can't draw at all, though... If I could find someone who'd draw, then it'd be ...interesting.

 

[Syndef]

I've been making them since I was four. I drew them on folded plain white paper up until I was about seven, and then I began filling entire 70-page spiral notebooks with them. In fourth grade, I churned out about 20 of those notebooks. I continued to do this up until about the end of middle school, but by the time I hit ninth grade, I started to focus more on quality over quantity and began to get serious about drawing, taking my damn sweet time with everything.
I'm working on releasing a webcomic right now, but I don't plan to release it until I have at least a 10-page buffer zone. I'm having a little trouble with the story at the moment.

 

[The Kind Cannibal]

I've made a successful batch of them that were apparently popular with my schoolmates and our grade. If I ever find the time to translate them and scan them I'll post'em.

 

[The_Deleted]

I have started on may occasioins to get a comic started. But it's not easy doing it alone and there aer reasons why mass produced comics have colourists, editors and inkers. It's a lot of work if you intend to go down the Todd McFarlane route. It's best to keep it simple if it's going to be a series and keep the bright colours for one off stories.

 

[sheic99]

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There is more involved to writing than only dialogue. There is pacing, the set-up of the panels, the placement of figures, and the angle of the scene are all decided by the writer.

None of those things require the writer to be a talented drawer.

Please answer my question, instead of moving around it.

I believe I did answer your question. NO, I do not agree it. I don't agree with any part of it. Good dialogue and drawings doesn't mean shit in the story. If the comic is about 8 year old kids and the writer decided to have it look like it's drawn by kids and the dialogue would suck as all the characters are 8. The comic itself then does not mean it is instantly bad.

No, but it would make it appealing to only eight year olds.

Lynda Barry's comics are like that, and there is a much broader appeal than just 8 year olds. Like I said before, there is more to a comic than dialogue and art to make a comic good.

 

[Raregolddragon]

Yes I have made a webcoimc and I am having a lot of fun doing it. Might not be big or famous but its a nice way to kill time.

Here is a link for anyone that even reads this post. http://nextgenerationheroes.smackjeeves.com/

 

[Zephirius]

Well, I can't draw and I am incredibly lazy, but I voted can't draw because that's the one preventing me from making a comic most, I guess.

 

[Anarchemitis]

[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.74570]

 

[new_age_reject]

Yes... and it really sucked as I have no decent ideas and I can't draw.
I just stick to Marvel/DC

 

[stormcaller]

I did a short series of stickmen dieing in new and unique ways for a cartoon once not 100% if it counts.