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Casey & Scotty
Submitted by Delos on November 4, 2008 - 10:00
What Did I Learn?
webcomic reviews by Delos Woodruff
(this is a repost that has been added to.)
How do I summarize what I like about Casey and Scotty by Scott and Casey Tapp? Taking my cue from the diamond marketers, I’ll harp on Consistency, Clarity and Color.
I’ll start with Casey and Scotty’s Consistency. That’s a good thing [...]
Station V3
Submitted by Delos on November 3, 2008 - 09:00
What Did I Learn?
weekly webcomic reviews by Delos
(this is a repost)
This review is on Station V3 by Tom Truszkowski. First of all, this comic has been going since early May 2003 updating every day with only a few lapses and some guest comics. That by itself is noteworthy and it seems a very difficult thing [...]
Strip News
Submitted by Delos on October 31, 2008 - 09:00
- There was a discussion thread on TWCL that asked what they biggest challenges are for those comic artists who are looking to go pro or semi pro. One major point is the audience pool. Some believe that the online comic audience is limited and comics are just trading readers. Others said that there are a limited number of successful kinds of comics which make it harder to get noticed. I think that the attention of people is hard to capture. We forget that once upon a time comics were only found in the newspaper and in comic books. There is nothing that serves to focus the attention of the reader pool. At best, we have Google which serves up a billion choices and then points us toward what other people find interesting. But people primarily care about what grabs them and so it follows that our comics will appeal to people who like what we like. It’s not about audience size or getting audience attention so much as connecting to people like us. That’s the attention focus that Google can’t provide us.
- There are, however, some things to learn by looking at the examples of other artists who have made comics. Skitzo Man has a list of things to avoid and here’s a list of things to do courtesy of the Webcomic Beacon. Ming has some good lessons for us all on Ming’s Secret Blog, too. Then there’s a handy summary of Scott Adam’s rules of humor in an article that talks about how one comic found its audience.
Enker’s Tale
Submitted by Delos on October 29, 2008 - 10:00
What Did I Learn?
weekly webcomic reviews by Delos Woodruff
(This is a reformatted repost of an older review.)
To get some understanding of what was going on, I checked out the background of the comic thus far… “Sigma has been defeated, and in the aftermath Zero has gone into stasis until such time as his connection to [...]
Ordinary Things
Submitted by Delos on October 26, 2008 - 10:00
What Did I Learn?
weekly webcomic reviews by Delos
This review is on Ordinary Things by Ozge Samanci. It has the tag line “an online journal of my observations in the comics form.”
This is not your standard comic, nor is it even a diary comic. Even the about page is not run of the mill. I’ve included [...]
Comic Fencing - where reviewers duel it out.
Submitted by Delos on April 30, 2008 - 20:38
There's a new site offering weekly webcomic reviews -- Comic Fencing. Every week, a single comic will be reviewed and rated by multiple reviewers all dueling it out to create the best review. You'll be able to offer up your comments and even rate the reviewers. It's going to be fun and we'd like you to stop by and join in.
This week's review is on We The Robots and the reviews will be posted Friday morning.
