Last column I stressed the importance of starting, of making that push and getting the momentum to start your own comic project. If you don’t start, then you’ll never know what’s possible. But, there’s no need to throw caution completely out the window.
For the love of all that’s holy, create a buffer of strips/pages BEFORE you start posting them on the web.
Hey there, seniorita, that’s very astute
Why don’t we get together and call ourselves an institute.
Well, I think that’s sort of how it goes, anyway. I can’t really remember. But what I do remember is that later in that same song – Paul Simon’s "You Can Call Me Al", by the way – somebody walks on down the alleyway with a roly-poly little bat-faced girl.
"So what," you ask, mouth agape and eyes quickly glazing over in the benighted absence of some sort of fast-moving things you can zap with your BFG?
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Spot And The Panda
"Whatever happened to Bryan McNett?"
It's a question experienced webcartoonists ask each other, now and again. It was a question many of them asked their e-mail inboxes as they pounded their desks in frustration.
In one respect the answer is easy: McNett is now a video game developer. He posted to an abortive, eponymous blog in September 2003.
But to the webcomics community, he is as remote as if he had passed to the Great Beyond. Many of today's webcartoonists don't even know who he is. Those webcartoonists who did business with him consider him a failure. Some who knew him had reason to hate him. And because he has never told his side of the story, it's difficult to balance the picture. Yet in his contribution to webcomics history, McNett may be as important as any of his successors, maybe even as important as any of the Five Horsemen. Continue Reading
Online, there are almost no entry barriers to the reporting and punditry market. With the advent of free blogging software, practically anyone can set up a site to report on any subject. Continue Reading
Dylan Meconis and Bill Mudron talk about webcomics… and chocolate.
What is a Comixpedia feature?
It might be easier to explain what it’s NOT.
It’s not an interview, although experts and other relevant people might be consulted and quoted.
Staff Columnist: I Hate You All
(Sept. 2003 – Dec. 2004) Continue Reading
Staff Columnist: Webcomics Are From Uranus. Continue Reading
Staff Columnist: Form Is Function
(Feb. 2004 – Jan. 2005) Continue Reading
Everyone’s got an opinion on whether something’s good or something sucks. Be it literature, movies, steak tartar (tofu tartar if you’re vegetarian), video games, wine, webcomics, or even video games based on a webcomic about wine, someone’s going to give some sort of opinion on it, whether you like it or not.
In a world where personal lucre is limited and so many products and services are pricy luxuries, one cannot just blindly purchase items and hope for the best. Even going to see a movie is an expensive investment, and most people can’t afford to plop a Ten-spot on something they’re going to sleep through.
Enter the Reviewer, a useful time and money saver, the (sometimes self-appointed) voice of the common consumer. Continue Reading
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