How Webcomics Have Changed Your Life

People who've read me

by TCampbell - 07/10/2006 - 18:38

People who've read me already know the answer to this one. Webcomics gave me a voice.

 I think the real question

by Katie Sekelsky - 07/10/2006 - 16:11

 I think the real question for me is... what part of my life *hasn't* been (either directly or indirectly) effected by webcomics. I think about this sorta stuff all the time, so I could probably rattle off a pretty big list, but I won't get into most of it.

 But, to name a few... of course, my art has progressed a lot, and being involved in webcomics has motivated me to continue working on and developing a style. Though, the major effect has probably been more through the people I've met through webcomics' communities. And most of those I can trace back as far as the long-dead collective/community Rocketbox (it was the first comic-related forum/IRC-channel I ever joined, so everything else just sort of sprouted off from there). The people I've met online because of comics have had effects from helping me with my college applications to becoming close personal friends.

 -reva- http://www.thinksynch.com

I used to carry my daily

by scarfman - 07/10/2006 - 11:12

I used to carry my daily cartoons around to social engagements in a blue three-ring binder, and over their coupla-decades career with this distribution system they may have had a couple of hundred regular readers, tops, at one time or another. Now I have several thousand readers a month and counting.

Since I was sixteen, all I ever really wanted was to draw a cartoon every day and have them read by people all over the world.

I now have all I ever really wanted.Â

Paul Gadzikowski, paul@arthurkingoftimeandspace.com

Arthur, King of Time and Space New cartoons daily

My Life...

by moovok - 07/10/2006 - 05:29

Most friends I know online are now either fans of webcomics or webcomic artists themselves (or foreign people from other lands). I started up my own button badge making business over here with webcomic artists in mind. I now have a wall full of webcomic art and I enjoy sitting down and reading the books that people do and collecting rare merchandise from them all. (I've also got an obsession of having me turned into a webcomic character - though whether used I don't mind).

EVERYTHING

by Tim Demeter - 07/10/2006 - 00:10

Since the day T Campbel plucked me out obscurity and brought me to Graphic Smash, webcomics have changed the way I read comics, the way I make comics, where I see comics ten years from now, and the very direction of my career/life. And also like Scott, I find myself more and more eager to see what's next.

Tim Demeter
Reckless Life

While nothing dramatic has

by Scott Story - 07/09/2006 - 22:33

While nothing dramatic has happened to me based on doing a webcomic, it has reinvigorated my love of comics and sequential art. After a decade of doing small press, indy comics for other people, comic that often weren't that widely distributed, I had become sort of burned out on the whole thing.  Doing a Johhny Saturn, co-written with my wife and drawn by me, has been a blessing. I have had so much fun! I also learned how to digitally color and letter. It's made me a better storyteller. I've made a few friends, and lots more people read my online comic than have ever bought the print comics I contributed to.Â

Read Johnny Saturn at http://www.komikwerks.com/comic_title.php?ti=117

I'm still relatively new to

by Molapro Andrew - 07/09/2006 - 21:38

I'm still relatively new to webcomics, so nothing really dramatic has happened so far. But I have made some really good friends, and inspired one of them to start a webcomic of his own. A few days ago he had a job interview, and apparently when answering a lot of the questions, he brought up his website (inspired by moi!). Yesterday he got the job. I figure I'm entitled to about half his pay.

Creating webcomics has led

by bobweiner - 07/09/2006 - 20:25

Creating webcomics has led to several freelance gigs as a cartoonist, including being published on several websites and print publications. It started with landing a gig on C|Net's news.com, which in turn, led to a paid gig with VNUnet's What PC? Mag in the UK for 3 years. Since then, The PC Weenies were in EE Times (a major trade publication for electrical engineers) for over a year (landing me over $20K as a direct result).Â

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by Shishio - 07/09/2006 - 16:58

It's made me poorer.

One-liners - Beware the killer dildos.
New Comic Posted 07/07/06

I'll play. I've always been

by apfurtado - 07/09/2006 - 16:05

I'll play.
I've always been a big fan of Heavy Metal Magazine and the creators that graced its pages; Moebius, Bilal, Corben, Azpiri and Arthur Suydam to just name a few. While others had dreams of drawing Spiderman, It was always a goal of mine to one day be able to share some staples with at least one of these great creators under the Heavy Metal banner.
Fast forward many years later, and I've since become a bit more realistic about my dreams, I began a webcomic called Tween. While rummaging around the Heavy Metal forums and looking to drum-up some hype for my modest webcomic, to my surprise, I had received a response from HM Publisher and main TMNTurtle guy Kevin Eastman. He had checked out my little webcomic and liked what he saw. In turn, he offered me a spot in an issue of Heavy Metal Magazine.
A dream came true when my short story appeared in the same January 2005 issue right along side Arthur Suydam's long overdue return to Heavy Metal Magazine.
As a struggling webcomic creator in this sometimes depressing and frustrating new medium, you may not have the enormous popularity of PVP or Penny Arcade but, you never know who may be out there watching. I guess if there’s any message related to my little story that would be it.

AP Furtado
www.01comics.com