I've discovered my comic is a rarity, its not anime or about video games.
Name's Mike by the way
[quote:6fb87acf0d="KrazyKrow"]Is it really necessary for every new webcomic artist to take a shot at the established webcomics?
Yes.
Because like science, webcomics improve with every generation. Eventually we'll all be taking turns as the crazy old guy talking about how science back in our day worked in broad strokes.
My comic isn't about anime or video games either! Gosh, I feel like such a sheep...
[quote:ac0d92f54b="Remus10125"]Well since everyone's mentioning their site, why not mine? It's a comic about a temp agency that provides sidekicks to superheroes. It's at www.sidekicks-inc.com.
And Man-Man's a comic about an inept hero with a very reluctant sidekick. Maybe he'll have to rent one out.
I SMELL CROSSOVER!
Seriously. E-mail me.
My comic is definitly not about those things-- but it is about Yirmum.
Jay - you gotta update more often! Sidekicks is funny stuff.
A crossover with Man-Man would be pretty funny actually.
What's manga, and what is a video game?...........
Old people can do webcomics too......
[quote:593c36f750="captain"]What's manga, and what is a video game?...........
Old people can do webcomics too......
That's pretty impressive work there, Captain! :)
Take care,
Jamie
Jamie,
Now I am honored, thank you very much.....and I hope to see Clan up and running again very soon.
Thank you again.......
[quote:f9057f26e1="Liriel"]My webcomic is about video (read: mind) games... no really :).
~Liriel
We believe you, Liriel, honest...
Montanto (shamelessly plugging his own strip which is also strangely devoid of the usual geekery.)
My comic isn't really about any one thing. I haven't mentioned video games or manga in ~15 strips, though, and I probably NEVER WILL!
Mwa ha ha
(the link is in my sig)
My only problem with manga is that I've read so much of it that when I put pencil to paper making my characters, they kinda came out anime/manga looking. At least I never talk about anime or manga in the comic. Or video games. Or computers. Or RPGs. The closest I might come to any of those is by using a pop-culture reference. But, hell, my comic doesn't even include cars or guns, so I'm WAY WAY out of the loop.
It does have swords though. The people have to be able to relate to something violent.
Hey, I just realized my 50th strip is next week. Go me!
[quote:325fc56411="poinko"]Probably not, but you're more likely to get visitors by ruffling feathers and taking jabs than you would by shutting your mouth and doing your thing. :)
This is probably true but, and I may be crazy here, I prefer to not be a dick and keep some shred of dignity. Besides, there are enough people in my day that genuinely piss me off without me going out and finding things to fight about.
Oh, right.... www.asylumantics.com
Captain–
That's some damn good comic-ing. You got yourself another reader
[quote:81d7790075="Montanto"][quote:81d7790075="Liriel"]My webcomic is about video (read: mind) games... no really :).
We believe you, Liriel, honest...
Heheh :lol:
~Liriel
It doesn't bother me that people enjoy making comics about video games, manga or role playing games...
The thing that bugs me about video game/manga/rpg comics are the references authors make to things only gamers will know about.
I try to read them sometimes, to make me give them chances...but I don't understand half the things they say!
Now my brain hurts.
It's like slick Willie said in that webcomics evolve like everything else. We're currently at the end of the present evolution and on the eve of the new one. Everywhere you look, it's either in manga style or about video games or role playing or a three or four panel strip. Even if the strips aren't about the three trendy topics or style, they STILL use the same angle or even worse, take the cop out of copying and pasting every pose except for facial expressions. It's like there's some kind of a law that says switching up angles and drawing SIMPLE ICONIC CHARACTERS TWICE is punishable by death.
The whole scene is drowning itself to the point of saturation. Even worse, we now see webcomics claiming to be "inspired by" by the art or content of *shock* larger webcomics that are established already. It's actually gotten to THAT POINT where in a field that's supposed to be full of originality and sponataneous creativity people are copying others.
In reality, its a de-evolution from a fledgling hobby/industry into junior high kids being mouthy and cruel to people not in their clique just for the sheer viciousness of it.
You're comic is special? Good.
But that doesn't give you rights to try to detract from others' work.
We've got a ways to grow, it seems.
Actually, posting something online means that anybody can see it and furthermore, can say whatever they want about it. If I think something's crap and unoriginal or saturated, I can damn well say whatever I want to about it and since I post about it online, I INVITE people to retort. That's the way it works and this is how I feel.
Hey Michael_Harker.......thanks, I am checking out your site too....thanks for looking in and reading.....
We have TWO comics, one without video games at all (unless you count Oregon Trail), the other with extremely rare, passing mentions.
My site's been video game-free since March, 2005!!! WHOOOO!!!
Um... what was the point again?
Oh, yes, shameless self-promotion at the expense of others. Something I can get behind. :wink:
IMHO, it doesn't matter if a strip is about video games or any other of the genres being done to death right now, it matters if the strip's any good. The trouble is, more people are making strips about video games right now, so percentage-wise more of those strips stink, and it's giving the entire brand a bad name. Soon someone will do a great strip based on, I don't know... hide and seek, and it will "inspire" a horde of bad artists and writers to try and do the same. Then we'll all be here bragging about how our strips are "hide and seek-free".
And yes, I'm aware that people are now thinking about creating a "hide and seek" genre. :idea: :cry:
I guess I'm in the minority of the minority...
I just thought it would be cool to write eight-page stories that were in the vein of THE TWILIGHT ZONE and EC Comics, each one specifically catered to a different artist...
Thenm to maximize the exposure for all involved, I decided to start posting the stories on the web in two-page increments every Thursday, hence completing a new eight-page self-contained story every month.
And hence NightmareWorld.com was born.
It wasn't until well over a year after I started that I realized that there was actually a webcomic "scene" out there... and that it largely referenced video games and manga. :lol:
Hey... at least I had already written and published NIGHTMARE WORLD #14: "The Day I Tried to Live" at that point... :P
Best wishes,
Aaron Weisbrod
I also never planned to create a webcomic. My friends and I started playing a game that yielded hundreds of frames of comics, and other friends were pressuring us to do something with them other than let them sit in a binder somewhere, so I set about putting them on the internet... The whole thing kinda took me by surprise, and I'm still trying to learn how to market and drive traffic to the site... I think it's unfortunate that once you spend the time and effort putting something up that you can't just let it sit in a corner... At least I have difficulty with that...
Also I have no anime, no video games, very little in the way of pop culture references at all... Spiderman makes a "brief" appearance in the comics I'm posting on Monday, on a pair of underoos.... but otherwise, I prefer not to have a comic that draws on the obvious things that have been overused by so many people...
[quote:200e5bb831="brideau"]It doesn't bother me that people enjoy making comics about video games, manga or role playing games...
The thing that bugs me about video game/manga/rpg comics are the references authors make to things only gamers will know about.
I try to read them sometimes, to make me give them chances...but I don't understand half the things they say!
Now my brain hurts.
Totally agreed! There is a whole genre I just don't "get" because I am not really interested in games.
I have one comic with sprites..(I suggest for this thread..you dont visit it..;)
But my graphic novel is video game free and if I keep using protection, it will stay that way..:D
~Julian
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A comic not about video games??
I've discovered my comic is a rarity, its not anime or about video games.
http://www.chrisandsmith.com
Name's Mike by the way
Hey, neither is mine! We should start a cool secret club!
chuckcomics.com
And neither is mine! Can I join too! ;)
http://clanofthecats.com
A very select club indeed! May I join? My comic is not manga, is not about video games... and it doesn't feature a sprite Sonic the Hedgehog as main character!
http://www.futurepig.com
Unfortunately, Man-Man is a sprite manga comic about video games and movies, cunningly disguised.
Damn your eyes!
http://www.man-man.org
Cool...it's good to see variety. Endless repetitions on video games and anime theme in the web comic scene bore me to no end.
-K
My webcomic is about video (read: mind) games... no really :).
~Liriel
If you stick a controller in your ocmputer and look at mine, it's kind of like playing a video game. That doesnt have much color. And doesn't move. And doesn't keep score.
And it's non-interactive.
...yeah.
Is it really necessary for every new webcomic artist to take a shot at the established webcomics?
Probably not, but you're more likely to get visitors by ruffling feathers and taking jabs than you would by shutting your mouth and doing your thing. :)
Wow, Krazykrow, you actually said that very politely and succinctly. Thank you (new webcartoonists are hardly the only people who go out of their way to take jabs and ruffle feathers!) And you raise a valid point.
On the other hand, saying "why is there so much crap that's all the same out there" isn't JUST about "established" comics. It really is hard to find something that's not about video games or anime. Some people really want to find something else.
Mainly because those are the two biggest influences among the majority of people who create a new webcomic. It doesn't hurt that two of the biggest webcomics are based on those very things(Penny Arcade and MegaTokyo).
Original comics aren't very rare, they're just hard to find among the manga and video game comics. And manga about video games. And sprite comics about manga. And so on.
Well since everyone's mentioning their site, why not mine? It's a comic about a temp agency that provides sidekicks to superheroes. It's at www.sidekicks-inc.com.
Check out archives if you can.
Thanks.
[quote:c67621da52="KrazyKrow"]Is it really necessary for every new webcomic artist to take a shot at the established webcomics?
TRADITION!