How serious are you?

Perk_daddy · Post by **Perk_daddy** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:24 pm

bustertheclown wrote:
K-Dawg wrote:
supernerdcore wrote:2008 is going to be the year of SFF
No way man! 2008 is going to be "the year of D. Monkey"
I'm gunning for 2016. Dibs!

I call 2012. Either I'll finally be done with my first story by then or the world will end. Either one will be memorable for me.

Redtech · Post by **Redtech** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:49 pm

Well at least my future career in haunting places will be guarunteed.

IronSpike · Post by **IronSpike** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:12 am

Blackhole wrote:Do you feel like this community is creatively liberating? Or do you feel pressured to make your comics fit into category A, B, or C just to get any readers or respect?

Are you happy just to have an opportunity to share your creativity with people,.. or do you have a battleplan for webcomic domination? (nothing wrong with either of those, by the way.)

C'mon, lets sit in a circle and pass around the bongos and talk about it. Lay it all out on the table. Make some smores.

- Sure, it's 'creatively liberating' in the sense that I do a comic that no publisher would ever dream of taking a chance on, and yet it managed to find an audience, it's been running for two and half years and 250 pages, and I get a lot of satisfaction out of doing it.

- And I've never been content with my readership. I've never been one of those "Oh, I'm just happy to do it, I don't care if anybody reads it" people. I advertise like crazy.

Pattyannboyd · Post by **Pattyannboyd** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:05 am

I like just getting people to read my comic. I don't see myself making any kind of living or real future on this specific story, but I feel it's a good way to develop a fanbase who may follow me on future endeavors.

Dallawalla · Post by **Dallawalla** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:39 pm

My comic is the first thing I have really stuck with. Its been 6 months now, I have over 200.... 30-40 that I believe to be good enough... which makes 160 that I can adapt to quality or I can keep writing new ones. I plan to put it on the net this month.. I dont expect money from it but deep down i would like people to read it... I think there must be people out there who think like me and may find my type of humour to their liking.

Yes i take it seriously but I really want it to be loose and creative and infinite like a originally planned it to be.

Jen_Babcock · Post by **Jen_Babcock** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:53 pm

I guess I'm serious in that I've drawn my comic every day for the past 4-5 years. Over 1400 comics.

phew!

Levi-chan · Post by **Levi-chan** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:33 am

VRY SRS

VRY VRY SRS

Alschroeder · Post by **Alschroeder** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:43 am

I'm serious about my comic but having fun doing it at the same time.---Al

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:33 pm

I are serious artist.
This are serious comment.

Hisinvisiblefriend · Post by **Hisinvisiblefriend** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:31 am

Serious? heck, I'm only just beginning. I really have little idea what I'm doing... But I'm learning, and I suppose that's what's truly important. I have no aspirations of joining the ranks of the comic greats with readership in the millions. ...I'm perfectly happy if the work I do entertains my family and no one else.

As for the community here... well, this is my first forum post. I only this week moved to CG, so we'll see how well an art major who can't draw will fit in here

...did someone say smores?

C.w. · Post by **C.w.** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:18 am

I take my project seriously enough that up until yesterday i had never missed a scheduled update (that wasn't a server issue or something), but i'm beginning to realise i actually need to take things less seriously.

Even though i know i have about eight readers, i tend to want to provide them with something that's worth reading. The problem is that i spend way more time writing than drawing, when the reverse should be true, since the whole point of me having a comic is to force me to draw and finish something once a week. If i could write it wouldn't be such a probelm, but i'm probably the slowest writer in the world. It has literally taken me a 45 minutes to write this comment.

I should get a writer, but to be quite frank, looking for a writer is depressing.

Dallawalla · Post by **Dallawalla** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:19 pm

Ive been getting very excited since i started reading these forums intensely.

Seriousness has gone up but enthusiasm has skyrocketed... And Enthusiasm carries alot of weight. Alot. Shitloads.

So there you have it.
Im excited.

Really.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:46 am

I'd like to make a job of this...I can't say I have stacks of blueprints plotting my climb to the top or anything though.

Drugsmugglingcartoonist · Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:26 pm

Am serious in the sense I now draw it everyday for at least 4-5 hours and am now wanting to have people be reading it, but not yet serious enough to advertise it, that would be going to far for me. I dream of it being found, so I'm both deluded and serious.

Picatrix · Post by **Picatrix** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:32 am

I don't feel the pressure to fit into any sort of catagory... I just took a good look at the type of comics that I best like to read and developed my own style around it. I figure, if I like it, others out there probably will too

I'm one of those people with a battle plan... I would like to create comics professionally one day so I'm using my comic to help me develop my skills to achieve that goal. Until then, I'm trying to throw myself into comicing 100%, I'm advertising like crazy and am really working to get myself out there and get at least a little bit of name recognition.

Blackhole · Post by **Blackhole** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:18 am

I'm not serious at all anymore. When I first started making comics when I was 9 or 10 it was all about creating adventures and worlds to escape into. Then when I hit puberty and the comic book business was booming, I saw that a person could live off of a job in comics and maybe even have a fan following,.. so I was hell-bent on learning all the tricks of the trade.

But I became so obsessed with just improving my art and writing that I wasn't really having fun anymore. I was using all the "pro" tools of a comic book artist (11x 17 bristol art boards, bottles of india ink, brushes and dip pens, technical pens.) and when I created characters and plots I was always thinking about how it would appeal or sell to comic buyers. I used to do those stupid plot graphs.

But then I ended up going for about two or three years not being creative and finally realised that I'm happiest when making comics, but I've gotta get back to the "roots" instead of being so focused on the technical side of it. I've got to stop thinking about what people may think about my ideas and just do stuff for me. I no longer have the delusion of living off of comics.

Thus,.. at present I am the opposite of what I once was. Not serious at all. I don't bother with any "pro" tools. I don't think about what readers may think about anything I do. I don't have a webcomic here yet,.. but I'd like to. I just can't decide on a single "series" to work on.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:39 am

The kind of things I used to read shaped my comic interests: french school, underground comics, postmodern literature, films... when I started doing webcomics, I was in, I think, pretty much predictable waters for a webcomic, but that was not because I was trying to pander to some audience, but rather because at that time I was very interested in newly found webcomics and thought that their stereotypes and genres were fresh. Since then I've returned to a kind of things that I've been doing before, they aren't exactly the average Keenspot-kind of comics, but I see people doing similar things here and there and getting away with it, so I don't feel like an island or something.

Anubicdarque · Post by **Anubicdarque** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:18 am

How serious? hmmmm its been running a couple years now, I have put money into it (better hardware etc) but I have fun. My joke about it is that its taken over my life and Jinni will bash my head in with a wooden Mallet if I don't put a comic out on time...
Fortunately for my head.... I have a small buffer.....

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:35 am

Anubicdarque wrote:How serious? hmmmm its been running a couple years now, I have put money into it (better hardware etc) but I have fun. My joke about it is that its taken over my life and Jinni will bash my head in with a wooden Mallet if I don't put a comic out on time...
Fortunately for my head.... I have a small buffer.....

Welcome to ComicGenesis!

What you have done is called Thread Necromancy, and it's frowned upon. This thread hadn't been commented on in nine months. There was no need to bring it to the top of the forum.

Wendybird · Post by **Wendybird** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:50 am

Hmm, resurrected thread...

I'm glad it came back up, though, because I joined soon after it stopped and it's really interesting.

I love this community. I actually feel like they've been driving me away from the standard epic fantasy which my story could become. I've gotten encouragement about its unique flavor and the way the humor integrates into the larger story. There is a large amount of popular epic fantasy comics, but that doesn't mean someone who sticks within that genre will find it easier to gain popularity. I've always liked to stand just a little ways away from the box. I'd say this community makes it easier.

As to seriousness, I suppose I'm in a unique position. This is what I do. I sit around and draw comics all day. I'd like to be drawing comics or writing novels all my life, and at the moment novels aren't working out. However, I don't need to make money from my comics. I'm satisfied just to have people read and enjoy them. So maybe I don't push myself as much as someone else would, but I really enjoy having the leisure to take a break when it stops being fun.

I am serious about regular updates and buffer, and I am serious about bringing this story to its conclusion. I would eventually like to make a profit, less for the extra cash and more for the confirmation that people like what I'm doing and I've impacted them with the story.

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