Are you 'married' to your own webcomic?

The Mortician · Post by **The Mortician** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:05 am

Tystarr has the right idea.

A Webcomic is your child. Sometimes a bastard or love child at that. If he or she doesn't grow up as you expected them too, you disown them, and they forever go forth into the world, leaving a trail of shame pointed back to you.

Steverules · Post by **Steverules** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:59 pm

Jim North wrote:
Steverules wrote:Steve Who?
Oh noes, it's that Steve guy!

With the writers strike and no tv I'm bored. And when I'm bored I go to the nearest forum and start drawing. KeenTV AllStar season perhaps?

You could sum up my artistic drive as such. Given the choice to create the next Garfield a strip with no substance but tons of cash or the next Calvin and Hobbes a strip with heart created with love I'd go the Garfield route. I put more value in money than art which is sad but it's also why I don't really care about drawing/writing. I do envy a bit those who have the passion. I had it years ago but it's gone. I go through spurts (a week or two every few months) but the daily thing is long dead for me.

Orinocou · Post by **Orinocou** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:35 pm

I'm also going to say that my comic is like my child. I spend a great deal of time worrying over it and rubbing dirt off its cheek.

I guess I can't use my comic as a means for working out my personal problems because the plot is already worked out for me.

Though, you know what? This weekend, after a stressful day at work, I realized what I want to do in life: I want to make a living through my art, get published, and own a small plot of land where I can raise chickens.

Bustertheclown · Post by **Bustertheclown** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:22 pm

orinocou wrote: Though, you know what? This weekend, after a stressful day at work, I realized what I want to do in life: I want to make a living through my art, get published, and own a small plot of land where I can raise chickens.

You and I have that in common. That's really all I want in life. Minus the chickens, because, speaking from experience as a country hayseed, I can tell you that chickens are foul fowl, and it's barely worth the trade-off of getting fresh eggs for keeping them alive.

Pigs, though, man, nothing beats bacon you've grown yourself!

Mondegreen · Post by **Mondegreen** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:38 pm

My comics are one night stands.

Noemz · Post by **Noemz** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:10 am

My comic is like a spoiled only child that regularly drives me up the wall, but I want to see her through school and college and out of my freakin' house and into an apartment of her own. I won't be happy until the comic has run its course.

Damn it. By the time I'm done, Zeera will be putting me in a retirement home. One of those cheap nasty ones. Right, that's it, I'm writing her out of the will.

How old is a six-year-old web comic in people years, anyway?

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:25 am

Probably about 120.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:15 am

While I'm very much attached to comic making in general (not to one particular comic) I wouldn't describe it as a marriage deal. It's more of an obsession, in-born addiction, life neccesity or psycho therapy, or some combination of all those.
I also never have sex with my comic

with others, maybe. if they're drawn good enough

Orinocou · Post by **Orinocou** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:16 pm

bustertheclown wrote:
orinocou wrote: Though, you know what? This weekend, after a stressful day at work, I realized what I want to do in life: I want to make a living through my art, get published, and own a small plot of land where I can raise chickens.
You and I have that in common. That's really all I want in life. Minus the chickens, because, speaking from experience as a country hayseed, I can tell you that chickens are foul fowl, and it's barely worth the trade-off of getting fresh eggs for keeping them alive.

Pigs, though, man, nothing beats bacon you've grown yourself!

Yeah, it's a good feeling when you finally decide that *this* is what you want to do in life. And if you ever figure out how to get published, man, let me know! LOL

And what's this I hear about raising chickens for fresh eggs? You don't let them stay under the hen till they hatch?

.... I wanna be a country hayseed.

RobertBlake · Post by **RobertBlake** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:58 pm

My comic and I have a love/hate relationship.

Sometimes I absolutely love working on it, other times I don't want anything to do with it or want to work on something else. But yet, every time I try to quit working on it, sooner or later I come back to it.