Webcomic creator stereotypes...POLL!

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:50 am

mcDuffies wrote:Pfh! I'll be dead and burried in ground before I reckognize housewives as full employment!

Likely killed and buried by an angry housewife.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:03 am

In a sleep-deprived fit (shortly after the birth of my son), I wrote an essay on parenthood that touched on how some of the names for the involved states were likely given by a housewife who'd gone mad due to her children. I thought it was hilarious as I was writing it, but I've been afraid to revisit it since.

Kemmy · Post by **Kemmy** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:04 am

Unmarried, finishing up grad school, working various small jobs at various universities. Forced to pick the "college" option. Ah well.

Before I started making webcomics...I dunno. I don't think I had any fixed idea of what a webtoonist was.

*Gets some popcorn and watches the housewives go after mcDuffies*

Tarts · Post by **Tarts** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:45 am

I'm struggling just to pass freaking algebra... that should be an option you know.

Fabio Ciccone · Post by **Fabio Ciccone** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:13 am

Boyfriend and working.

Trust me, it ain' easy to tell my girlfriend "hey, I won't see you today 'cause I have to draw"... but hey, I have nothing to complain, she's my greatest supporter!

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:21 am

Fabio Ciccone wrote:Boyfriend and working.

Trust me, it ain' easy to tell my girlfriend "hey, I won't see you today 'cause I have to draw"... but hey, I have nothing to complain, she's my greatest supporter!

see that's what's great about my comic and my girlfriend.

"honey, i need to work on comics today"

"okay, can i play with legos too?"

"okay"

Dave Against The Machine · Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:04 am

Working, college, and unmarried. I thought we all had no girlfriends and all that geeky stuff. Well, I guess I am farther from the crowd that I thought.

Tarts wrote:I'm struggling just to pass freaking algebra... that should be an option you know.

Dont even talk about algebra! I just killed myself on a test.

Now my brain hurt to thinking, what the hell happened?

RobertBlake · Post by **RobertBlake** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:08 am

Single out of work and school bum that lives with his parents.

But since that wasn't on the poll, I went with "unemployed, not in school". I'm a freelancer, but I don't work with a regular enough frequency to consider it a job.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:39 am

legostargalactica wrote:
Fabio Ciccone wrote:Boyfriend and working.

Trust me, it ain' easy to tell my girlfriend "hey, I won't see you today 'cause I have to draw"... but hey, I have nothing to complain, she's my greatest supporter!
see that's what's great about my comic and my girlfriend.

"honey, i need to work on comics today"

"okay, can i play with legos too?"

"okay"

Beth's taken to randomly handing me paper and scriptos and saying "Draw me something!"

It's working, though.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:45 am

rkolter wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:
Fabio Ciccone wrote:Boyfriend and working.

Trust me, it ain' easy to tell my girlfriend "hey, I won't see you today 'cause I have to draw"... but hey, I have nothing to complain, she's my greatest supporter!
see that's what's great about my comic and my girlfriend.

"honey, i need to work on comics today"

"okay, can i play with legos too?"

"okay"
Beth's taken to randomly handing me paper and scriptos and saying "Draw me something!"

It's working, though.

if you recall that city block i took pictures of in the doodle thread, the inside of a clothing store I let amanda design in the image of where she works right now, she did a great job.

Fabio Ciccone · Post by **Fabio Ciccone** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:50 am

rkolter wrote:
Beth's taken to randomly handing me paper and scriptos and saying "Draw me something!"

It's working, though.

Lívia is in the "draw ME" phase...

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:02 am

legostargalactica wrote:
rkolter wrote:
legostargalactica wrote: see that's what's great about my comic and my girlfriend.

"honey, i need to work on comics today"

"okay, can i play with legos too?"

"okay"
Beth's taken to randomly handing me paper and scriptos and saying "Draw me something!"

It's working, though.
if you recall that city block i took pictures of in the doodle thread, the inside of a clothing store I let amanda design in the image of where she works right now, she did a great job.

My gf and comics...

She's like a kid just learning to swim. She isn't even sure what to look for in comics. She's made all her friends ask me to draw for them though. I occasionally joke about teaching her to colour my comics, but it's more likely that I will be teaching her guitar instead.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:05 am

mcDuffies wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:
rkolter wrote: Beth's taken to randomly handing me paper and scriptos and saying "Draw me something!"

It's working, though.
if you recall that city block i took pictures of in the doodle thread, the inside of a clothing store I let amanda design in the image of where she works right now, she did a great job.
My gf and comics... She's like a kid just learning to swim. She isn't even sure what to look for in comics. She's made all her friends ask me to draw for them though. I occasionally joke about teaching her to colour my comics, but it's more likely that I will be teaching her guitar instead.

I had keff recommend a manga for amanda to buy at CN expo, she bought one and enjoyed it.

also we spent much of the con looking around for a fairly cheap but cool looking batman comic so that she could buy it and frame it.

Alschroeder · Post by **Alschroeder** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:43 am

I'm 53, one kid in college, one in high school, and have been happily married since 1980, and gainfully employed. I don't think I'm the stereotypical webcomic creator-although I very well might be a stereotypical nerd.---Al

Kirb · Post by **Kirb** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:06 am

in college, unmarried, not working.

Go go full time student.

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:19 pm

yeahduff wrote:
mcDuffies wrote:Pfh! I'll be dead and burried in ground before I reckognize housewives as full employment!
Likely killed and buried by an angry housewife.

He he he!

NakedElf · Post by **NakedElf** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:43 pm

All right, I clicked 'married and employed' or whatever. Just remember that when I started I was 'married and college'.

I think we're going to get a lot more older people around here simply because of the demographic factors which draw people to this forum--we're mostly CGers, and CG actually does take a certain amount of knowledge and know-how to figure out--the HTML and so on, which is going to make it tough for younger artists to join. You'd probably find them using a simpler interface, such as posting their comics on Deviant Art, or Drunk Duck, or LJ... There are tons of people who make comics using their Gaia Online avatars, for example, and only post them on Gaia message boards, and I guarantee you that group is a lot younger.

Also, we tend to be more dedicated comicers--that is, we're kind of a self-selected bunch. There are tons of people who start a comic, write a few strips, and then abandon it. The kind of dedication it takes to stick with a project over the course of several years generally takes a bit of maturity, and after several years, you're generally older.

And we get together and like to talk about our comics--also indicating that we're a somewhat dedicated, thinking-about-things crowd, which tends to correlate with maturity.

JTorch · Post by **JTorch** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:00 pm

NakedElf wrote:...and after several years, you're generally older.

I know you probably meant in terms of maturity or skill or dedication, but that line still made me laugh.

Datachasers · Post by **Datachasers** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:21 pm

its a tool to keep from doing nothing and
i make mine for fun and has a hobby -

that and i enjoy playing with Daz Studio -

and i just decided i had a lot of interesting looking stuff so i decided to create a story to go with the images

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:27 pm

datachasers wrote:its a tool to keep from doing nothing and
i make mine for fun and has a hobby -

that and i enjoy playing with Daz Studio -

and i just decided i had a lot of interesting looking stuff so i decided to create a story to go with the images

...wha?

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