Real World Success!
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Real World Success!
I just saw Starline talking about Game of Thrones with Daniel O'Brien on a Cracked video, and remembered when she hung around here, lo, those many years ago.
Comic Genesis may have been totally abandoned and left to rot, but it served as a pretty potent talent incubator back in the day, so that got me thinking that there surely must be some people out there from CG's past who are doing well for themselves. What are people up to these days? Can the old CG community claim a proud legacy?
Comic Genesis may have been totally abandoned and left to rot, but it served as a pretty potent talent incubator back in the day, so that got me thinking that there surely must be some people out there from CG's past who are doing well for themselves. What are people up to these days? Can the old CG community claim a proud legacy?
"Just because we're amateurs, doesn't mean our comics have to be amateurish." -McDuffies
http://hastilyscribbled.comicgenesis.com
http://hastilyscribbled.comicgenesis.com
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A bunch of CGers went on to actually make something of themselves with comics, or just drawing in general. I know Komiyan's doing well with her new comic Widdershins, K-Dawg rebooted Angry D. Monkey and a bunch of others like Claude, Sin, Kirb, IV, and Bean are doing pretty well for themselves, or so I hear (from e-stalking people through Dawg because I'm a hermit).
And I... am still starting new comics and abandoning them at awkward points.
I will probably continue to do this for my entire life
And I... am still starting new comics and abandoning them at awkward points.
I will probably continue to do this for my entire life
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This is like the webcomic equivalent of listening to music on Vinyl. You might be webcomics first hipster.Pimpette wrote:And I... am still starting new comics and abandoning them at awkward points.
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oh god noIVstudios wrote:This is like the webcomic equivalent of listening to music on Vinyl. You might be webcomics first hipster.Pimpette wrote:And I... am still starting new comics and abandoning them at awkward points.
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While not a big recognized success, I'm working in an animation studio and really loving it.
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What, free publicity never harmed anyone..right?
"Bunnies just aren't dense enough. You'd have to squish them until their little bunny electrons mated with their little bunny protons." -rkolter
What, free publicity never harmed anyone..right?
"Bunnies just aren't dense enough. You'd have to squish them until their little bunny electrons mated with their little bunny protons." -rkolter
Re: Real World Success!
I have a good job in web dev but nobody knows who I am in wider circles, and someone else is now publishing unrelated fantasy novels under my title. Never became a game dev or a vaunted author, never found a new artist after LL got busy, never learned to draw myself, never got enough traffic to justify continuing on.
I use my web dev monies to support better artists' kickstarters at low levels and I pay exactly one Patreon subscription (Goblins).
The Elven novel, no relation.
I use my web dev monies to support better artists' kickstarters at low levels and I pay exactly one Patreon subscription (Goblins).
The Elven novel, no relation.
Re: Real World Success!
I had dreams of changing the world through my artistry, now I mainly shoot food and cars.
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Re: Real World Success!
You shoot cars?Toxic wrote:I had dreams of changing the world through my artistry, now I mainly shoot food and cars.
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Re: Real World Success!
With video cameras. And guns, sometimes.Risky wrote:You shoot cars?Toxic wrote:I had dreams of changing the world through my artistry, now I mainly shoot food and cars.
Make Comic Genesis Keenspace Again!
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Isn't that half of the theme to Atavism?Cope wrote:It's sad when a man's life turns into Grand Theft Auto.
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It was a story about getting nagged by your cousin.
...on a subconscious level, probably.Ideal Comics wrote:Isn't that half of the theme to Atavism?Cope wrote:It's sad when a man's life turns into Grand Theft Auto.
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HA! Still, it is one of my favourite webcomics! I need to read through it again!Cope wrote:...on a subconscious level, probably.Ideal Comics wrote:Isn't that half of the theme to Atavism?Cope wrote:It's sad when a man's life turns into Grand Theft Auto.
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My comic is pretty much where it's always been, so it's not really success, but it's still going.
I got my second doctorate and I'm a pharmacist, does that count as success? Also I have 3 children now and the eldest is probably smarter than anyone else in the family already and she's only 3 and a 1/2. At the very least she's too smart for our own good. I'm calling that one a success.
I got my second doctorate and I'm a pharmacist, does that count as success? Also I have 3 children now and the eldest is probably smarter than anyone else in the family already and she's only 3 and a 1/2. At the very least she's too smart for our own good. I'm calling that one a success.
-D. M. Jeftinija Pharm.D., Ph.D. -- Yes, I've got two doctorates and I'm arrogant about it, what have *you* done with *your* life?
"People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do." "yeah.. but we won't care."
"Legostar's on the first page of the guide. His opinion is worth more than both of yours."--Yeahduff
"People who don't care about anything will never understand the people who do." "yeah.. but we won't care."
"Legostar's on the first page of the guide. His opinion is worth more than both of yours."--Yeahduff
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You've been working for the "Tasty" videos Toxic? Nice!
And Lego, both the family and studies is what I'd call a success. (Plus you know, continuing the whole comic. I'm also continuing even if making pages takes longer but I put a lot more time on them)
And Lego, both the family and studies is what I'd call a success. (Plus you know, continuing the whole comic. I'm also continuing even if making pages takes longer but I put a lot more time on them)
The Volet
What, free publicity never harmed anyone..right?
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What, free publicity never harmed anyone..right?
"Bunnies just aren't dense enough. You'd have to squish them until their little bunny electrons mated with their little bunny protons." -rkolter
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Nobody seems to have mentioned Linkara. My brothers discovered his videos a few years ago, and my reaction was, "Wait, how do you know THAT guy?"
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He's been doing comic reviews on YouTube, a la The Nostalgia Critic.Yeahduff wrote:Why, what's his deal.
http://atopthefourthwall.com/
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From what I know, he worked with the Nostalgia Critics on a few occasions.
The Volet
What, free publicity never harmed anyone..right?
"Bunnies just aren't dense enough. You'd have to squish them until their little bunny electrons mated with their little bunny protons." -rkolter
What, free publicity never harmed anyone..right?
"Bunnies just aren't dense enough. You'd have to squish them until their little bunny electrons mated with their little bunny protons." -rkolter