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I basically like this, and I like how you draw all of the characters (esp. Voodoo Doll--are you an Egon Schiele fan yet at all? You are fated to eventually be an Egon Schiele fan). My one critique is that the comic is fairly slow-paced--the characters are all pretty well-defined and the tension is t...

As of this Monday, I've started a new long-term arc in The Man Who Hates Fun (the last arc, defined retroactively as an arc, ran from strip #3 all the way to #169 last Friday.) I mention this for three reasons: (1) The format of the strip has changed from four rigid, blissfully mechanical panels eve...

Monday's strip:



I really just like the Dagwood sandwich!

Crap--I hope this isn't too late, but can my entry on the TOC say "John Thornton" instead of "Glambourine"? If it's too late, no biggie

cortland wrote:

rkolter wrote:We don't have nearly $2000 though Cortland. :(

We have more than a week left, though. Let's see what we can do!

After I get paid on Monday I can kick in anywhere from $50-100. It's somethin'

Someone asked me this while I was inking some strips this morning, and I realized that it is a really good question that doesn't get asked a lot. So I'll ask it: why did you first get into comics, and what made you decide that you wanted to spend really long hours working on comics? For me: I got "T...

Work, though I at least put pencils up.

Re scripting advice: Start with one or two of your strongest characters and just make it up as you go. Once you get a better sense of who they are and what their world is, see if you can expand to longer stories. Often when I start reading a new webcomic, I read the first five or six strips and then...

I had a two week buffer once. It lasted exactly two weeks.

Here's a panel from my layouts for Monday's strip, anyway:

... all my storyboards look like this: (image) Some days I feel they are more expressive than the actual finished comic. =/ Hey, my storyboards look almost exactly like that (down to the hastily-written text below the layouts), and I usually think they're more expressive than the actual finished co...

I used to use almost your exact setup, actually: Hunt 108 pen, Bristol board (14 x 11, though.) So my advice: (1) Stop watering down your ink--that's what's causing the bleeding onto the paper. A better ink will help: Bombay Black is the absolute best dip pen ink I've ever used, but it's really hard...

Girls are actually easier, I think, because you can exaggerate the curves and get away with murder. I also kind of agree with Robert Crumb in the documentary "Crumb"--he's working on a drawing, and talks about how he spends a long time trying to get the female figure looking exactly how he wants it,...

The art isn't great, but it could work with good writing. The writing needs serious help. I don't like everything Scott McCloud does, but check out his new book, "Making Comics". It deals with a lot of storytelling issues, like the importance of backgrounds, clarity, pacing, and text to image balanc...

The main character in my strip was originally mean-spirited self-satire, though I don't think I'm as much like him these days. I'm still figuring out what makes him tick, actually. Elvira and Noam are easier, since Elvira is pretty much based on my teenage emotional life and Noam is just a wide-eyed...

Pretty awesome art; gets better as it goes along. I think the story could be done more clearly--visually it's pretty clear, but the Bible verses taken from all over the New Testament don't mesh all that smoothly at times. Also: why did you blur the temptress's body? Just to keep the gender ambiguity...

The art is awesome. As for the writing, it kind of failed to keep my interest. I like the long descriptive paragraphs that you get into more near the end of the comic, and I like how they take place outside of the "frame"--it's a weird approach to storytelling that I don't see a lot, and with art li...

There actually is a language called Gothic! It has its own alphabet and everything

spqrblues wrote:I don't know if it's ugly, but it's pretty damned smart.

Now I don't have to worry about buying the "cheap" gasoline.

Yeah--I've been secretly terrified about that for years, actually

I like Sanford DESIGN pencils (the green ones), either 2B or HB. 2H and up are way too light, while anything below 2B is really, really hard to erase when you're doing your inks. If you're planning to digital ink, then go for a 4B or something; why not?

I never really got anything too negative... ...although less than positive comments do hurt for a bit, but I usually try to turn them into something constructive. They don't bother me too much. I agree, and I'll take it a step further: I actually like my negative criticism more than my positive cri...