Your comic and your life

[Taiwanimation]

here's an idea for a product: voodoo comic paper!

[Dracomax]

Well, my main character was based upon me, but is wholly seperate rom me. I'm planning on doing some really evil things to him.

Other than that, and some experiences from real life, No. nobody and nothing real. mostly to keep people from annoying me in real life.

[JTorch]

I had the dialogue from one of my comics show up in real life. My mom's cat attacked a small rabbit in front of us, and my brother's girlfriend was standing over it as it was writhing on the ground after being mauled.

Her: "I think it's still alive... it's still moving."
Me: "That's it's leg twitching."

Sort of like in this comic:
http://tacomf.comicgenesis.com/d/20060712.html

(The rabbit was, in fact, dead by this point. It's buried in my backyard with a couple of mice that the cat killed as well.)

[Taiwanimation]

hmm it seems like there's a lot of art imitating life and people like it, but get creeped out when life imitates art.

anyone ever draw a comic, and say, hmm, that'd be nice if my life was like that, and try to figure out how to get there?

[Jen_Babcock]

I had the dialogue from one of my comics show up in real life. My mom's cat attacked a small rabbit in front of us, and my brother's girlfriend was standing over it as it was writhing on the ground after being mauled.

Her: "I think it's still alive... it's still moving."
Me: "That's it's leg twitching."

Sort of like in this comic:
http://tacomf.comicgenesis.com/d/20060712.html

(The rabbit was, in fact, dead by this point. It's buried in my backyard with a couple of mice that the cat killed as well.)

This story makes me sad.

Because I LOVE rabbits.

RIP little bun.

EDIT: Very funny comic though!

[Hallonpress]

This forum moves so fast, that by the time I get to post in a thread, everything has already been said.

I've never found my life interesting enough to make a comic about. Which could be a problem in a country where crappy-looking autobiographies is what gets published, if anything. And manga (real manga).

Though I have used my own feelings as a base for what characters are feeling. Maybe not in WBK, since we're two people making it, but in my <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ ... ">previous project</a> (which has never really left the ground), that's what I did. I felt really sad when I started out, so it turned out like a kind of self-therapy for me. Even though it's kind of abandoned by now, it has served its purpose, I guess.

Did anyone else do that?

[Glambourine]

I am often asked by friends and readers (mainly friends) if I ever incorporate events from my life into my comic. Sometimes I do, sometimes events are completely fictional, and other times, I'll make up something in the comic only to have it become a reality later.

This issue of having the events in my comic materialize themselves in my life really creeps me out. This happen to anyone else often?

Yeah! I've only consciously included real life stuff <a href="http://mwhf.comicgenesis.com/d/20050408.html">once</a> (because a friend of mine did this and it really bothered me), but real events--or weird, shadowy versions of real events--crop up often enough to be disturbing. I was a school teacher at the same time as the MWHF was; I was working on a novel at the same time as the MWHF was working most openly on his big Stoicism book; and whenever the characters start worrying about money obsessively, it probably means that I've just quit/lost a job. I never actually plan for this stuff, which makes it weirder. If everyone knew how weirdly revealing comix/art can be, it's my profound conviction that no one would ever do anything ever.

[Glambourine]

Though I have used my own feelings as a base for what characters are feeling. Maybe not in WBK, since we're two people making it, but in my <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/ ... ">previous project</a> (which has never really left the ground), that's what I did. I felt really sad when I started out, so it turned out like a kind of self-therapy for me. Even though it's kind of abandoned by now, it has served its purpose, I guess.

Did anyone else do that?

Yeah, again--the name "Man Who Hates Fun" was originally applied to me on a car trip to South Padre Island, after I couldn't shut up about how much I despised the bad, sentimental hip-hop that was rockin' the iPod at the time. Usually anything Elvira says is me with all of my will to survive and thrive stripped away, and anything the MWHF says is me with all charity, sympathy, or willingness to relate to people left in the dirt.

Does it feel kind of like cheating to you too? It does to me, but it's addictive to parody yourself and your emotions, see.

(Incidentally: sorry about the double-post, but yes this forum does move fast--by the time I read this and got all excited about replying to it, I'd already posted. I hope we can all get past this and be pals again.)

[Paul Escobar]

I've yet to make a comic based on my own life. As for life imitating comics, two weeks ago I pencilled a comic containing this panel:



The very next day I took a nasty fall and injured my back.
(The character is falling from the 40th floor of a high rise, while I only fell from the roof of a bicycle shed, but still...)

Since most of my comics feature copious amounts of physical violence and/or psychological trauma, this better be a coincidence! If not... OH SHIT.

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

Wow, are you alright, Paul?

[Paul Escobar]

Yeah, no permanent damage done, and it's healing nicely. By now, it only hurts when I move... (It seems painkillers only lessen rather than kill pain when the hurt is to the spine)

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

Be careful, painkillers only mask pain. Take it easy.

Nice panel by the way.

[Perk_daddy]

I'll sometimes use little experiences from my family/friends like the boullion cube incident that aren't necessary to the plot, but just help in the ways of humor and characterization. It's sort of a shout-out to my friends and family but doesn't fall so far into the "inside joke" category that nobody else gets it.

[Dark Spider]

Some parts of my comic are based on my real life. The character Dark Spider is ostensibly based on myself, and I injected my personality quirks and insecurities into him (they're not apparent now, but they will be later on in the comic). I suppose the character Neoma could be loosely based on my ex, but she wasn't supposed to turn out like that.

I also did an interesting psycho-analysis on the nieces on my comic, and when compared to myself, the results were shocking. It seems each niece takes a specific personality trait from me and makes it their dominant personality:

-Winter shares my intelligence, pursuit of learning, and her love of books.

-Spring and I both have very a destructive behavior when we're bored.

-Summer represents my fantasy of actually being able to fit in with people and be popular....but she also has my insecurity of being totally alone.

-Autumn shares my artistic pursuits and my naive ideals and views about morality and the world.

None of that was planned at all, but I seemed to subconsciously take bits of me and inject them into the characters when I was fleshing them out.

I do periodically directly take stuff from my real life and put it into my comic. I did a parody comic recently on a rapist that was actually praised with saving the life of a child he admitted to raping. Last year's storyline "The Chatterbox Technique" is based on this movie called "Chatterbox" about a woman and her talking vagina. My first storyline "The Disasterous Date" is based on my own frustrations about my old relationship.

[Princess]

I have nothing in common with those little bastards whatsoever

[McDuffies]

(Incidentally: sorry about the double-post, but yes this forum does move fast--by the time I read this and got all excited about replying to it, I'd already posted. I hope we can all get past this and be pals again.)

This forum is so fast, you post faster than you type!

Yeah, no permanent damage done, and it's healing nicely. By now, it only hurts when I move...

We better not make you laugh, eh?

[Laemkral]

90% of what happens in the comic happened in real life.

[Paul Escobar]

Yeah, no permanent damage done, and it's healing nicely. By now, it only hurts when I move...

We better not make you laugh, eh?

He he he he he OW!

[Glambourine]

(Incidentally: sorry about the double-post, but yes this forum does move fast--by the time I read this and got all excited about replying to it, I'd already posted. I hope we can all get past this and be pals again.)

This forum is so fast, you post faster than you type! :P

In Soviet Russia, forum posts you!

[Taiwanimation]

90% of what happens in the comic happened in real life.

and the other 10% is a cover-up!