Comic Completion Month

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:01 pm

Unless you're a gaming comic, it takes time to start making money off your strip.

But I'm hoping putting up with extra school will land me a job I won't hate enough to hydrate people over.

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:04 pm

Drop it to 30 a month and I could see myself devoting a summer month to this... but 60? No way.

Sincerely · Post by **Sincerely** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:08 pm

Well, I think I'm being realistic if I hope for a hundred or two per month in, say, another half year? A year, maybe? Obviously, I have to start developing a method by which to actually entice money out of people before I can start earning money. That's a good first step. Let's work on that. *does a little dance, puts a hat out for donations*

My ultimate goal in life is to write novels (and now continue with this comic thing), so I'm just sitting on a goldmine in crazy town.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:28 pm

That's my goal as well. But it's a long road. My idea right now is to work in a publishing company, climb the ranks, and eventually publish my books through there.

Gengar: It has to be March and 60 comics or else you have to make your own event.

Bustertheclown · Post by **Bustertheclown** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:56 pm

Smight wrote:Just a reminder for anyone still thinking about doing this or who forgot, January is the official 60 storyboard creation month and february is the official 60 page spellcheck month(It's that important!). If you skip these months busters challenge will be the end of you.

GAH! What?! When the? What the? WHAT?!

Man, do I SUCK! I've been embroiled in kinda a bit of a HUGE GIGANTIC life-changing artistic whatsit moment currently, so I've let the January aspect of this whole thing slip right past.

Also, I'm going to be definitely dropping the number. I tried to draw a drawing a day in December, and got a week in before quitting. Granted, my cartooning style allows for a lot more time-saving shortcuts than my drawing style, but I realized that if the best I could manage is two or three okay drawings a week without wanting to kill myself out of shame for a diminishing style, there would be no way I could possibly keep up two comic pages a day without wanting to do the same. I DO have standards, after all. SO, hard lesson learned. Everyone saying "It's too much!" is probably right, and 32 finished pages in a month seems like a good fair/challenging threshold to me now. I should have brought that up earlier.

I'm still hoping very much that this is going to happen in March. Thanks for reminding me of the Storyboard phase of this thing. It IS important, and I'm gonna get on it right away! (four days behind?! CRAP!) I'm hoping that the dropped final countdown will bring more people in, and I hope that people still think that, what is it, 60? storyboarded pages is still not too much. It shouldn't be. It's rough, after all.

...

Okay. Here's the thing that I've realized in grandios failure. I was probably asking too much of most. I still don't believe I was asking too much of all. I was all stoked, because I'm at a very creative upswing right now, so it feels like I can take on the world. However, I think that a little dose of reality is a good thing, and I took one. So, I'm very sorry if I'm coming off as extremely flakey in this. I should have listened to input more, but I guess I just needed a hard lesson. Now, I'm here eating Crow for all to see, and admitting my mistake.

Please don't kill me. Please don't kill each other. Please please PLEASE feel free to reach beyond the new goal of 32, if you feel up to it, even to the old goal of 60. I've never seen this as a "reach the goal and stop" situation. I've always seen it as a "getting as far as possible in a given amount of time, and proving to yourself what can be done" situation. That was the whole rallying point behind setting the bar so high in the first place. However, now I understand that some people see a bar set high, and end up feeling like high jumpers in the pole vault area. (or some other crummy analogy...)

So, hope no plans are ruined. Hope more people think it's a nice idea. And thanks, Smight, for dragging this thread back up, so I'm held to my words.

Bustertheclown · Post by **Bustertheclown** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:01 pm

Escushion wrote:I'm not making it an event or anything, but I have finished 25 comics in the last two weeks. Still two weeks until school; I want to get done as much as I can.

Man, that's fucking awesome! I stand in awe of your fastness. Truly, "Escushion, Get Your Ass in Gear or Else" Month is a raging success thus far, and I hope you hit your goal!

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:07 am

bustertheclown wrote:
Escushion wrote:I'm not making it an event or anything, but I have finished 25 comics in the last two weeks. Still two weeks until school; I want to get done as much as I can.
Man, that's fucking awesome! I stand in awe of your fastness. Truly, "Escushion, Get Your Ass in Gear or Else" Month is a raging success thus far, and I hope you hit your goal!

Thanks; I don't have a set number (I probably should've, but it's a little late now.) Honestly, it just comes as a result of having too much time on my hands. I've eaten through most of the books I got for Christmas already and the only interruptions I get are doctor appointments, to which I can still work in the waiting room.

32 sounds much more reasonable. I can do 32 in March if I have a few dinners by myself instead of with my friends (not guarunteed to happen, so I might still fall short.)