Is it like being an alcoholic? You go to AA, you stop drinking, but it doesn't mean you're not an alcoholic. You're an alcoholic who got sober, or a comic artist who doesn't draw anymore.LibertyCabbage wrote:Does anybody ever really "quit comics," or does it feel like everyone who does inevitably gets back into at some point?
Yeah, pretty much. I mean nagging voices can save you from some terrible decisions but eventually you gotta do something.LibertyCabbage wrote:I consider myself to still be in the "learning phase," which is a somewhat comforting concept. But, ultimately, I feel like the less I think about what I'm doing, the better, because I don't want nagging bits of negativity creeping up on me. When it comes to making Freakboy, my attitude's been to tune everything out and just focus on one thing, which is getting this chapter done.Yeahduff wrote:When it comes down to it I'm just kinda bad at this.
Of my 3 comics the first 2 hit a wall at just over 50 comics and the third I should have started running on Monday but still haven't got round to updating it. The 2nd comic is RTP, which hasn't been abandonned, merely in suspended animation for over a year. The first started in 2005, the second in 2009 and the 3rd in 2013. I look forward to introducing y'all to the next new comic in 4 years time.VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:Is it like being an alcoholic? You go to AA, you stop drinking, but it doesn't mean you're not an alcoholic. You're an alcoholic who got sober, or a comic artist who doesn't draw anymore.LibertyCabbage wrote:Does anybody ever really "quit comics," or does it feel like everyone who does inevitably gets back into at some point?
Naming stuff after the names of other stuff is always fun.LibertyCabbage wrote: Oh, and I finally figured out what I'm gonna name the second chapter. It's the title of a David Bowie song.
My problem is that I usually want to make a reference that is so old and so far from being in the public conscience that I feel obligated to explain it in an authors comment so people don't miss out on how cool I amrobotthepirate wrote: Naming stuff after the names of other stuff is always fun.
No. You're so cool you don't need other people to know it. If other people are cool enough to know how cool you are then they deserve to know, if they're not then they don't.VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:My problem is that I usually want to make a reference that is so old and so far from being in the public conscience that I feel obligated to explain it in an authors comment so people don't miss out on how cool I amrobotthepirate wrote: Naming stuff after the names of other stuff is always fun.
Every chapter in Maelstrom Heart is named after a song title. Some of them make sense, others not so much and one in the first book is a particularly lame joke.VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:My problem is that I usually want to make a reference that is so old and so far from being in the public conscience that I feel obligated to explain it in an authors comment so people don't miss out on how cool I amrobotthepirate wrote: Naming stuff after the names of other stuff is always fun.
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I prefer to wait till a joke is dead or a reference is old before using it. It lulls the reader into a false sense of security that something has run it's course and then BAM! YOU TOO CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER!VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:My problem is that I usually want to make a reference that is so old and so far from being in the public conscience that I feel obligated to explain it in an authors comment so people don't miss out on how cool I amrobotthepirate wrote: Naming stuff after the names of other stuff is always fun.
I like doing it with chapter titles, often using song lyrics I feel are appropriate to the particular chapter. For those who get the reference I feel like it adds a bit of depth and possibly puts a song in their heads that might be "playing" as they read something.McDuffies wrote:I kinda don't like when things are named after other things because I figure that as a writer, one is supposed to be able to come up with memorable phrases instead of borrowing other people's.
On the other hand, coming up with memorable phrases is hard.
hei feiverobotthepirate wrote:Just finished a RTP page! First page in over a year. Woo!
I am intrigued....VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:I just totally revolutionized the way I draw heads, you guys.
Deviantart~tumblr if i draw the head first and then the face the features don't look as disproportionalRobboAKAscooby wrote:I am intrigued....VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:I just totally revolutionized the way I draw heads, you guys.
