That sounds like Tangents. I get the appeal, but I wouldn't do that.Okay, I see what you mean. I know there's been sites in the past that have done like tabloid style highlights of "what's going on this week in webcomics" but my experience with those is pretty limited because they usually all tended to discuss the same ten webcomics everyone knows about and either actively follows or deliberately does not (as opposed to comics where the only reason you wouldn't read it is because you hadn't heard much about it or heard about it at all before).
One advantage of being more newspaper-y is that it'd make the blog more active by letting me do smaller pieces in between the longer ones. Like, in your first example, I could post pages/strips from three-ish political webcomics and write a bit about them. I'd have to search for them, though, since I don't know of many. There are obviously a lot of non-webcomics political cartoons, but I really just want to cover webcomics. As for the hiatus thing, I could do police blotter gags where I joke about hiatus'd webcartoonists getting arrested or killed. It's kind of douchey, but, really, I think most webcartoonists would just be glad to have their work acknowledged in any manner, and it would be ridiculous enough to not be taken seriously. And while I know I should be focusing on actual reviews instead of gags, I've been able to do the joke posts really quickly since I'm just making random shit up. As for "drama," I wouldn't cover gossip-y stuff, but I would cover sketchy behavior. Some examples where I did that are my reviews of A Link to the Webcomic, UnCONventional, and Shredded Moose. Stuff like tracing and plagiarism could also merit coverage. So, basically, situations where someone did something shitty and deserves to get called out for it.Though to get extremely literal, it's interesting (to me at least) to think of different ways webcomics journalism might resemble a real newspaper. Looking at how different politically bent comics handle discussing the same real life event might be kind of amusing. An obituary column drawing attention to comics that either deliberately ended or seem to have gone to that great hiatus in the sky would be kind of funny (and who knows it may be the kick in the pants people in the second category need to get to work again). One could also report on actual drama that unfolds between different creators, creators and fans, etc, though that also gets kind of gossipy (and may encourage harassment) and may be one of those things that's better left discussed in shitty hole-in-the-wall forums than presented as news.
There's probably enough material for me to do at least one article on Patreon. I mean, it's kinda crazy how big it's gotten already even though it's still pretty new.Reportings on people's Patreons and perceived worths would be kind of a new thing. Like take two comics comparable in popularity leverage and note that Creator J updates daily and makes this much per month whereas Creator A updates every three weeks or so despite promises to update biweekly and still makes a killing more than J.
This idea seems to be the most difficult, but I might be able to work with it.Other comparisons may include looking at a creator's old art (whether within their current comic or from a preveious project) and showing how far they have (or have not) come in that time.
This idea's really helpful since I've had a problem keeping up with requests. Sort of like I did with that review where I put two single-panel gag webcomics together, I could do two or three webcomics together that have something significant in common. I could then compare/contrast them a bit, write about the subject, and then score them based on how well each one covered the subject. As long as I can do those in a high-quality way, I think they'd be pretty entertaining while also helping more webcomics get attention.I think youv'e done this before in your reviews, but articles where a topic is analyzed over a few different comics as opposed to just reviewing one comic in its entirety are also interesting. Like to pick a random example, transgendered characters being represented- obviously there's mostly going to be the fetish comics, but then there's also some that genuinely try to tackle the subject meaningfully, what makes one representation less offensive than another? That particular subject is probably either overtrod or just not something worth spending that much time analyzing but any umbrella topic that spans different comics (and even genres) may get people interested in a discussion.
These ideas are definitely helpful. I just don't want to get too comfortable doing the same thing all the time, especially since there's a lot of room for experimentation.Idk if any of these are more in line with what you're thinking of but maybe it'll jumpstart somebody else to have a more relevant idea.
I'm not interested in discussing that right now. I am, however, interested in hearing what you have to say about the questions I presented in my initial post.Bustertheclown wrote:Is it really all that necessary any longer to make a distinction between comics on the web and comics found in other formats?
Nah, but if you want to do it, I'll upload your post to the blog.Ahaugen wrote:You could talk about Berkley Breathed bringing back Bloom County as a webcomic
LibertyCabbage wrote:Holy fuck, I just wasted an hour listening to a podcast called Webcomic Workshop, and they didn't even bring up webcomics until the very end where one of the podcasters talked about his own webcomic for a few minutes.
They actually admitted it, too:VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:That's just obnoxious.
In this podcast, we chat about how we we’re using Video chat on Skype, the Weather, Dawn’s new Surface Pro, Byron’s Manga Studio 5 demonstration in Chicago, smoking pot vs cigars (briefly), Memphis and Graceland, Remakes of Movies, Women as Heroes in Movies, New Comic Con in Columbus, Ohio in October, and 1977 the Comic Spoilers. Not bad for only three of us.
I'm actually planning on doing a series of these "umbrella topic" reviews soon as a new strategy for 2016. My idea's to do something kinda epic and new that also helps me get a lot of requests done.VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:I think youv'e done this before in your reviews, but articles where a topic is analyzed over a few different comics as opposed to just reviewing one comic in its entirety are also interesting. Like to pick a random example, transgendered characters being represented- obviously there's mostly going to be the fetish comics, but then there's also some that genuinely try to tackle the subject meaningfully, what makes one representation less offensive than another? That particular subject is probably either overtrod or just not something worth spending that much time analyzing but any umbrella topic that spans different comics (and even genres) may get people interested in a discussion.
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