A Werewolf Story

Guyford · Post by **Guyford** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:47 am

I finally passed the 20 page requirement, so here's a link to my webcomic "A Werewolf Story".

http://fredmon.studio1311.net/WebComicP ... 42006.html

It focuses on 3 main characters and how their lives are impacted by their encounters with the supernatural. The story is currently in the establish-the-characters phase, so things are still ramping up.

//edit: I changed the url to point to the first comic image instead of the general comic site.

Wp · Post by Wp » Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:31 pm

I think it goes without saying, but awesome art. Nice establishment of atmosphere.

Swikan · Post by **Swikan** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:51 pm

I liked it too. And the male characters are well established already

If I may nit-pick, I did notice a grammatical error ("your" instead of "you're" somewhere around page 12) in one place, thought the talk balloons when he was listening to his phone messages would have been more clear had there been a different one for each message/speaker. And I would have preferred being linked directly to the comic rather than to the website.

I really like the story so far too, I'm definitely interested in what is going to happen next! And I understand about establishing the characters. It is important that we care about them.

I like the website design.

I will definitely be checking back with your comic!

Guyford · Post by **Guyford** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:40 pm

Thanks for your opinions

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I changed the url in my original post to point to the first comic instead of the main comic page.

In regards to the voice message word balloons, it would have been the ideal situation to break the bubbles up by speaker, but I messed up in estimating how much space the text would take up (I'm new at the adding dialog to my pictures), so I had to move some text to the next panel. I'm trying to get better at accounting for text space when I draw though.

I also looked through the pages for the grammatical "your" error, but I couldn't find it. Maybe I'm just glossing over it because I spent so much time looking at this stuff before I upload (although I did find a spelling error while doing the grammar check).

Thanks again for the comments.

Swikan · Post by **Swikan** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:03 pm

Fred, I went back and couldn't find the "your" error either.. I must have dreamed it.

Sorry about that.

In doing so, tho, I missed having the navigation buttons at the top of the pages. Would have made flipping through the pages much easier.

So.... when can we see the halloween costume?

Prisoner · Post by **Prisoner** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:07 pm

Do you ink physically or digitally?

Prisoner · Post by **Prisoner** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:08 pm

I would also recommend a navigation system that works on pages instead of just previous and next. Gives the user more freedom to navigate through past pages if they want to look for something particular.

Guyford · Post by **Guyford** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:41 pm

Swikan: Thanks for double checking. I re-read the whole thing twice and couldn't find anything after you posted initially. I'll fix that spelling error I found as a result of that this weekend though.

In regards to the navigation, although I do see your point about having a navigation bar on top, I think I will stick with the current layout for now. I think the site would look a bit cluttered with 2 nav bars. My logic is that folks would read from the top down and then click on a link at the bottom to navigate once they finished looking at a page.

Halloween costume will be in the first panel of the next page, so hopefully this coming Monday.

Prisoner: I ink with 2 Sakura Pigma Microns (.50 and .25 mm line width), do touch up work, and convert to vector art after scanning it in. In regards to navigation systems, my personal preference is for the current scheme. It doesn't take up a lot of screen real estate and you can directly jump to a specific page from the archive page.

Thanks again for your comments. I appreciate the feedback.

KarenB · Post by **KarenB** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:50 am

It looks very interesting. I like the characters already, and can't wait to learn more about them. It's always a good sign when you manage to make your reader feel bummed that 'aww, this was the last page'.

I for one am looking forward to the update.

Guyford · Post by **Guyford** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:21 pm

I was a bit worried about pacing in general after looking through my story outline (no nonstop blood n' guts werewolf violence so far), but I'm glad that folks don't seem to have any issues with it so far.

Thanks for checking the comic out and thanks for your feedback.

Americangothic · Post by **Americangothic** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:27 pm

I really like it so far!

Do you happen to have a banner for linking? I'd like to add it to my links page over at American Gothic Daily.

Gothia

Guyford · Post by **Guyford** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:02 pm

Thanks for taking a look

I don't have a banner as of yet. I'm in the process of trying to make a new logo that's in English to replace the current predominantly Japanese one. My thinking was that a banner wouldn't serve much purpose if a lot of folks didn't understand what the logo said.