What's the Weirdest Thing You've Done for Your Comic?

Jen_Babcock · Post by **Jen_Babcock** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:04 pm

supernerdcore wrote:
and I created a minicomic that I pass around at bars and clubs by telling people, "I found Jesus, and he wants you to read this" which makes them think "what the fuck?" then they see the cover and go "what the fuck?"

That's awesome- I'm wanna try that someday.

IronSpike · Post by **IronSpike** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:16 am

Mostly research subjects I have no natural interest in. Astronomy, endocrinology, Edwardian fashion and architecture, common themes in apocalyptic prophecy, Chinese martial arts, Buddhism, mental illness, urban chicken husbandry, the history of the personal computer....

Td501 · Post by **Td501** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:14 am

Bought a Cintiq monitor for Dewback Wing. A friend was shocked to learn I colored with a mouse, told me about tablets and linked me a site. From there I found the Cintiq and purchased it – a risky investment considering I didn’t know if I’d like drawing on a medium other than paper. But the last five pages have been completely paperless and I couldn’t be happier!

Fishies · Post by **Fishies** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:58 am

I drew my own X-rated yaoi incestual fanart and posted it on my lj.

Redtech · Post by **Redtech** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:18 am

phact0rri wrote:
Redtech wrote:My mum wants a ChemWaFaCor (a subfaction from the main cast) tatoo.
I wish my mum wanted a tattoo period.

My mum >> your mum. She's already got a nude angel on her arm.

Then again, she gave birth to me, so that balances karma out methinks.

BTW, what is it with the sexual euphemisms in this thread and NO PICTURES!!

Lei · Post by **Lei** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:09 pm

Equinox is the reason I graduated. >>

Jekkal · Post by **Jekkal** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:33 pm

Lei wrote:Equinox is the reason I graduated. >>

Okay, come on, backstory. How did this work, exactly?

Mon Ami · Post by **Mon Ami** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:08 pm

Fishies wrote:I drew my own X-rated yaoi incestual fanart and posted it on my lj.

I SO have to do that

Pattyannboyd · Post by **Pattyannboyd** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:53 am

I got a tattoo of fan art from my comic.

It's been coloured since this picture was taken... I should update it

Paul Escobar · Post by **Paul Escobar** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:58 am

Shishio wrote:Does masturbating to your comic count?

If it improved or promoted your comic, I'd say yes. Though I can't imagine how it would.

supernerdcore wrote:I created a minicomic that I pass around at bars and clubs by telling people, "I found Jesus, and he wants you to read this" which makes them think "what the fuck?" then they see the cover and go "what the fuck?"

... that's brilliant. If I drew a regular comic, I'd so steal this idea.

Birdie · Post by **Birdie** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:08 am

Paul Escobar wrote:
supernerdcore wrote:I created a minicomic that I pass around at bars and clubs by telling people, "I found Jesus, and he wants you to read this" which makes them think "what the fuck?" then they see the cover and go "what the fuck?"
... that's brilliant. If I drew a regular comic, I'd so steal this idea.

The trick I'm working on now, is selling ad space for the comic to pay the printing costs, and on the back I had a caption that said "buy birdie a beer" and when I'm at bars, I'm hoping I get free beer. So far i've gotten 3 free beers for the work

Eve Z. · Post by **Eve Z.** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:58 pm

pattyannboyd wrote:I got a tattoo of fan art from my comic.

It's been coloured since this picture was taken... I should update it

heck... that's too cool.

Dallawalla · Post by **Dallawalla** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:33 pm

This is not so much for my comic as it was for me:

I destroyed one of my one-panel comics because i thought it had under tones of me being gay. I was in a "paranoid" state at the time.

Ti-Phil · Post by **Ti-Phil** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:43 pm

...using one of the characters from the comic as the perfect exemple of what is wrong in my life?

Redtech · Post by **Redtech** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:47 pm

dallawalla wrote:This is not so much for my comic as it was for me:

I destroyed one of my one-panel comics because i thought it had under tones of me being gay. I was in a "paranoid" state at the time.

That's pretty 'epic'. Not in a good way. Really.
I draw a 'furry comic'. There are worse things than being called gay!

Ocassus · Post by **Ocassus** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 8:33 pm

I refused to go on vacations so I could begin my comic, and I regret-it-not >D

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:22 am

There was a poll on female sexuality that got some press coverage and got talked about around here. For a (now defunct) CG webzine, I did a poll of the women on ComicGenesis regarding their sexual habits, in a similar style to the poll that was reported on. All responses were anonymous; I only got raw data back with no link to who said what.

I got sick before the article could be written, and the webzine went defunct before it could later write it.

I was going to use the data for a Reasoned Cognition question on human sexuality, but the provider of the anonymous polling I used deleted the data because I was using a guest version and didn't log in for thirty days.

So the weirdest thing I've done for my comic was to ask a lot of women anonymously about their sexuality and then do nothing with the data.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:08 am

Ocassus wrote:I refused to go on vacations so I could begin my comic, and I regret-it-not >D

I wrote my current story on a bus in British Columbia during a vacation on the backs of receipts and post-it notes.

Alschroeder · Post by **Alschroeder** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:40 am

IronSpike wrote:Mostly research subjects I have no natural interest in. Astronomy, endocrinology, Edwardian fashion and architecture, common themes in apocalyptic prophecy, Chinese martial arts, Buddhism, mental illness, urban chicken husbandry, the history of the personal computer....

What he said.

For my next storyline, I'm researching simian/chimpanzee societal dynamics, and doing the same for elephants. (Did you know rogue male elephants have been known to rape and kill rhinoceri? So much for humanity being the only animal to kill for anything but food...)

I've had to look up the latest speculations on Brane theories in cosmology, utility fogs, where the continental shelf ends, and the surprising fact that an octopus' appendages are arms, not tentacles. (So, technically, that makes a favorite Japanese export "arm porn".)

---Al

Lei · Post by **Lei** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:58 pm

jekkal wrote:
Lei wrote:Equinox is the reason I graduated. >>
Okay, come on, backstory. How did this work, exactly?

Not much of a story... I did my senior project on comic books – we had to have a research portion, a community portion, and a final product to show for it all. So, for research, I got to sit around reading comic books and call it 'work', for community I taught art classes to middle schoolers, and for my product, I drew Equinox. >> And since I couldn't have graduated without my senior project... *shrugs*