Introduction Thread - Welcome to the New and Old

[clairevoyant]

Hello.

[Milsparro]

Hello All, I've got something called no control I've been working on, up as soon as I can get this all working.

[Shadow Crystal Mage]

Hello!

[Beko]

Hello.

[Strattou]

Hai!

I look forward to working on a webcomic!

[Ronzy]

Hello!

[Ronzy]

Hello Hello! looking forward new comics as well

[HotGlu]

I have been the author of a few comics in the past, Abstract Anomaly (which was not hosted by KeenSpace), Practice Strip, tree and Sam's Diner.

I'm currently the author of Sequents, and am waiting for my account to get processed. (So while I wait, I'm on the forum and editing my strips)

So, hello. Again. ^^

My goal is to stick with one comic strip without getting carried away and see if I can make it past five strips/two months. If I can, then I hope to carry on a successful run.

Lessons learned from the past:

1. Balance out your work/social life before deciding if you want to try an online comic strip
2. Draw and ink at least five before signing up for an account.
3. Don't get carried away with banner ads, advertising and blogging. The comic should come first.
4. Use the characters that you carried with you throughout your life.
5. Enjoy what you're doing and where you're going.


At least that's in my opinion.

Right, enough jabbering from me. ^^

[Atn]

O hai! We are Laika and Spitfire! You might remember us from the comic Incomplete (or then again, maybe not!). This time around we're creating a remake of Incomplete, this time with a better script and better art! Yay!

[nbarsuli]

Hello all!

My name's Nick, and I'm the author for the new webcomic "How To Finish Last." I'm absolutely thrilled to start the update process and get this comic off the ground and onto its feet. Just thought I'd introduce myself here and give a hearty "hello" to all my fellow Comic Gennies.

-Nick-

[VeiledThinly]

Hi! New to Comic Genesis, and comic-making, but very excited to be here!

~Amanda W. & Kelly S!

[Tigia]

Hi hi!

[nbarsuli]

So...I don't want to speak out of turn here (being new and all), but hasn't this thread kind of lost its purpose?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it was originally created to allow for people to greet the new gennies, and for new gennies to introduce themselves and meet other people, right? It seems that now, it's been reduced to being used as a thread in which new gennies introduce themselves (or just say "hi"), and no one really cares after that. It's become the thread used as one of the default threads allowing new people to post at least once to work on the Wiki page.

I, however, want to stand against that.

Therefore, I shall welcome Amanda and Kelly to the site (since Tigia didn't really post much else for me to go off of), and I will say that I'm very excited to see what they come up with!

[Metalbolt]

Amazing website duuuuuuude.

[Dao2]

Hello. I feel like I've had to jump through a couple of hoops to get here. For anyone concerned, the username "dao" with a lowercase "D" may be deleted.

[FollesGuy]

Hi. My name is Ira and I cannot draw worth a shit. The idea that I would be creating Web comics was, frankly, laughable to me. And, then...

I have a Web site called Les Pages aux Folles that was originally intended to showcase my written satire. Almost from the beginning, my Web Goddess, Gisela, bugged me to add more graphical content. At first, I resisted (you know, because of the not being able to draw worth a shit thing). Then, my dad got a digital camera. This opened up a whole new world for me: fumetti. (For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it means photograph-based cartoons.) The first cartoon on my Web site, "My Toronto," was born. I still occasionally create this comic, and have about 30 that have yet to be posted to my site.

For a while, I tried a second cartoon, "Blackout Funnies." This consisted of four black panels with funny or silly or absurd speech balloons. It was a clever concept, but I felt it got repetitious fairly quickly, and stopped creating them after 100.

My third attempt at a comic was "Delicate Negotiations." As I have explained elsewhere, for this comic I took a photograph of an old flame of mine, made an outline of her face and added three different types of hair (one masculine, two feminine). I have since added outlines of dogs, cats, a shark and a T-Rex. This comic focuses on relationships, romantic and otherwise, but maintains the absurdist bent of "My Toronto." I currently have 300 in my storehouse, although less than 200 have been posted to my Web site, so this is the comic that I currently focus on.

(I have started a fourth comic, as well, but I do not have many of them yet, and I do not know if I will ever have enough to comfortably start posting them to my Web site. The working title, for those of you who like trivia, is "Kiss My ASCII.")

There the matter would have lain, except for one embarrassing fact: the most positive feedback I get from my site has been from the cartoons. Oh, no! So, I now take them a lot more seriously than I used to.

I have dedicated this summer to promoting my work. For example: in the next couple of weeks, I will be a guest at a couple of science fiction conventions where I will be selling two of my prose books. Having been a fan of some Comic Genesis comics over the years, this seemed like another opportunity for me to reach a wider audience. We live in hope.

Now, if I can just connect to the database...

[TaleSpinner]

Hey.

[Mangaka2170]

Hey, all. I've been working on a (not so) little comic project called Frontier: 2170 (http://frontier2170.comicgenesis.com, URL tags don't seem to be working) in one iteration or another for the past six years or so (I'm probably on version 5 or 6 right now) and I recently started uploading to CG, which is why I only have 3 or 4 pages to show for it currently (I'm actually working on page 47 as we speak), but that'll change once my backlog catches up with me. I'm still figuring my way around HTML and the like, so any help in the website department would be appreciated (and some constructive criticism of my work wouldn't go amiss, either).

[Indanthrone]

Hello world!

[peterabnny]

Reposted this from the main directory as I didn't initially see this thread. If someone could kindly direct me as to how to delete my original intro thread (couldn't find anything about deleting threads), I'd be happy to kill it.

*waves*

Hello, all! Signed up with this new-fangled CG account some time ago to expand my comic's reach but didn't really do anything with it since I was already busy with other forums - namely, the woxy.com boards, Facebook and FurAffinity.net (since I have an anthro strip). I finally did manage to get up a critique request back in November; thanks so much to everyone who looked and offered their advice! But other than that, haven't even been able to be so much a lurker.

In the time since, tho, the evil IT Nazis at my employer have woxy and FB blocked (a bloke's gotta have something to do at lunch ), and I've left FA since I don't do the weird fetish porn that furries seem to prefer in their artwork (people, you can't unsee some of the stuff to be found there! O.O ). So here I am. I've neglected CG far too long, and it's time to explore what you guys have to offer.

I look forward to hanging out here and talking with you guys, and hopefully get something going with my comic. I'm still trying to figure out how to get artwork uploaded here and utilize the auto-update thingie, but if you wanna see my stuff head on over to my website at http://www.crittersonline.org . Feel free to let me know what you think, good or bad.

Until then, hope to see ya around! Please forgive my newness as I try to learn my way around. Thanks to CuddlyCornpone for the welcome in my other thread!