How are you doing, comic-wise?

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Sun Sep 29, 2013 10:16 pm

I solved something that was bothering me about the ending to my second book today. It feels good.

No one else will have any idea what this refers to for at least 2-3 years, however.

Mr. Neil · Post by **Mr. Neil** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:12 pm

I'm kind of jumping around my story line. I've got about 40 pages to go. The next ten pages in my comic are completely laid out (but not finished artwork). And ten pages at the end are in a similar state, with another six in in various places in the chronology. So now what I'm doing is slowly filling in the gaps.

It's pretty exciting to be at this stage, to actually see a light at the end of the tunnel. There's a lot of work left, but it's definitely feeling like every day I make a colossal leap forward.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:23 am

I just got back into plotting the first pages of chapter 2 (or three) and I didn't realize it but I dropped my flash drive with all my art and drafts on the street in front of my office... I found it sitting there today unmolested and went nuts. WHEW.

Then I went into work, got online and and promptly goofed off. Been reading so many good comics that I cannot wait to start drawing again (god especially Loud Era omg cuddly that comic. THAT COMIC).

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:23 am

Sortelli wrote:I just got back into plotting the first pages of chapter 2 (or three) and I didn't realize it but I dropped my flash drive with all my art and drafts on the street in front of my office... I found it sitting there today unmolested and went nuts. WHEW.

omg thank god i thought you were going to say it was gone forever

Then I went into work, got online and and promptly goofed off. Been reading so many good comics that I cannot wait to start drawing again (god especially Loud Era omg cuddly that comic. THAT COMIC).

AWWWWWWWWWWWWW<33333333333333

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:35 pm

Sortelli wrote:I just got back into plotting the first pages of chapter 2 (or three) and I didn't realize it but I dropped my flash drive with all my art and drafts on the street in front of my office... I found it sitting there today unmolested and went nuts. WHEW.

Then I went into work, got online and and promptly goofed off. Been reading so many good comics that I cannot wait to start drawing again (god especially Loud Era omg cuddly that comic. THAT COMIC).

Hurry I'm going through Sir Jors withdrawal.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Wed Oct 02, 2013 6:57 pm

I feel like sprite comics are written in some kind of cuneiform, with a grammar and syntax entirely foreign and impenetrable to me.

JSConner800 · Post by **JSConner800** » Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:34 pm

We just released our first animated strip! http://www.steelsalvationcomic.com/page ... a1-27.html

Okay, the whole thing isn't animated, but still. We're excited

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Tue Oct 08, 2013 7:32 am

My blog's been getting a lot of clicks from this Something Awful thread, but it looks like you can't read threads there unless you pay $10 or something? Does anyone here have an SA account and can fill me in on what they're talking about over there?

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Tue Oct 08, 2013 8:02 am

LibertyCabbage wrote:My blog's been getting a lot of clicks from this Something Awful thread, but it looks like you can't read threads there unless you pay $10 or something? Does anyone here have an SA account and can fill me in on what they're talking about over there?

I linked to you there. I'll post some quotes, it's generally positive.

Random question - anyone know of any good webcomic discussion/review sites or forums besides this one?

I mean, there's Webcomic Overlook, which is pretty decent, and I guess there's Tangents if I ever want to read someone fawn over the latest page of Megatokyo or whatever, but are there any other ones out there?

I reply:

The Webcomic Police have a small group of contributors who give thoughtful reviews on very varied comics, many of which are low-key or small audience comics that haven't had much (if any) press.

Original dude replies:

Yeah, I visited that site once, and was immediately turned off by the site design. There's such a thing as committing too much to a gimmick.

Different dude:

FWIW, The Webcomic Police site is kinda interesting. It came from some guy posting reviews on a thread on some forum. I think it's smarter than most.

I respond:

Yeah, it was pretty cool. He was bored at work so just started writing reviews for comics in his spare time. Then had amassed a bunch of them and was like "Hey guys, I think I'm gonna put a blog together." I think most people set out the opposite way- "Let me do a blog! Oh, wait, I need to make some content," and end up reviewing a handful of comics before burning out.

(Of course it helps that there's other contributors, but the majority of the reviews are still LibertyCabbage's.)

I can understand how the design can seem overwhelming. The chunk of widgets at the top used to take up so much space that you couldn't even see any of the actual content above the fold, but after it was pointed out to him, he changed it. I don't know much about site design, but it does kind of seme like the theme is front-and-center instead of the content. I'll mention that to LC sometime, though he might check his referral links and see this commentary anyway.

I wasn't aware that the paywall was still up, but looks like I was right about you finding out about it either way.

Then it shifted to talking about how bad the "Shitty Webcomics" tumblr is.

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Tue Oct 08, 2013 10:43 am

That was nice of ya. The blog got a pretty good traffic spike from the link.

Yeah, I visited that site once, and was immediately turned off by the site design. There's such a thing as committing too much to a gimmick.

I don't know much about site design, but it does kind of seme like the theme is front-and-center instead of the content. I'll mention that to LC sometime, though he might check his referral links and see this commentary anyway.

It's good to get some feedback like this. It got me thinking about the layout again, and I'll probably make some changes to the site soon.

(Of course it helps that there's other contributors, but the majority of the reviews are still LibertyCabbage's.)

That's actually not true anymore. The last three months had an average of 12 posts a month, while I've only been making four posts a month. You're right, though, that I've probably written the majority of the posts since the blog started last year, as there were already about 90 entries posted by the time I opened the blog up to contributors in March.

Then it shifted to talking about how bad the "Shitty Webcomics" tumblr is.

I'm not surprised.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Tue Oct 08, 2013 10:41 pm

I cannot believe that it is 2013 and people still pay money to participate in those forums. S'funny though, not too long ago I was able to read them when they were talking about SCP stuff. Every time someone posted "gently caress" instead of FUCK I made an involuntary fist and had a momentary daydream about grabbing the front bumper of that person's car and just flipping it into the air with my rage-fueled super strength while they said "aaaaah I regret my poor life choices"

I cannot believe how fucking puritan shitty online societies can be

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Wed Oct 09, 2013 6:07 am

Sortelli wrote:I cannot believe that it is 2013 and people still pay money to participate in those forums. S'funny though, not too long ago I was able to read them when they were talking about SCP stuff. Every time someone posted "gently caress" instead of FUCK I made an involuntary fist and had a momentary daydream about grabbing the front bumper of that person's car and just flipping it into the air with my rage-fueled super strength while they said "aaaaah I regret my poor life choices"

I cannot believe how fucking puritan shitty online societies can be

That's the profanity filter for people viewing without an account

I think it's pretty hilarious. Especially when someone has just signed up, doesn't know it was a filter, and actually posts like that.

Once you log in, it's fucks, shits, and whatever other words as far as the eye can see.

The amusement I've had there is highly worth the 10$ I paid for the original account, and the 10$ archive access upgrade. The paywall tends to make it easier to keep out people who just don't know how to make a good post, and sets the bar high for only the most amusing and dedicated of trolls.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:21 am

I feel slightly more relieved to know that wasn't some silly meme. Still though. All the good people who post there are people I get to interact with outside of that ridiculous paywall. Also SA is terrible.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:39 am

To each their own, I suppose. I find it preferable to other vast nerd watering holes (like Reddit), but I mostly just stick around the comic-related areas, PYF nonsense timewasters, and some of the "real people" goop in the advice forum and the whining forum.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Wed Oct 09, 2013 2:40 pm

also reddit is terrible

*sits on a rocking chair, shaking his cane at the sky*

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Wed Oct 09, 2013 2:57 pm

The avatar really makes that image.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Wed Oct 09, 2013 3:48 pm

I love you for being the old person around here who knows me as a creepy sloth instead of a tentacle monster <3

On the subject of where I am in comics... OH MAN I have written and sketched and then rewritten and resketched the first pages of my next chapter a dozen times. I really need to make this a tighter story since it took me 50 some pages to get this far when I was only expecting around half that. And writing page by page caused a lot of missteps. I might have to get this whole chapter plotted before drawing anything. This is the first time I've found the writing aspect to be the hard part.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Oct 09, 2013 4:40 pm

Sortelli wrote:also reddit is terrible

*sits on a rocking chair, shaking his cane at the sky*

But.... but..... /r/gonewild!

And.... /r/gonewildcurvy!

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Wed Oct 09, 2013 6:31 pm

Oh man Warren! What it is my brutha!

(oh geez I meant to say Cuddly was the "only person who knew me as a sloth" not the "old person")

(the old person is me)

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Wed Oct 09, 2013 6:57 pm

Sortelli wrote:Oh man Warren! What it is my brutha!

(oh geez I meant to say Cuddly was the "only person who knew me as a sloth" not the "old person")

(the old person is me)

I thought it was a typo for "odd person" so i mean like you know like i mean

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