Your webcomic life and real life - how close are they?

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:56 am

Meh, my family - maybe they know, maybe don't. Either way, they don't care. My friends, and my sister, they know and usually are supportive.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:53 am

My parents know about my comic. I don't think they read it. My friends know about my comic - they read it. My fiance' knows about my comic... she sometimes reads it. All three of my cats are addicted to my comic and regularly read it.

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:44 am

At first no one knew.
After a year or so I started showing some of the drawings to my parents, because they are both skilled in art so I wanted some comments. But I haven't shown them the comic (like, full story arcs with dialogs and stuff), because I'm not sure I want them to know I'm that crazy. Besides mom doesn't know english, and dad knows it only a bit, so I'd have to translate it for them.

My brothers knew when I was drawing, but I wasn't showing it to them. Perhaps they know the URL, but if they do they don't care.

As far as I know, my friends don't know.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:26 am

Friends, family, co-workers . . . I even told the nice lady who cut my hair the other day. I left a comic-related doodle with the comic's URL scribbled underneath on a napkin at a restaurant one day. I really don't mind if anyone I know knows about RotD. Heck, one of the neatest e-mails I ever got was from one of my aunts down in Texas . . . she told me that she was just doing a random Google check on my name to see what popped up and was halfway through the front page of RotD before she realized it was actually me.

JPSloan · Post by **JPSloan** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:37 pm

A large portion of what I put in my comic is directly based off of real life. I tell everyone about it, except my coworkers (since I paint them in a poor light). Of course, that's less a problem now that I've changed employment, but still...

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:01 pm

Jim North wrote:Heck, one of the neatest e-mails I ever got was from one of my aunts down in Texas . . . she told me that she was just doing a random Google check on my name to see what popped up and was halfway through the front page of RotD before she realized it was actually me.

One word: Pseudonym.

Pockybot · Post by **Pockybot** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 3:12 am

This is a good post. Well, PockyBot does mirror some aspects of my life. At its nexus, its a story about a lonely kid full of imagination and wonder...who immerses himself in a wacky online battlefield mmorpg against the backdrop of not having a social life in real life.

As for as people...well a couple of interesting people I know IRL are in it, but trust me...they are real life 'characters'. I also will in strange ways adapt things that happen to me in the comic...not mundane 'Real Life' style, but my own twist on Cory's misadventures.

But for the most part, what I lack in real life I make up for in the comic, and thus is the whole point of all the madness.

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 10:46 am

pockybot wrote: As for as people...well a couple of interesting people I know IRL are in it[...]

The question is... do they know about it? And do they read the comic?

War · Post by **War** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 12:12 pm

Mine's an autobiography.

Pockybot · Post by **Pockybot** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:12 pm

falos wrote:My webcomic was originally an ordinary comic, which was just something within my friends.

Ever since I went digital though, I just tell folks "Yeah, I run a webcomic. Try it sometime." Not much of a big deal, I don't lose much time on it.

Well, given they even tell me what theyd like to see thei rcharacter do in future strips, and were with me promoting PockyBot at Fanime 2004 in full cosplay regalia...I would think so;)

Ida · Post by **Ida** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 3:53 pm

My best friend knows. Everybody else... well, most people I know probably wouldn't even know what a webcomic IS, for one, and to be honest, I would be rather ashamed if they knew. I haven't told my parents yet, though I plan on doing it when the story has unfolded more - on the other hand, my mother tends to tackle my interests rather strangely (she used 'Spirited Away' to partially psychoanalyse me. O_o), so I might tell dad first, especially since he is actually into comics.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 6:09 am

A couple of my friends know about my comic. My mom sorta knows; actually she just knows I do drawings and put them onto the internet.

Blahsville! · Post by **Blahsville!** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 9:00 am

My friends know about it... but I get varying degrees of support from them, as for family... pretty much only my mom and brother. It's not that I'm ashamed so much as I only tend to pimp my site to those who would appreciate my style of humor.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:30 am

Both our sets of parents (co-writers, before you guys start getting any funny ideas) are aware of School Spirit. I know mine don't read it, but I'm not sure about his folks.

My sister knows, and apparently tells her friends, but who knows really? Others know I do it, but don't read it often. Otherwise, I have no idea who's reading, except one person who was nice enough to send us an email, and he actually had good things to say.

Besides that, we seem to be getting regular visits, so there's a few more strangers than people we know reading.

Mind you, be good if those we know would take a more active interest...

Maybe I should spread the word around school? It's PG rated, so I'm sure the kids in my grade could read it too...

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