Starting a webcomic

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 5:38 am

Phalanx wrote:Oh an here's the obligatory plug to How NOT to Start a Comic

Oh! I've been meaning to get another submission ready for that!

Axonite · Post by **Axonite** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:42 am

I had a submission for HNTRAC a week or two ago, but I put it in my pocket and forgot about it instead of scanning it and emailing it. Is there a "how not to submit to HNTRAC" category coming up?

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 11:35 am

trinket90 wrote:
TOXIC AVENGER! wrote: Sketch paper notebook
Drawing pencils/pens
Scanner (I recommend Canon)
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator*
But let's not start the digital-versus-traditional debate again.

I actually use both digital and traditional. Some stuff if scanned and computer inked while other stuff is vector drawing done in illustrator. My avatar, for example, the head was done in illustrator while the body was hand drawn and scanned.

[AOD] · Post by **[AOD]** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 11:49 am

Who needs to be consistent and introduce the reader slowly and thoughtfully? If you've got well-thought out characters, you can just toss 'em right into the thick of it! For me, it's a matter of coming up with the most random ideas and putting them down in such a way that people might possibly find amusing. Consequently, my comique very rapidly throws random things at people and has random events occur in quick succession. Oddly enough, the characters seem to take it all in stride, which is more than I can say for the readers....

I pretty much break most of the rules and run contrariwise to most peoples' advice here, and my comique seems to do pretty well...

For example, I do not use ink pens. I use the eraser only sparingly, and I don't use a ruler. I sketch in the margins of my homework, mostly, and draw/handwrite most of the strips on cheap 9" x 12" paper that I steal from the art room. You don't need any of these, really.

If you've got a good enough concept and good enough art skills, you can make it.

@~AoD

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 12:04 pm

axonite wrote:Is there a "how not to submit to HNTRAC" category coming up?

In true HNTRAC fashion, it doesn't exist, so it is ultimately correct by definition.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 12:05 pm

Eh, don't get mad, but I just can't resist, what with Phalanx being a grammar nazi and all...

Phalanx wrote:Best idea is to write em down and look at em at leisure.

I had a submission for HNTRAC a week or two ago, but I put it in my pocket and forgot about it instead of scanning it and emailing it. Is there a "how not to submit to HNTRAC" category coming up?

I got new submissions too but I'm too lazy to add them myself and I don't wanna bother Teretrous to do that when I already have access to site...

Who needs to be consistent and introduce the reader slowly and thoughtfully?

Someone has to, because if we didn't, doing the oposite wouldn't be anything special.

Xmung · Post by **Xmung** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:23 pm

mcDuffies wrote:
I had a submission for HNTRAC a week or two ago, but I put it in my pocket and forgot about it instead of scanning it and emailing it. Is there a "how not to submit to HNTRAC" category coming up?
I got new submissions too but I'm too lazy to add them myself and I don't wanna bother Teretrous to do that when I already have access to site...

the epitome of how not to run a web comic - genius!

Demonologist_Rayne · Post by **Demonologist_Rayne** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 9:43 am

*sniff* My post has more than one page. I'm so happy. I would just like to thank all of those who have replied. You have all given me great advice. Thank you

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:43 am

Here. Let me help you get to the third page

Demonologist_Rayne · Post by **Demonologist_Rayne** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:52 am

How many does it take to get to another page?

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:55 am

probably just one more after this one.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 10:56 am

*walks into thread*
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
*walks out*

Demonologist_Rayne · Post by **Demonologist_Rayne** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 11:18 am

Does anyone know if the name "Short Attention Span" has been used for a comic? It was suggested i use that for a comic name.

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 11:25 am

Google it and see.
I doubt it though, it won't really matter though anyway.

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:22 am

Demonologist_Rayne wrote:Does anyone know if the name "Short Attention Span" has been used for a comic? It was suggested i use that for a comic name.

Ban the Basics is about genius students with really short attention spans. Of course, I started reading an never finished the archives. For some reason I couldn't stay focused long enough.
http://banthebasics.keenspace.com/

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:48 am

mcDuffies wrote:Get a big notebook with nice covers.

For some reason, that made me giggle.

Friend · Post by **Friend** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 5:22 am

And not just one nice cover, this thing's got covers! It's more covers than pages! You open it, and there's another cover! And another! And another! And each one nicer than the last!

McDuffies, you know I mean no offense at all when I say this but sometimes the fact that English is your second language sometimes makes for some great lines.
This still manages to crack me up. Second panel especially.

Chaos Cricket · Post by **Chaos Cricket** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:49 pm

Y'know, if you've got more ideas than you can reasonably cram into one comic, you could always do what Noise Monkey and I did--run several comics on the site at once. We've got three running right now--Vapor Lock, Crooked Halo, and Troubled Times. They're all completely different from each other, though they're all linked in little ways (a recurring character who seems to show up in all three from time to time, references to various things, etc.).

You could also set up a sort of collection of short-story comics, as it were. Rather than have one comic that incorporates all of your ideas, have a set of comics that tells one story. It could be five or six comics long, or it could be thirty, or it could be one hundred, just however many comics it takes to tell that story. Then start another story. You could link them by basically having them all be stories set in the same world, though not necessarily featuring the same characters. It could actually be rather clever, if you did it right.

Deathbringer · Post by **Deathbringer** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:42 pm

Heh, youre lucky, mate, when i startd Felney i had plenty of ideas to show up the racism and absurdity and stupidity of where i live, but after 3 years it has kind of worn thin. I did toy with the idea of a totally new comic starring me and my mates, with actual real people in it, not made-up characters, but i will probably make that totally seperatley and keep Felney the same. When i do have comic ideas they are often different things that would not fit in with Felney, even though that is my websites main attraction i doubt people ever venture further into my site to see my other comic strips that i make up, such as "Zombie shock massacre" and "Queer as fuck" (and some of "The fourth reich" should be going online soon..)

So..yeah, starting a comic is good if you have a TON of ideas and know that they wont run out qucikly

, as mine did (well to be fair i made them fairly consistently for about 2 years, then in 2003 it all went a bit wrong and most of the time i wasnt even posting comics, but fake newspapers)

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 10:23 am

"Zombie Shock Massacre" is the best name ever for a webcomic!

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