VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:[
Encroaching on personal space is a powerful influence technique. He looks either affectionate or authoritive, or both. You be the judge.
He looks very funny on the last image. As if he's saying "hey, can you hear me from up above?" Reminds me of one Harms' story where a guy insists on sticking his face into narrator's, even after the narrator starts running away.
The other guy, on the other hand, is obviously uncomfortable.
That my two main characters are in a romantic relationship with each other!
C'mon people it's impossible, sure they sleep in the SAME BED, and have known each other for a long time and are really close to each other, and one of them constantly compliments the other...
Not really annoying, but a lot of people thought Kai's hood was some sort of fluffy collar. It's Michelle's fault, really, because she drew it like a fluffy collar.
You're just jealous because you can't get away with speaking in the third person...
peterabnny wrote:You have to be careful with using friends like that in your comic. Even if you're best friends with them now, what will happen if you ever have a falling out in the future? You wouldn't want them to come back and make trouble for you because they had a cameo. That's what happened to me. In my "Girl's Night Out" serial from a few years ago, I have a few of my friends in it but unfortunately, in the time since, I had a falling out with one of them. If I ever want to reprint it anywhere, I'm going to have to redo some panels he appears in and "digitally erase" him out of the story. Now, I'd just as soon not use friends in any of my cartoons.
Some of the characters in my comics have traits that are loosely based off real people, but they're never a straight match. This makes it fairly easy to reproduce events that happen in real life without stepping on anyone's toes.
As for misconceptions about my comics, back when I ran How Not to Run a Comic, there were some people who really didn't get that the comics were supposed to be ironic, rather than simply terrible. I eventually got fed up with this and transferred most of the jokes I had planned for HNTRAC to Comic Creatorz, which is essentially the same concept minus the user-submitted portion.
What Lies Beyond - A Psychological Fantasy Novel
Stuff that updates sometimes:
I also did phbites.comicgenesis.com and hntrac.comicgenesis.com way back when.
Terotrous wrote:As for misconceptions about my comics, back when I ran How Not to Run a Comic, there were some people who really didn't get that the comics were supposed to be ironic, rather than simply terrible.
The problem is that people attempting to be ironically terrible frequently end up being just plain terrible.
"I've always been fascinated by failure!" -Charlie Brown
As for misconceptions about my comics, back when I ran How Not to Run a Comic, there were some people who really didn't get that the comics were supposed to be ironic, rather than simply terrible. I eventually got fed up with this and transferred most of the jokes I had planned for HNTRAC to Comic Creatorz, which is essentially the same concept minus the user-submitted portion.
I just read through half of Comic Creatorz, and the Dirk narrative is eerily similar to a comic I've been working on. It hits every trope so far; aimless adventurer starts at an inn, decides to raid the castle, meets the bored princess and helps her escape, gets chased by angry king's henchman, runs, town in peril.... I didn't realize I was such a hack! I guess I'll have to make up for it by stepping up the gratuitous nudity.
"Just because we're amateurs, doesn't mean our comics have to be amateurish." -McDuffies
Bustertheclown wrote:I just read through half of Comic Creatorz, and the Dirk narrative is eerily similar to a comic I've been working on. It hits every trope so far; aimless adventurer starts at an inn, decides to raid the castle, meets the bored princess and helps her escape, gets chased by angry king's henchman, runs, town in peril.... I didn't realize I was such a hack! I guess I'll have to make up for it by stepping up the gratuitous nudity.
Lol, that's quite an entertaining coincidence. I'd be curious to see your take on the theme. Dpes it also include amnesia? Can't ever have too much amnesia.
Really though, the way I write the Fantastacy storyline is that every 2 or 3 comics the plot should veer off in a random direction. It represents Dave's nonexistent attention span.
What Lies Beyond - A Psychological Fantasy Novel
Stuff that updates sometimes:
I also did phbites.comicgenesis.com and hntrac.comicgenesis.com way back when.
