April 16th, 2009
Adventure #260: Brightleaf and The Sojourn into Web2.0
So I was looking at a few webcomics my friends have been running, and just webcomics in general, and I just got to thinking that, perhaps with the discipline I’ve built up with The Daily Odyssey, that maybe I’d be able to actually pull off a full fledged serial webcomic!
My only fear is that I’d also be writing a full story, and that I might miss the ability to play around and experiment with my style and colors, like today for example! I just had this idea out of the blue, to see how fast I could churn out a comic of this size. I think I pulled it off relitively well.
So here’s the question I pose, what do you guys think of dedicated story webcomic VS. journal webcomics. YOU DECIDE!
April 17th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Absolutely go for it. 100%
April 17th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Do it!
If you still keep the journal comics, you can still play around with coloring that way.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Dude totally…..WHY HAVEN’T YOU YET?
April 17th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
As Michael Ian Black would say, “Go for it!” Journal comics are great for building discipline, but they hardly build your writing and storytelling abilities. Not to mention that’s it’s easy to keep drawing the same things over and over in a journal comic and not push things like layouts, camera angles, etc.
That being said, I also have a 50-150 page comic I’m developing that Matthew is pushing me to make it into a serial webcomic. I’m against doing that in this instance because the pacing is such that I can’t imagine how every single page is going to be interesting to the reader. And every single page has to be at least a little interesting since viewers only get to see one page every few days. So I guess if you’re looking to do it to get more readers, you should consider if your story will still play out well one page at a time.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Do it!
Also, if you still want to experiment with style and color, you could probably hang onto the journal comic for that. If it’s not too much?
April 17th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
This is Brett,
My only problem is I really could only do one or the other. And the amount of other projects, so that’s why its still on the back burner.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Last panel! Wop wop…
Awesome!
April 17th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
I’ll vote for story to be like everybody else!
April 17th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
do it man that would be awesome
April 18th, 2009 at 1:02 am
Seriously, go for the story!
April 18th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I actually prefer the journal comics. D:
Your life IS a wonderfully drawn grandiose story
April 18th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
burn Steph at the staaaaaake
April 18th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
You should totally do it.