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Can I just say I found this panel in today's Girl Genius update hilarious? I'm sure I put into words why, though. Edit: Keep walking, pal - this throuple's full.
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Looks interesting and weird. https://witch-hunter-phobos.the-comic.org/
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Mar 28, 2024 06:53
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Emzedoh posted:Can I just say I found this panel in today's Girl Genius update hilarious? Is it because it's Foglio art at its muppetest?
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Mar 28, 2024 19:07
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Very possible.
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Mar 29, 2024 01:10
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Emzedoh posted:Can I just say I found this panel in today's Girl Genius update hilarious? Yeah, I really enjoyed that panel too.
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Mar 29, 2024 03:50
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I found this neat thing, which seems to be undergoing a site move at the moment. Magic Mimic is about a mimic in a dungeon that wants to become a human so that they can go out and explore the world. It's got a lovely art style, and I wanna see it continue.
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Apr 1, 2024 01:03
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That's a webtoon alright. (e: that sounded more dismissive than I mean to be. It's not bad! But man I still always struggle with the webtoon style.)
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Apr 1, 2024 02:33
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Very random question - does anybody know the name of that one webcomic artist who does/did verbose high-concept comedies with an MS-Paint art style that sort of looked like GoAnimate? There was one about a woman running for president in a fantasy world and one about a guy who gets a chip in his brain that lets him see through the eyes of his alternate selves. FAKE EDIT: Did some googling and his name is Øyvind Thorsby. His stuff is worth a read, incredibly enjoyable and unique.
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Apr 1, 2024 03:47
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Every time Hitmen for Destiny gets mentioned in the thread, someone goes back and reads it again.
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I've been enjoying a comic called Tamberlane lately. Conceptually its a psuedonedieval "furries find and raise abandoned human child but clearly live under some sort of weird information-control tyrannical government with classism and racism thrown in", but the actual appeal for me is mostly just that I'm a sucker for stories about parenthood, and the struggle to be a good parent even when you're a fuckup of a person, and thats like half of what it is so far. Wish there were other webcomics doing that, but this one scratches the itch alrigjt for now. And the art is pretty good, too.
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Apr 1, 2024 06:10
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Today's Wilde Life got a "fuckin' finally!" from me, hah. Been waiting for this!
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GlyphGryph posted:Today's Wilde Life got a "fuckin' finally!" from me, hah. Been waiting for this! I mean, yeah, but also how many times is this exact same thing going to happen? I was excited for something new maybe.
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Apr 4, 2024 19:32
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This is the first time we've seen them show up for someone other than Oliver, isn't it? They've been surprisingly absent in most other scenarios where Cliff was actually in danger that I could remember.
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Joe England, skilled ink webcartoonist of Olde Webcomic Zebra Girl, has recently launched his new project, Witch Warp. He is also apparently in a fairly dire financial situation, so if you have ever enjoyed his work it's likely worth chipping in to support him.
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Discendo Vox posted:Hello thread, I am trying to remember the name of a webcomic I encountered in the early 00s. It centered around students in a gifted program at a school, and one of its main features was that it had been running for seemingly ever, and had a very extensive cast of characters. It had a pretty basic side-on perspective, art that was maybe two or three steps up from Foxtrot, and an incredibly consistent, oldschool style. From four years ago, I am cleaning up the thousands of old bookmarks I have lying around and and identified this as CrebHeads, a.k.a. Ban the Basics, a comic which apparently just vanished as so many such things do. It did at least apparently produce a weird meta feedback loop of comic searching at one point. edit: whoops, doublepostin'. My bad. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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Discendo Vox posted:Joe England, skilled ink webcartoonist of Olde Webcomic Zebra Girl, has recently launched his new project, Witch Warp. He is also apparently in a fairly dire financial situation, so if you have ever enjoyed his work it's likely worth chipping in to support him. Thanks for the heads up, I loved Zebra girl and have been excited for this. Definitely gonna drop some money his way, he deserves it.
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The author of Magefront just launched a new comic about vampires in the Victorian era and I'm liking it so far: https://concerningblood.the-comic.org/
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Sounds like the vertical reading format isn't the only reason to not be 100% entranced with webtoon: https://www.comicsbeat.com/webtoon-originals-contract-draws-criticism-from-creators quote:Regarding the Reddit post’s claim that upon signing with WEBTOON, the creator would be ceding ownership of their publishing rights to WEBTOON, according to the spokesperson, WEBTOON has an option to acquire the print publishing rights for a limited amount of time. Should that option be exercised, they will acquire the rights and creators will receive standard industry compensation, in accordance with business practices common in print book publishing in N. America.
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Yeah, the Boyfriends creator was talking about how working with Webtoon has been completely miserable but they can't withdraw without ending the comic because Webtoon owns part of the IP.
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It honestly explains all the super extended hiatuses comics have taken, including Batman: Wayne Family Adventures. To add on to what Neito posted, they also are like most companies and pay their translators beans.
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The author of Never Satisfied announced that he is not going to continue the comic as it was. https://www.neversatisfiedcomic.com/ He answered some spoiler plot questions about the plot on his tumblr, like Morgan aka Lucy went full Husk mode in the mysterious flashback, and had an obsidian stone shoved into their eye to eat up the husk magic and that's why Lucy is magicless and wears an eyepatch, but things like the ending remains unanswered because the author doesn't know either. I appreciate the stern warnings not to draw a longform comic without an outline or at least plans for the endgame.
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So that comic will never resolve its plot threads? Talk about normative determinism 
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isasphere posted:The author of Never Satisfied announced that he is not going to continue the comic as it was. Mind giving a link to the tumblr stuff?
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isasphere posted:The author of Never Satisfied announced that he is not going to continue the comic as it was. Unfortunately I think this was kind of coming giving that they already scrapped and rebooted it at least once for the exact same reason. It's a shame, because both incarnations were really fun!
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https://ohcorny.tumblr.com/ seems to be the author's tumblr, just keep scrolling down for a bunch of Q&A stuff
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Yes, that's the tumblr. The answers are not too far into the archive, about 5 or 6 pages in if you browse by pages?
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i am satisfactorily vindicated that my confusion over LaPointe's purpose and character was accurate, as the Q&A indicates they were originally a cameo character that got hastily retconned/retooled and the author never actually had a goal in mind for them. between that and Rin becoming a husk apparently being a spur-of-the-moment choice he had so little idea how to deal with it killed the comic, it looks the author literally didn't give any of the ostensible villains a plan? which yeah, probably a bad idea for any story.
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This is the second time Never Satisified stopped, isn't it?
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Rexxed posted:This is the second time Never Satisified stopped, isn't it? Yes. Though the last time it was stopped, it was restarted with a completely new version of the story. This time the comic looks to just be completely over. They already have another comic they are working on instead. Webcomics are pretty difficult and I'm sure this was a really good learning experience. JuniperCake fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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its a very accurate story title
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he summarizes it pretty well in that last update: he was an extremely different person when the comic started, in college and without any experience writing anything for real. it would've been nice for it to have wrapped up somehow, but he started without any overarching plans on where the plot would go or even how details and mysteries he introduced would've been wrapped up. it's a lesson learned and i have high hopes for all his future projects
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i redrew/rewrote the first chapter of my webcomic and now its on sale in a .pdf format for PWYW (suggested $5). download it here first chapter with the original art
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flatluigi posted:he summarizes it pretty well in that last update: he was an extremely different person when the comic started, in college and without any experience writing anything for real. it would've been nice for it to have wrapped up somehow, but he started without any overarching plans on where the plot would go or even how details and mysteries he introduced would've been wrapped up. it's a lesson learned and i have high hopes for all his future projects Yeah I kept up with Never Satisfied and I think it was settling into an interesting nook, but it took a long time to get there and I can't imagine how much more time and energy would be needed to push the comic forward and stuff. Another decade or two? It's funny-but-tragic how many people get ideas of doing fantasy epic comics in college and then the immense weight of that commitment hits years down the line. Best of luck to him on his new project though.
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fun hater posted:i redrew/rewrote the first chapter of my webcomic and now its on sale in a .pdf format for PWYW (suggested $5). The preview images look great!
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YggiDee posted:https://ohcorny.tumblr.com/ seems to be the author's tumblr, just keep scrolling down for a bunch of Q&A stuff quote:did you have any idea how a thierry/joe reunion was gonna go down (Personally hoping & praying Joe verbally beat his rear end for what he did to their adopted kiddo) quote:..how was lucy and seiji's date going to go? mind sharing your notes? quote:i cannot stress enough that where i stopped updating never satisfied is exactly where i stopped thinking about what came next. i do not even know what would have been on the next pages. it was a Hard stop.
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I felt this one on a spiritual level:quote:Anonymous asked: Like, genuinely, no insult here at all, I would have done the same regarding plot and worldbuilding, except I don't have even the discipline to have a finished page to post online.
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I’m glad Corny has learned one of the absolute oldest story telling lessons in the book, “the Mystery Box is a lovely way to write a television show or comic and it bites the author in the end every single loving time”
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Captain Oblivious posted:I’m glad Corny has learned one of the absolute oldest story telling lessons in the book, “the Mystery Box is a lovely way to write a television show or comic and it bites the author in the end every single loving time” Do you mean specifically the kind of mystery box show where there isn't actually a solution in mind at the start, or just any show driven by a weird mystery at the core? Because I can think of plenty of shows I'd call 'mystery boxes' that worked fine because they started with a clear idea what the solution would be.
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Joe Slowboat posted:Do you mean specifically the kind of mystery box show where there isn't actually a solution in mind at the start, or just any show driven by a weird mystery at the core? Because I can think of plenty of shows I'd call 'mystery boxes' that worked fine because they started with a clear idea what the solution would be. The former. The kind of story where you are asking interesting questions, usually at a rapid pace, but have no real notion what the answers are going to be. It’s easy to set up mysteries, much harder to pay them off.
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Joe Slowboat posted:Do you mean specifically the kind of mystery box show where there isn't actually a solution in mind at the start, or just any show driven by a weird mystery at the core? Because I can think of plenty of shows I'd call 'mystery boxes' that worked fine because they started with a clear idea what the solution would be. When people refer to "mystery box" writing it's usually a direct reference to a Ted Talk by JJ Abrams where he admitted that his technique for writing a successful show is to lure people in with promises of getting to see inside a metaphorical "mystery box" to get their attention and then keeping them engaged with promises of showing them what's in the box regardless of whether or not you actually thought about what you were going to put in there. It was his metaphor for writing in such a way as to string the audience along without necessarily having an actual story to tell. He talked about it like it was a career-changing life hack, and to a degree it was. In so far as it was him explaining how he took advantage of the naivety of audiences for trusting him not to be full of it, and built an entire incredibly successful career on basically the laziest suspense writing imaginable. Unfortunately by admitting this everybody pretty much realized he was a Fraud and now had video proof of how proud he was admitting it, so his mystery box writing trick no longer works. He still continued to write after giving that Ted Talk but he was no longer able to so nakedly rely on his gimmick. His works have not been able to reach the same levels of acclaim and cultural penetration as they did when people were willing to give his writing the benefit of the doubt.
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