We’re back, guys. Send your stories in to me at Ari Collins at gmail dot com.
New story is here: http://55aday.blogspot.com/2009/07/last-man-on-earth.html Been working on it a looong time, but I think I finally got it right.
Now I’ve just gotta work on redesigning the site. And figuring out what to do with the forum. And… writing a new story for tomorrow. That hopefully won’t take months to work on like the last one.
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I’ve had print comics on the brain recently, and I’ve gotten to thinking: creating a print comic is an involved process, from the creation to the printing to the distribution and promotion. It costs to create a physical, tangible comic–an investment of both time and effort. Creators and publishers alike want to ensure a good return on their investment; they make an effort to avoid bad ideas and to develop good ideas through the editorial process. My Deadpool comics credit a massive creative team in each issue, from directors to writers to letterers to inkers and colorists. Each person brings his own unique talents to the project, along with a silly nickname. But the silly nickname is beside the point.
Webcomics, on the other hand, don’t have such an entry bar. (Again, I’m talking about quality, not the silly nicknames.) The low cost of online distribution allows anyone to publish his comics to a site or blog with very little effort. Further, strips can exist on the web that would never get past the editorial process–crude and sketchy trainwrecks drawn in MS Paint, or story-based comics with shoddy characterization and no attention to plot. The upshot of all this is that any comic committed to print will possess a bare minimum of quality that the average webcomic has no compulsion to match, which leads us to the question:
If print comics tend to be better–then why web?
me: Nervous about driving today.
Haven’t driven in 5 years.
And that drive actually ended pretty badly.
The gas is on the left, break on the right?
Robert: Yes.
Yes it is.
me: That’s about all I remember.
Red is stop, green is go, yellow is go faster.
(Maybe it’s a good thing I’m not learning from my dad this time around.)
Robert: (By the way, you got the pedals reversed if you weren’t kidding. It pains me to lose this potential source of comedy.)
me: Goddamnit.
I wasn’t kidding.
Robert: then ari collins it is my honor as your sponsor to award you with the 4-day token of not playing WoW
“No, no, no, no, no. There is no computer. There’s no database, there’s no network, there’s no one answering the questions.” Charlie scowled and lit his third cigarette, then started violently rubbing his temples.
Was brought to you by odd stains near my bed, which made me wonder if someone had died there, which made me wonder what it would be like to have goggles that you could set to literally any setting, as in “Highlight areas in which someone has died/where there has been a dead body.”
I went less morbid and more loss-of-privacy. But that’s where it came from. You’re welcome, I know you wanted to know.
The first thing they teach you at the Academy is the importance of responsible use of the Goggles.
The second thing they teach you is that they’ll kill you instantly if you breathe to a soul what the Goggles really do.
Then they hand them over to the fresh young recruits and let them see for themselves.
See the whole week-in-review comic at TWIW!
Co-written by Jackson Ferrell and Eli Parker; illustrated by Jackson Ferrell
Unwinder belongs to Unwinder’s Tall Comics
Sara Peterson belongs to Nobody Scores
Memnon Vanderbeam belongs to Starslip
Mike Warner wants you to die in a fire
And I’m going to tell you ALLLLL about it. In seventeen days.
