The team is cranking out great story flow and art! I really like where this is headed. Really interesting how 7 creators can work together. Worth a read! The message is great too!
Thanks Peter... I think it will live its life where it is. Maybe its next time around it could move, but its good where it is. Can't wait for your fun as well!
Good luck on the web comic jam. My favorite fruit preserve is strawberry. However, I couldn't make up what the favorites of the participants were. Perhaps I'm just too dense, but I couldn't distinguish the particular flavor of jam in each strip. Anyway, break a leg and I hope you'll collect some fine appetizers for bread and toast. deviantART muro drawing
Neat!!! LOL Thanks Rene! It's just a fun thing Ted Seko got me started on. The story is getting interesting, and may even have a worthwhile message, so far. Also, its more work organizing than actually drawing for me at this time. One good thing about it already is that I'm getting a little informal taste of handling a webcomic. So far, I can tell you that WP hosted Wordpress is not the best suited platform. Now I see why all these friends of ours use something like Comixpress. I get to learn a little about that side of things.
No, free hosted Wordpress is pretty useless for publishing web comics. If you want to go free, I suggest something like Tumblr. However, the community over there wants shock effect, and isn't very interested in slice of life, or normal everyday stuff.
If you go for the paid route, be prepared for outages, because keeping a site on a shared server in the air is tricky. There is the constant attempt of hacking into your site, and the crashing of servers in a data center. This mean making regular backups to your own harddrive, lurking Wordpress.org forums for problems, and keeping the software up-to-date sensibly (always have a recent backup to roll back to). And keep engaged with your readers, but manage any misbehavior with rigor and restraint.
All well and good. Road full of hazards... not ready for the big time LOL. I thought of tumblr too, or even drunk duck, or one of those, but for our purposes, which are more of an experiment, its either our current situation, or a full ext hosed comicpress thing. So I'm sticking with the current setup, until I ease into something better. Time, my friend, time! And fun along the way. Rather learn some artful things than get full techie, don't you think? (well, at this point )
That is an alternative, but I would probably miss the web page thing. I'll get it eventually. For now, its ok where it is. I suppose getting a domain, or domains, sometime in the future, will open up better web-page crafting capabilities. But I believe taking advantage of whatever services we've got available at the time will serve its purpose. There's lots of possible avenues, but I'm sticking to exercising more art learning than communications channels learning. Like you, I think I'm becoming more worried about learning how to craft a story. At least this is giving me a somehow remote taste of it. The fun of exploration. Thanks for the alternative... mail chimp, and their like, could be useful tools at some point.
I've just heard this on a podcast: make life for your characters hard, so hard you wanna cry, and then make it even harder. People like to see others in dire straits, they can't get enough of seeing others suffer and feel like the world has forsaken them. Happy stories are considered boring, as are everyday stories, unless those stories are about how bad things can get.
Hehehe... I think I've heard that podcast. I suppose folks identify with these characters, and that's the key to hook the audience. Everyone suffers, so it feels good to know you're not alone? I suppose its a common trait in humanity.
As far as where its home should be, I like it where it is.
Can't wait for your fun as well!
deviantART muro drawing
Thanks Rene!
It's just a fun thing Ted Seko got me started on. The story is getting interesting, and may even have a worthwhile message, so far.
Also, its more work organizing than actually drawing for me at this time.
One good thing about it already is that I'm getting a little informal taste of handling a webcomic. So far, I can tell you that WP hosted Wordpress is not the best suited platform. Now I see why all these friends of ours use something like Comixpress. I get to learn a little about that side of things.
If you go for the paid route, be prepared for outages, because keeping a site on a shared server in the air is tricky. There is the constant attempt of hacking into your site, and the crashing of servers in a data center. This mean making regular backups to your own harddrive, lurking Wordpress.org forums for problems, and keeping the software up-to-date sensibly (always have a recent backup to roll back to). And keep engaged with your readers, but manage any misbehavior with rigor and restraint.
Time, my friend, time! And fun along the way. Rather learn some artful things than get full techie, don't you think? (well, at this point
But I believe taking advantage of whatever services we've got available at the time will serve its purpose.
There's lots of possible avenues, but I'm sticking to exercising more art learning than communications channels learning.
Like you, I think I'm becoming more worried about learning how to craft a story. At least this is giving me a somehow remote taste of it. The fun of exploration.
Thanks for the alternative... mail chimp, and their like, could be useful tools at some point.
Make them suffer, make them bleed.
I suppose folks identify with these characters, and that's the key to hook the audience. Everyone suffers, so it feels good to know you're not alone? I suppose its a common trait in humanity.