Webcomics? HERE?!!

For years I've been watching as site after site, person after person, steps half-assed into the webcomic game. It's just a standard of the internet, and I can't seem to escape it. Anywhere I wonder I find wide-eyed furries bouncing from frame to frame in a desperate plea to draw on their cuteness factor.  I see pixelated parodies of video game classics. I see toys bent over with word bubbles protruding from their plastic posteriors.

There's a failed webcomic for ever un-updated blog in the galaxy. I've toyed with the idea over the years, but usually come back to the fact that I have very little artistic talent. There was a time, many years ago, when I still had all the "when I grow up" to spare, that I wanted to be an artist when I grew up. Then I grew up, and realized my talents were limited. I wound up on and off community college for Web Design, eventually coming to realize it's not something I want to do for a living and I suck at programming, anyway. But I got a lot of practice in on a program called Fireworks that I found much easier for what I do than Photoshop.

Lately it's been far too cold to think about doing anything outside that doesn't involve keeping myself warm and fed. Instead I've been bundled up inside trying to beat my cabin fever by making vector art in Fireworks. I haven't evolved much past chunky cartoony images, but I enjoy making them. I've been looking for reasons to make new pictures, and have decided to join the ranks of the failed webcomics. That's not to say I plan on giving up, it's just that webcomics tend to have a high fatality rate, so I'm not expecting any miracles.

From here on until I get bored and stop, Wednesdays will be Webcomic Wednesday, and you have something to look forward to on hump day. I'm big on keeping things short, so the majority will be 1-panel comics. Hope to keep you entertained!

Click here for my first installation.

 

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  • 2/7/2007 12:23 PM Julie wrote:
    I love the one panel web comic! I hope to see more of them. : )
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  • 2/7/2007 3:27 PM JLAJRC wrote:
    I also love the one-panel strip. Reminds me of the funnier "Mother Goose and Grimm" strips. Also, the Farside.
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  • 2/10/2007 12:05 PM Wes wrote:
    Fireworks, eh? I have never heard of this program! It's turning out good results thus far, though -- looking forward to your next doodle. Or may I suggest toy comics with girlified Prime and Easter Vader? Vector graphics are excellent for dialogue bubbles.
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