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Rotten Red Rod posted:A "trick"? You could read only the ones that have been completed, I guess, but there's really no such thing as a good webcomic that doesn't update slowly... It's kind of the nature of the medium that it takes a while to do. While subjective, I did try and come up with a good quality comic that updated a couple of times a week and couldn't, really. The ones I read now are all once a week or less.
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Dawgstar posted:While subjective, I did try and come up with a good quality comic that updated a couple of times a week and couldn't, really. The ones I read now are all once a week or less. Edit: That said, Chris Hastings is some kind of comic demigod, so it's not fair to compare other people to his standard.
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Kill Six Billion Demons also updates at around twice a week, with occasional delays, and is extremely fast-paced in terms of writing. I don't mean that there aren't long-ish scenes but the action and events are fast and furious.
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Xun posted:Is there a trick to finding webcomics that don't seem to move at a snails pace? I feel like I keep finding these cool, well drawn stories with interesting premises and when I reach the end I realize it's been going for multiple years and still hasn't finished the setup. Short, self-contained comics that are actually gonna go somewhere any time soon tend to do that, and then they're over. People don't tend to talk about finished webcomics, even good ones, as much as they do this week's developments in the 14-years-running epic that dares to ask the question what if orcs... were just misunderstood... and so the ones you're likely to find on a thread or a webring or whatever are the ones that've been spinning their wheels for 4000 pages or go on six-month hiatus every other page. Also people who can write AND draw AND plan and execute a large project to the end generally don't need to give that poo poo away for free. if you wanna narrow it down to a genre or something we could probably recommend a fair few finished comics. Dawgstar posted:While subjective, I did try and come up with a good quality comic that updated a couple of times a week and couldn't, really. The ones I read now are all once a week or less. Trixie Slaughteraxe and Vattu (off and on) A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Nov 30, 2018 |
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Nov 30, 2018 21:52
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Trixie Slaughteraxe and Vattu (off and on) Vattu might update a couple of times a week (sometimes) but it is absolutely dragging along at a snails pace. I keep up with it but it just seems so slow.
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Nov 30, 2018 22:26
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it had a loooooong setup but poo poo sure as hell seems to be kicking off now. Dahm's stuff always feels really slow but he's one of the few webcomics guys who actually does manage to tell stories hundreds of pages long and then actually finish them.
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Nov 30, 2018 22:29
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Skin Horse updates six days a week!
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Nov 30, 2018 22:44
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Remember when Dominic Deegan updated five days a week? The mock thread was the most fun I've ever had riffing on anything.
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Nov 30, 2018 22:53
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I generally like sci-fi or fantasy stuff, not really sure if there are more specific genres I could describe but modern-day SoL type things don't really interest me. I'm currently following gunnerkrig court and kill 6 billion demons.
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Dec 1, 2018 00:47
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Dawgstar posted:While subjective, I did try and come up with a good quality comic that updated a couple of times a week and couldn't, really. The ones I read now are all once a week or less. a ghost story, never satisfied, gunnerkrigg, monster pulse, uh, e: right ksbd is like biweekly innit
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I haven't read Stand Still, Stay Silent in a long time but the writer/artist cranked them out with demonic speed considering the high quality of the artwork.
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Geomancing posted:I haven't read Stand Still, Stay Silent in a long time but the writer/artist cranked them out with demonic speed considering the high quality of the artwork. Sundberg is an impossible inkwitch and nobody knows how she's possible. Same goes for Abaddon.
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Is their output really that much greater than your average gainfully employed comics pro? Not trying to diminish their work, I'm genuinely curious.
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Typical Pubbie posted:Is their output really that much greater than your average gainfully employed comics pro? Not trying to diminish their work, I'm genuinely curious. The thing to consider is that almost all professional comic artists are working as one part of a team, while most webcomic artists do everything themselves. Abbadon doesn't have a separate colorist or letterer, for example. By that standard, they're doing at least comparable, if not way more work than people working for the big two.
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Begemot posted:The thing to consider is that almost all professional comic artists are working as one part of a team, while most webcomic artists do everything themselves. Abbadon doesn't have a separate colorist or letterer, for example. By that standard, they're doing at least comparable, if not way more work than people working for the big two. Also there's all the non-comic work involved- site stuff, store stuff, cons, other freelance work that actually pays, patreon stuff, etc. It's a lot.
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modern capitalism is especially crushing outside the limited shelter provided by wage slavery :v
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Dec 1, 2018 04:39
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Webcomics are socialism.
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Dec 1, 2018 05:39
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But I thought webcomics were supposed to be bad
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Begemot posted:The thing to consider is that almost all professional comic artists are working as one part of a team, while most webcomic artists do everything themselves. Abbadon doesn't have a separate colorist or letterer, for example. By that standard, they're doing at least comparable, if not way more work than people working for the big two. Also how often do cape comics actually look like any given page of either of those? Their daily schedule and production rate might be pretty normal for, like, mangaka, but definitely not anyone working 9-to-5
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Xun posted:I generally like sci-fi or fantasy stuff, not really sure if there are more specific genres I could describe but modern-day SoL type things don't really interest me. I'm currently following gunnerkrig court and kill 6 billion demons. it’s finished but if you haven’t read It Hurts!! then read It Hurts!!
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Tollymain posted:modern capitalism is especially crushing outside the limited shelter provided by wage slavery :v For sure, but there's a certain amount of pride in looking at a stack of books and thinking "haha cool I made these" and I can't get that anywhere else. Is that enough to keep me awake til 4am making pages multiple times a week? apparently, yes
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make sure yall get your 7-9 hours of sleep tho cause aint nothing worth the longterm effects of that
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@ dawgstar add widdershins to that list
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Dec 1, 2018 12:20
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Oh heck yeah, heard too much about people dying at 50 after working on manga on 3 hours sleep a night to gently caress up in that particular manner 
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Tollymain posted:a ghost story, never satisfied, gunnerkrigg, monster pulse, uh, 'godslave', 'never satisfied', 'peritale', 'sleepless domain', and 'vainglorious' are all biweekly, 'verse' has been updating pretty reliably recently looking thru my rss feed to remind myself of biweeklies and jeez its a freaking graveyard in there
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Kojiro posted:Oh heck yeah, heard too much about people dying at 50 after working on manga on 3 hours sleep a night to gently caress up in that particular manner sounds like an upside to me
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PMush Perfect posted:Remember when Dominic Deegan updated five days a week? The mock thread was the most fun I've ever had riffing on anything. DD used to do seven days a week, and the Sunday one would be a marker-colored panel. Mookie dropped that near the end, and I don't blame him for wanting some rest time. It was also clearly loving whatever semblance of pacing the comic had because he's regularly stall for big reveals on his colored panel day. iirc from the comic collections people posted in the thread, he'd end up printing the colored pages in black and white anyway.
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Kojiro posted:Oh heck yeah, heard too much about people dying at 50 after working on manga on 3 hours sleep a night to gently caress up in that particular manner this is my retirement plan
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love dying and being dead
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if we try real hard we can make the coming decades less lovely but theyre still gonna suck live hard get out early
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It turns into a choice between elaborate pages and more thought-out plots and smaller, simpler pages and weird half-baked plotes. Gives you respect for newspaper comic creators, or even people who try to carry the torch of newspaper comics on the internet. Like the Kevin and Kell guy is weird with his world where murder is rampant (and now a character is getting charged in court for all his one-off gag murders? Weird) but he also runs two other comics at the same time and it looks like they all update daily.
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theres also the tom siddells and ashley copes of the world where like, i suspect they actually dont have lives lmao
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SlothfulCobra posted:It turns into a choice between elaborate pages and more thought-out plots and smaller, simpler pages and weird half-baked plotes. Gives you respect for newspaper comic creators, or even people who try to carry the torch of newspaper comics on the internet. the kevin and kell guy takes like half an hour tops per comic, that leaves plenty of time in his day to do six simultaneous strips and still have lured some eight-year-olds into his murder van by bedtime
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my webcomic is like a child to me in that it has gestated inside me for many years and feeds on my fluids and sometimes it slithers out and just when i think it's been born it slithers back in and resumes its position in utero
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i think they call those tapeworms
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SlothfulCobra posted:It turns into a choice between elaborate pages and more thought-out plots and smaller, simpler pages and weird half-baked plotes. Gives you respect for newspaper comic creators, or even people who try to carry the torch of newspaper comics on the internet.
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Elysiume posted:You aren't allowed to kill and eat people you know in K&K. How well do you have to know them?
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So uh..... apparently the Erfworld guy was trying to pay for various serious expenses (medical, long-distance moves, correcting years of tax filings, etc.) by having his webcomic's fans run bitcoin miners and he isn't doing too hot after the crash finally happened: https://www.erfworld.com/blog/view/61963/state-of-the-erf-part-2
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I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad. The buttcoins I'm not mining are the best I ever had.
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