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Speaking of artists who never change, let's see what today's Sluggy Freelance looks like yes, I said "today's Sluggy Freelance"  (okay it's from 1/10 but whatever) e: starting a new page with Sluggy, gently caress yeah
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How did he go from awful to OK to bland and bad again? Way back before his stories got convoluted beyond interpretation, he had a soft pencils phase that wasn't high art, but it was pleasant.
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Tiggum posted:How is it even possible to spend so much time doing something and not get better at it? He didn't want to draw, he wanted to make a comic. That's the difference, the drawing is the medium that conveys the joke rather than a craft itself to be honed.
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Jan 16, 2019 04:06
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Are there seriously only like, 30 people who were online back in the early aughts? plenty of us were online in the late 80s 
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Jan 16, 2019 04:15
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GET BACK IN THE HOME, GRANDPA! No pudding for you.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:OMFE! I had conflated memories of that one with the sample Griggs comic. I just remembered the short run he did of Barbarian Diary but all the img links are broken. Rose MArie is in the zip https://transfernow.net/21dw13r815bz
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Tiggum posted:How is it even possible to spend so much time doing something and not get better at it? Copy-paste for decades I'd guess.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Speaking of artists who never change, let's see what today's Sluggy Freelance looks like Oh wow, Sasha's still alive! She disppeared from Sluggy like 20 years ago and I stopped reading soon thereafter. Why do I remember that??? Or maybe that's not even her! I don't even know. Has anything truly significant development occurred in this comic since the 90s? I mean, it was astounding how many dramatically convoluted storylines could happen in one comic for years on end with absolutely no lasting consequences whatsoever, but maybe things changed in the most recent 17 years of the run. Maybe I should read the ~7000 strips in this series and catch up.
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A shitload of early 2000s webcomics were basically aping newspaper comics that the authors presumably dreamed of writing at some point and crashed into how they don't want anything that doesn't appeal to sundowning octogenarians. They tended to end up with the same formulas of reliable blandness, copypasting and status quo. How Not To Run A Comic hasn't aged too well, but still is a pretty good showcase of all the many, many ways that comics went horribly wrong. 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A shitload of early 2000s webcomics were basically aping newspaper comics that the authors presumably dreamed of writing at some point and crashed into how they don't want anything that doesn't appeal to sundowning octogenarians. They tended to end up with the same formulas of reliable blandness, copypasting and status quo. Plus they were usually done by tech nerds. The quality started to rise quickly when >90% of the young people started to spend their free time on the Internet.
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Kennel posted:Plus they were usually done by tech nerds. The quality started to rise quickly when >90% of the young people started to spend their free time on the Internet. I wouldn't say 'quickly'. Though webcomics tend to demonstrate a principle I've observed and participated in: If you put out content on a regular basis, no matter how outdated, repetitive or otherwise utterly mediocre it is, you are guaranteed to attract a following out of sheer familiarity if nothing else.
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Tiggum posted:How is it even possible to spend so much time doing something and not get better at it? Ask your post history 
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Bad Sneakers posted:Ask your post history You should have seen what my posting was like ten years ago.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I wouldn't say 'quickly'. Yeah some of them have an audience of maybe five people, but those five people are really really into it
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Phlegmish posted:Yeah some of them have an audience of maybe five people, but those five people are really really into it Thinking more a few hundred people who just really can't be arsed to clear out their favourites to spare fifteen seconds of their daily routine.
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Jan 16, 2019 17:58
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Yo kranks post your filthy rear end favorites do it
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Jan 16, 2019 18:11
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Karate Bastard posted:Yo kranks post your filthy rear end favorites do it   
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I'm the Imported IE Toolbar Favorites
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:GET BACK IN THE HOME, GRANDPA! No pudding for you. I know right? But, in the early 2000s I was absolutely refreshing webcomics on the daily. Sluggy Freelance, College Roomies From Hell, Joe Average, Achewood, and so on. I have a Sluggy shirt somewhere still that I got in, like, 2002. They probably still sell it
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Jan 16, 2019 18:48
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New Page 1 and index used to be amazing but both lost their edge after 9/11
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That list is loving terrible man
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Brewmaster posted:That list is loving terrible man 
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finalellipsis posted:New Page 1 and index used to be amazing but both lost their edge after 9/11 I'm partial to Information, I can't get enough of that stuff
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IE for mac was discontinued 15+ years ago so my age at the time at least partially accounts for its terribleness.
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was road waffles the one where a guy and girl hitch hiker meet up and one of them is running from an ex who's angry about a stolen oasis record? and then there's a bunch of poo poo about the world ending? via a paintball war? I think someone loses an eye and then a vampire replaces it by cutting out his own eye. Also Bob The Angry Flower is good poo poo. edit- also thank you for the atomic toy archive
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Jan 16, 2019 19:10
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no prob 10 similarities between Road Waffles & Rick and Morty 
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Jan 16, 2019 19:21
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me, on my death bed: you kids should read some webcomics
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:me, on my death bed: heh, loss edit
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me, on my death bed: *shits pants audibly* enjoy inheriting my crushing debt losers
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people say "make poo poo regularly and it'll succeed via inertia" but that dead rear end doesn't apply to webcomics, make poo poo regularly enough and you will go loving bonkers and decide that 1) everything needs to be megaverses 2) my gag a day gamer comic absolutely needs a lovecraftian abomination metaplot 3) i can do two comics at once i'll just make multiple versions of everyone 3) hey we can get koreans to animate this and make big bucks on youtube 4) stop help where did my fanbase go?
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Remember when goons drove Faithmouse insane and then the artist got an account to crazypost on these here forums? Are they still around? I forget what their account was
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That's some solid advice right there. Wow this thread took a quick turn to the awesome didn't it? Agc jfc
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I have all Sinfest comics from 2000 to 2006 on my hard drive. Don't gently caress with me.
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man i cant wait for Theophilus to tell his christian friends about his enema fetish
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I think Theophilus will find that not actually having a torso or indeed intestines is the cause of his crippling digestive issues.
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Paladinus posted:I have all Sinfest comics from 2000 to 2006 on my hard drive. Don't gently caress with me. the thing about most webcomics which lose themselves to batshit insanity is that the point where things go south is rather genreally visible. with sinfest i just . . . what? how did it become this weird anti-porn screed. in 2018. dude is one of the oldest in the game at this point and NOW he's going batty? why.
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