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thrilla in vanilla posted:I read something once about how the characters in dumbing of age are based on Dave willis’s childhood imaginary friends. Then later he made porn of them to sell on slipshine. Pretty hilarious Aren't all original characters imaginary friends in a way? this is probably the dumbest post I've ever made edit: I know what you're talking about though and only like 2 are. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Nov 10, 2020 |
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Android Blues posted:Webcomics goons always get weird about artists drawing porn, and at this point it feels like a puritanical hangover from 2006. Literally every artist I know has drawn erotic art at some point - what's the big deal if someone wants to get paid for it?
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Nov 10, 2020 21:04
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so uh, did the willis porn actually make any money, or
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Nov 10, 2020 21:13
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i've never bought in but as far as i understand it slipshine is 'pay $x to get the entire library of what people have done for it' and not 'you pay individually for the artists you want'
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Nov 10, 2020 21:16
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He keeps making more, so I suspect it made quite a bit of money.
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Nov 10, 2020 21:17
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It seems pretty successful. If you read the comments below DoA strips there are a fair number of people talking about the Slipshine stuff. So, good for him!
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Nov 10, 2020 22:31
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Mr Phillby posted:I think part of it is that once something gets categorized as 'bad' in goons eyes an arms race starts over who can wring the most outrage/disgust out of every possible aspect of it regardless of wether its warranted or not and that kinda attitude leads to some people in the other thread getting upset at casual nudity but only when the bad comic does it. See also the Dominic Deegan thread which is like 70% performative outrage 30% good posting about a bad comic.
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Nov 10, 2020 22:43
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Captain Oblivious posted:See also the Dominic Deegan thread which is like 70% performative outrage 30% good posting about a bad comic. Maybe I'm just too old and tired for mock threads. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Nov 10, 2020 |
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Nov 10, 2020 23:06
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willis is making money on slipshine and the deegan thread is still going, I feel like the answer is clear I'm bringing back Mushroom Go but with tiddies
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Nov 10, 2020 23:13
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mock threads gets swept up in a kind of sad and pathetic need by people in said thread to be the Guy Who Hates The Thing The Most and twisting yourself in knots to come up with more and more contrived reasons as to why something is the WORST THING EVER instead of being normal by posting things that are kind of funny bc they kind of suck and going "lol" with your friends and then logging off and not trying to wring 3000 posts out of it we must end the mock thread. now is the time of the bemused appreciation thread
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fun hater posted:mock threads gets swept up in a kind of sad and pathetic need by people in said thread to be the Guy Who Hates The Thing The Most and twisting yourself in knots to come up with more and more contrived reasons as to why something is the WORST THING EVER instead of being normal by posting things that are kind of funny bc they kind of suck and going "lol" with your friends and then logging off and not trying to wring 3000 posts out of it
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fun hater posted:mock threads gets swept up in a kind of sad and pathetic need by people in said thread to be the Guy Who Hates The Thing The Most and twisting yourself in knots to come up with more and more contrived reasons as to why something is the WORST THING EVER instead of being normal by posting things that are kind of funny bc they kind of suck and going "lol" with your friends and then logging off and not trying to wring 3000 posts out of it
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Nov 10, 2020 23:28
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First, what was that one weirdly endearing furry comic about a half blind cat Knight with an ear cut off. I remember finding that in the old webcomic mock thread ages ago and everyone basically enjoying it since it seemed so genuine. Second There's a new Dominic Deegan ???
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Burkion posted:There's a new Dominic Deegan ??? Turn back now, while you still can.
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Nov 10, 2020 23:38
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PMush Perfect posted:You poor sweet summer child. I'm sorry we bespoiled you with this terrible knowledge. I was reading along thinking "Eh the old mock thread wasn't that hyperbolic, we got some good stuff like the upside down mouth edits and the story of Sigfried" and then started seeing people talk about *the old thread* instead of what they were talking about and my world got colder
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unrelated mostly to my previous post but i am disheartened to say that smackjeeves is beyond saving financially due to the actions of the company that purchased it some time ago that deliberately drove it into the ground (as it has done with previous acquisitions before). i'm pretty pissed off about this from an archival point of view: you can argue that there was little of value on smackjeeves because none of the "heavy-hitters" are hosted on there anymore (as far as i know) but it was, and is, historically one of the fledgling art sites of the early internet and i think it's horrible to have all that art lost no matter now amateur it is. this is so much early internet history down the drain! gone! lost! all these records of short lived trends, weird ideas that never quite got off the ground or webcomics that have been quietly chugging along for years with little fanfare are now just kaput. what a waste of talent and time. people's efforts deserve better than to just be hucked into a digital furnace. additionally, everyone has to start somewhere and free-hosting that is easy to navigate has become harder and harder to find as time marches on. webcomics as a creative field is becoming a little bit exclusive, although not intentionally. the platonic idea of a "successful webcomic" is one with slick, polished professional art so those are the ones that easily bubble to the top and therefore are the ones that everyone tries to emulate. but i hope there is still a cheap or free space for people who are not looking to be professionals or create professional grade art and want to make weird or amateur art freely without feeling like they need to live up to a specific standard of quality eventually. if it were up to me, i would hope some day there is a place like this again on the internet and it is fostered better than smackjeeves was. Burkion posted:First, what was that one weirdly endearing furry comic about a half blind cat Knight with an ear cut off. I remember finding that in the old webcomic mock thread ages ago and everyone basically enjoying it since it seemed so genuine. hark-o-vast i think! i believe its still running. e: also yes there is a new dominic deegan and he has his peepee out now
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comicfury.com is pretty decent as far as free hosts for weird comics go edit: while I'm at it comicad.net is not the worst stand-in for project wonderful
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Nov 10, 2020 23:43
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Once again Skin Horse is making fun of The X-Files and I am perennially here for that. I am also perennially here for the current going-ons being ludicrous to explain in/without context, such as the fact that Not Mulder and Not Scully have fallen in love with an uplifted rat while piloting an infiltration drone that is a clearly robotic rat drone.
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Nov 11, 2020 04:20
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Does anyone here remember DMFA? I wonder if it's ended by now. EDIT: Eeeeey, still going! Honestly, good for her.
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Nov 11, 2020 04:28
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I only just realized Joe England is still making new Zebragirl comics. Wild.
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PetraCore posted:Does anyone here remember DMFA? I wonder if it's ended by now.
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Nov 11, 2020 04:32
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Hostile V posted:Dan and Mab's Furry Adventure is never gonna die.
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fun hater posted:hark-o-vast i think! i believe its still running.
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The Legacy of Dominic Deegan is enormously boring unfortunately but I do admire Mookie for actually getting out of their comfort zone and following up a comic that was 80% word balloon with one about a deaf protagonist on top of going out of their way to include more detailed backgrounds. It's a shame that they've essentially made The Quiet Man: the webcomic so far in that Snout's Deafness isn't really represented very well and the biggest impact it has on the flow of the story is how every few pages snout will sit and write down an ongoing explanation in his diary because actually conveying the plot without words is actually pretty hard to do when your story is about the history of a bullshit magic man. In another sideplot Mookie has gotten into drawing hairy saytrs in the buff and is including nudity in the comic quite casually. He also got caught using GIS photo reference for some backgrounds but basically went "yeah but I'm bad at backgrounds so using reference helps me why do you care" before posting a page that was litterally Snout sitting in the cafe from Nighthawks. He also recently posted about not giving a poo poo if people don't like copy/paste before reusing basically half of a fight scene again wholesale. Doesn't give a poo poo Mookie actually kinda rules, but Snouts adventures are completely aimless and his balls aren't even that nice.
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Mr Phillby posted:Snouts adventures are completely aimless and his ball
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Sword Interval is BACK! Really hope Fleuter and family are doing OK since they lost their home in the wildfires.
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habeasdorkus posted:Sword Interval is BACK! Really hope Fleuter and family are doing OK since they lost their home in the wildfires. Yesss! I'm up for this finale. (And then a return to Derelict? Maybe? Please? How do I give him money to keep making Derelict)
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Drawing porn is fine, the only time I really remember it not being fine is when the porn involved something else horrible. Like when people found that Mookie and the Chugworth guy were into snuff.
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i think it was that he was commissioned to draw snuff, not into it himself.
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He was pretty "not into it" to make it the subject of a lot of comics before doing the whole completely snuff-focused one.
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Was he the one who had the semi-secret side account where he did comics about women turning into statues and then getting shattered or was that someone else? Cuz if so, I think "snuff" is putting it a little mildly, lmao.
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PMush Perfect posted:I stopped reading the thread (and the comic) because it eventually just got exhausting. It's not even constantly reaching new heights of batshit terrible any more. It's just consistently, unrelentingly bad, and there's only so many jokes you can make about that. There are no highs any more, no roller coasters of emotions, just "...yep, this sure is Mookie." And the constant, perpetual speculation and frankly creepy assumptions about his personal life and him as a person. That poo poo got the original DD mock thread closed, surprised it's gone on this long again.
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Safari Disco Lion posted:That poo poo got the original DD mock thread closed, surprised it's gone on this long again. It's not, though? We (as in, the current DD thread) only look at the comic and the blogs he publicly posts. We're good about shutting down speculation about his family and never, ever touch the poop.
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oriongates posted:I only just realized Joe England is still making new Zebragirl comics. Wild. No? Zebragirl finished its run. Once a year or so he might post a bonus panel or something but that's about it.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:It's not, though? We (as in, the current DD thread) only look at the comic and the blogs he publicly posts. We're good about shutting down speculation about his family and never, ever touch the poop. They said speculation about him and his personal life, which your creepy psychopath thread 100% does. Dominic Deegan is super bad but the lovely mock thread verges into 1984 5 minute hate territory with each person climbing over each other to make the most bombastic claims about how it's the worst thing ever. It's insufferable. Stop it. Get some help.
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Mercury Hat posted:Was he the one who had the semi-secret side account where he did comics about women turning into statues and then getting shattered or was that someone else? Cuz if so, I think "snuff" is putting it a little mildly, lmao. That was definitely the earlier type of stuff he did, yeah. I don't recall it being either a secret or a side account though.
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Potsticker posted:That was definitely the earlier type of stuff he did, yeah. I don't recall it being either a secret or a side account though. Ah, I guess I got him mixed up with some of the other webcomic artists at the time who had separate porn accounts.
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On one hand, I don't want to vilify someone who grew up out of their hosed up fetishes and wants to distance themselves from it, but on the other shifting blame onto others and claiming that they were just done for commissions and not owning up just speaks of trying to brush things under the rug and not of someone actually apologetic and trying to move on.
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And Captain Oblivious out of nowhere with the steel chair!
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Mercury Hat posted:Ah, I guess I got him mixed up with some of the other webcomic artists at the time who had separate porn accounts. Oh, hey, Mercury Hat! Just got Keenspace forum flashbacks. Assuming there are not multiple folks with an interest in webcomics who goes by Mercury Hat. Given the size of the internet that is hardly a safe assumption.
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