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Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Plethora posted:

More comics!

Black Legacy is a disturbing sci-fi that is unfortunately still in the prologue stages. Wonderful art but there's lots of body horror so NSFW.


That link seems to be dead. It redirects to a comic-not-found on comicfury.com.

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Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Pavlov posted:

Did you guys know that Hyperbole and a Half made a book? Because holy poo poo did it make my day.

Yeah, several years ago, and she's been largely silent since then. No posts on the blogspot in 2 years, nothing on the facebook in over a year (where she said she was writing a new blog post and a second book), nothing on twitter in almost a year. Considering how deep her depression went, I'm getting worried again. :ohdear:

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

MechanicalTomPetty posted:

That's the thing though, it's very easy to get in over your head and a lot of these guys just don't have any business experience at all. If you know what your getting into and don't jump the gun then I can see how it would be hugely useful and obviously plenty of people have used it to great effect. It's just that a lot of these people go into it without any plan at all and that's when you end up with big controversies and poo poo.

I don't know, I guess I just find it disturbing that the current system can be so hit-or-miss. Paetron seems like a much better system when it comes to accountability and poo poo but that's more of a "steady source of income" thing rather than a "build capital for big project" thing.

In the past few years, I've backed 54 book printings between Kickstarter and IGG, largely webcomic printings with some anthologies and special projects (like To Be or Not To Be) thrown in. Of those, 33 have delivered the book. The other 21 are mostly recent, and still in their release window. The most overdue in my list is Ran's The End--currently over two years late. The books are being shipped out, but slowly because of the cost.
Most were delivered past their estimated release date, but usually only by a few months. Ava's Demon Volume 2 is 'only' 3 months late, and the last update indicates the books should be coming from the printer sometime in the next few weeks.
Some had significant delays because of the creator's inexperience or personal problems. Order of the Stick's is still technically ongoing because he greatly overpromised on stretch goals. Everyone got their books, but the digital rewards are still ongoing. Sad Pictures for Children very nearly collapsed because of the creator's breakdown and was only saved by the Cards Against Humanity guy (I got my copy before the incident happened, though). Amanda Lafrenais has struggled with financial and personal problems with her last two. Shipping costs always seem to bite creators in the rear end.
Experience with the book printing process and already having some sort of process in place helps greatly, of course. You don't have to worry about Spike, Ryan North, or Kris Straub flaking out on a kickstarter.

Really, SPFC was the only book printing I was a part of that technically failed.
Patreon's nice, but it's usually not suitable for getting a book printed. Creators are lucky if they can get a living wage out of it, and the upfront costs for a printing run will very rarely be there.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Megazver posted:

You should listen to her interview on Mark Maron's WTF podcast. It's quite illuminating. Not only she has clinical depression, but also she had cancer and had to get her baby-making bits removed and her sister drove a car into a train. poo poo just keeps piling onto her.

That said, I believe she said that despite all this, she's doing okay-ish now and the reason there's no new posts is that she decided to stop posting online and just publish everything she writes in a book. Maybe she'll post some of the new poo poo when the book comes out, I dunno.

Aw, that's a premium episode.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

FourLeaf posted:

Did anyone else do the TJ & Amal Kickstarter? My books arrived and I enjoyed reading them so much I almost wish I had done a higher tier. Luckily Kung Fu Hustlers is only $7 dollars in the online store.

The only quibble I have is that it looks like 3 of the omnibus pages got folded over(?) during the printing process so there are jagged white lines cutting through them.

Contact her with a picture of it. I'm sure she'd be willing to swap it.
I haven't gotten my copy yet, but I did get Stand Still, Stay Silent volume 1 hardcover and Widdershins 1-5 yesterday. SSSS's book is just gorgeous. Widdershins is one of the few kickstarters I've ever backed that delivered on time, and it was only ~2 months from the end of the campaign. The estimate on the page was October 2015. I guess when you've already delivered 4 books, a 5th is pretty easy. Probably had the different versions (with/without book-exclusive content) already proofed and the printer ready to start full production as soon as the campaign ended.

Pyroclastic fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Oct 15, 2015

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Sepherothic posted:

Hi folks. I'm just getting rolling with a webcomic and wouldn't mind some critique.

So yeah. Anything anyone wants to say is okay by me. I'm a big boy, I can take it.

Too tired to make it through all of them tonight, but page 6's image is broken. Looks like the source is pointing to panel61.jpg, since I can access panel6.jpg directly just fine.

First 6 pages are interesting, though!

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

There's a pretty comic called Pepper and Carrot. I haven't really read it, but it looks cute and when I saw a kickstarter for volume 2, I decided to back it, without really looking too hard at the campaign. Webcomic kickstarters are common, easy to fulfill, and almost never fail, so if I see one for a comic that I like or looks interesting, I tend to back it and just ignore it until I get the book or I notice it's been a year and I don't have a book.

It was canceled well into stretch goal territory, and I finally took a look at it. Turns out it wasn't OK'd by the Pepper and Carrot creator. Initially the commenters thought it was just straight up infringement, but it's confused because the strip is using a Creative Commons license, but the kickstarter was missing required attributions and implied endorsements from the creator. Basically the campaign creator was going to get thousands of dollars for a book printing and only promised a 'donation' to the actual comic creator. The kickstarter is currently suspended pending an IP dispute. The comic creator isn't happy, but it's looking like once the campaign creator fixes the attributions and endorsement issues, he'll be able to restore it and still try to print the book, thanks to the CC license.

Definitely won't be backing that one again!

Pyroclastic fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Jan 22, 2016

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

I just migrated all my comic feeds out of Opera, and was kinda surprised by how many dead feeds I followed that have just stopped or disappeared without really realizing it. Not counting ones with a definitive, planned end or ones that are now continued only in print like Red's Planet or Rutabaga.

Truckbearingkibble, last strip sometime around 2009. Domain expired, comics only seem to exist in possibly incomplete third-party archives.
Kukuburi, which last had a strip in 2012 and an 'imminent return' post in 2013, and nothing since.
Dubblebaby, last updated 2013. Writer's tumbler no longer exists, artist is still active and is storyboarding with Adventure Time.
Tale of Tamarind, last strip in 2013, and a 'stay tuned for updates!' post in 2014.
Roadside, last updated 2009. Site's still up, but the images are gone, and I don't remember a drat thing about this comic.
Not so Distant, last strip in 2009 and no hint of it since. Domain expired. Not even sure who the creator was.
Rob & Elliot, last updated 2012. Creator is still doing Hamlet's Danish, although it's sporadic.
Escape From Planet Nowhere, last updated 2012, site taken over by a Japanese blogger (?). Creator still has an active website and con schedule.
Para-Ten, final strip in 2011, but all image links are broken, original site taken over. Creator still active on twitter and tumblr, but still links to the broken site.
Lair of the Dreaded Atrox, last strip in 2011, with a 'still in hibernation' message in 2012 with a 'but this other one is going!' (High Quality Erotic Art, which stopped updating that June).
Boxer Hockey, latest in 2014, with a 2015 "free webcomics don't pay the rent and it's unfair to me and my readers to trickle out one strip every few months" update
Hanna is Not a Boys Name, last updated 2011, creator is famous for dropping projects. Strip doesn't seem to exist online officially any more.
Not Drunk Enough, also by the Hanna creator, last updated September 2015.
The Last of the Polar Bears, last updated April 2015, but updates had been trickling in for years. Seems to be a 'real life gets in the way' project.
Hyperbole and a Half, last updated 2013. Allie's still alive, but seems to have vastly reduced her online presence. Apparently has another book coming this October.
Cheap Thrills, which we all know suffered a "sick of this and don't know where to go with it" in 2013. Not sure if the artist has any continued web presence.
Ellie Starling's Very Long Walk, last strip in 2013, with a 'don't have a lot of time these days' message.
Destructor, last strip in 2014, last updated with a 'artist is taking a break while perusing other projects, so we're gonna start up again with a new artist!' message that never got followed up on.
Sandi in Mari, last strip in 2012, update in 2014 with a 'not much time, really want to come back, hopefully have something for you in the next few months'.
Oak, last updated sometime in 2013ish, and published as a book (which I happened to find in a used bookstore last month). Website is now dead.
Abominable Charles Christopher, last updated in 2014. Creator is still active, but no hints of a return of Charles Christopher.
All Night, last updated Jan 2015. Creator's twitter is gone and tumblr hasn't been updated in months.
Christopher, last updated Jan 2015. His twitter says he swears he has a new comic almost done as of last December.
LeLatte, last updated 2014. Latest update is a 'Sorry, we don't have any time and have grown distant from the setting. It's over.'
Dullahan, last updated 2013. Creator's personal blog seems active, but art blog isn't.
Roza, the Cursed Mage, last updated 2013, but still posts a lot of Roza sketches on twitter. Senior artist at a Disney game developer.
House of Orr, last updated...not sure, nothing's dated and the RSS only shows today's date. Early 2015?
Fanboys, last updated Feb 2015. Creator's only current comic work seems to be for College Humor.
Rosetta Phone, last updated July 2015 with a 'winter break' and some people on the tumblr asking if the comic is continuing with a 'maybe??' in November
Dracula Mystery Club, last updated 2012, only lasted 24 pages. involved our very own Kel, and the only comic labeled as 'Discontinued' on Kel's site.
Selektive Erinnerung, last updated 2013. Doesn't look like the English versions caught up with the original German, which also stopped 3 years ago. Artist is now part of Pengboom.
TGSA Comic, last updated 2010. I think they had something to do with Gone with the Blastwave, which of course we're still lucky to get 1 comic a quarter from.

Also discovered quite a few that had changed their RSS feed without notifying the old feed first.

It's pretty neat how many of these and other comic creators are working for big comic publishers or the animation industry now.

Pyroclastic fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Jan 31, 2016

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

djw175 posted:

This one is still going. It just hasn't had a blog post since then. The most recent one was like 3 days ago.

Oops, should've checked the RSS for actual strip dates.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Tollymain posted:

their twitter's still around? i think that life just got busy, as these things often go

The link on the comic page, https://twitter.com/brittneysabo , says it doesn't exist.

I'm sure life getting busy is the reason all of these strips have stopped (I don't think anyone's died or gone to prison), but it's surprising how many don't even get an update saying that, and how those that do seem to end with a 'More updates soon!'. Hell, it's a victory if they keep their domains registered and hosting bills paid.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Future Days posted:

I'm IRL glad KC's work made it to the small screen. The AS IDs Youtube channel uploaded another bunch of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAyiknD1tLU

It's great hearing Space Ghost talk like How is Babby Formed.

I'm disappointed that the channel stopped displaying the creator's name. If you look at their older IDs, they're tagged--Cyriak, Paul Robertson, etc. But nothing about the creators of the latest ones.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Ah, I can finally mark The End book 1 'Delivered' on my kickstarter spreadsheet. Next-oldest book kickstarter I'm waiting on is Notes on a Case of Melancholia, by the PBF guy.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Got my copy of Monster Pulse v2 from the Kickstarter today. Didn't realize it was going to be so small compared to volume 1. Volume 1 is 8.5" x 11.75". V2 is 5"x7".

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

No one mentioning Allison defeating Mottom with a sick burn?

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

Good lord, Abominable Charles Christopher updated. And not a guest strip either! I am curious to see if he has a plan for resolving the impossibly unbeatable predicament the main plot was in, where a mountain sized god was approximately five steps away from crushing a city and the main characters were stuck on top of a mountain half a mile away with no way of getting to him in the ten seconds or so that they had left.

Then when it's done he can throw that confusing nonsense in the trash and make it solely about woodland animals doing random stuff, like it should be.

Wow, it's been almost a year and a half.
He's been doing some DC comic book, and will be starting a new comic book series for Image soon; hopefully he manages to find time to continue ACC during this run!

Kelly Turnbull made it through her surgery, and her scar really complements her look.

Pyroclastic fucked around with this message at 01:29 on May 10, 2016

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Nuns with Guns posted:

Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic just hit 10 years old the Sunday before last if anyone wants an obscenely long (almost 3,000 pages) comic that's generally fun

like the name implies, it starts out with a lot of "lol D&D!" jokes but that gets dropped quickly in favor of giving it ongoing story arcs. The guy who makes it is a storyboard artist that does the comic in his free time for fun, so he rarely does more than sketches. I know some people were asking about long comics to read in their spare time and at least this seems like a better thing to waste time on than those ancient-drama-comics-that-must-not-be-named.

My RSS for it stopped updating for a long time and I only noticed a couple months ago. No idea what was going on, no idea how far back the last comic I read was. I'm not even sure if everyone I remember is still alive at this point.

Should also mention that it's NSFW because there's quite a lot of tits.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Benign Kingdom has finally returned with their artbook series, with Meredith Gran (Octopus Pie), Dustin Harbin (nothing I recognize), Becky Dreistadt (Tiny Kitten Teeth, Capture Creatures), and Evan Dahm (Vattu, Order of Tales, Rice Boy). They're less than halfway to the goal with a little more than half the time remaining.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Esme posted:

A while ago I read a very short comic about a girl whose father was sick so she had to go out and perform an annual ritual to kill the devil. I remember there was a knife and a light. Anyone know the name?

drat, I just read that a short while ago, and I was sure I got the link in here, but I just went back like 4 months and didn't see it. The tags are too generic for a decent google search.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

MockingQuantum posted:

Hey, there's a webcomics thread. I shouldn't be surprised.

So after a long hiatus from webcomics, I've picked Broodhollow back up, and discovered Stand Still, Stay Silent & K6BD. I'm digging them all again, particularly the Lovecraftian feel of Broodhollow, and the postapocalyptic + magic themes of SSSS. Any others along those lines that I absolutely have to read? The only other long running or notable webcomics I really read back when I checked them out daily were Starslip Crisis and Spacetrawler.

Spacetrawler ended, and the creator's done two since then--one where the character art experiment wasn't very successful, but the story was alright, and another one that's apparently winding up soon. He just announced last week that Spacetrawler is coming back, though!

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Nuebot posted:

This makes me happy because it means Poppy will be around for a long time. It is a good comic.

I'm also holding out hope for the sequel: Dr. Lily.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Der-Shing has started the first Kickstarter for The Meek. It's already 175% funded.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

To try and get away from SFP, here are some Kickstarters.

Our own Kate Ashwin is printing another Widdershins book, and there's less than a day to go. It's 300% funded.
The Meek is printing its first volume, with 9 days left, over 400% funded so far.

Chris Baldwin's printing Anna Galactic, 60% funding with 18 days left. He's also started a new Spacetrawler run.


You only have 3 days left to get in on Bad Girls Illustrated Volume 3 (NSFW). It's 2500% funded, and who would want to miss those sexy bad girls, expert anatomy and flowing action?

There's more than a week left for Rogue Salvage, which features realistically-proportioned cousins in non-porn poses, drawn by someone who certainly doesn't have a patreon or DeviantArt for big tits & hips/small head fetishists. Funded, so back now to have this masterpiece on your shelf!

Dimention only needs an artist, a publisher, and a website! Brought to you by a "brilliant academic"!

Somehow, Jeff McDermott only has $61 for his cutting, innovative, and expertly photoshopped political satire post cards! Note that the goal low enough that it might accidentally get ironically funded.

Disappointingly, I'm unable to bring you any Pony projects.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

qntm posted:

Any week now Let's Speak English is going to start a Kickstarter, which may be the first Kickstarter I contribute to just because I want that book to be made, even though I don't actually want to possess the book myself.

I was a little sad to hear she was coming back to the US because that meant the strips wouldn't last much longer, although it meant more time could be devoted to Kiwi Blitz and Sleepless Domain.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

I went through a bunch of my RSS feeds not too long ago, and was surprised at how many comics just stopped updating with nothing from the creator. There were several that had a "Sorry for the long hiatus, we're back!" post after a months-long break, then absolutely nothing for years after the return post. Some are even domain squatted or just gone now.

Anders Loves Maria came back to 'retell' in prep for a printing for like 9 pages in February, then ceased again.
Boxer Hockey had a couple of sputtering attempts to come back.
Dawn of Time (the silent cavegirl with a pet triceratops) just stopped suddenly in 2011.
Destructor had a very erratic update schedule before we got a "Our artist is going on an extended break to do other things, but we'll be back with a new artist!" 2 years ago and silence since.
A comic called Dullahan doesn't even resolve its page anymore, and it only had 9 pages before the school excuse (don't remember a drat thing about the comic).
El Indon went on indefinite hiatus in July, and I feel like it'll never come back.
Ellie Starling's Very Long Walk had a cliffhanger and a 'Last comic for a little bit. Not enough time' excuse...3 years ago.
Escape from Planet Nowhere appears to be Japanese person's blog now.
Kiwis by Beat suffered a similar fate.
Fanboys tried some sort of weird reboot after sporadic updates, then went silent over a year ago.
Fox Sister was sporadic and the last post was about how the creator was graduating in a couple weeks, and there were 17 pages left in this chapter; silence since.
House of Orr went on unexplained hiatus quite a while ago.
Kukuburi had a post mentioning a 'ramp up for an imminent return' 3 years ago.
Not So Distant has virtually vanished from the internet.
Max Overacts went on hiatus at the end of 2015 with promises of a return by June (and 5-6 strips before the hiatus), but nothing since.
Cheap Thrills just ended on a sour note.
Rosetta Phone, still in its introductory phase went on hiatus 'for winter break' and five months later the tumblr says they aren't doing it any more.
Roza the Cursed Mage stopped updating in 2013 and we got a few character sketches this year, and nothing else.
Sandi and Mari went on 'busy with games' hiatus 2 years ago.
Lair of the Dreaded Atrox just stopped updating.
Last of the Polar Bears creator had a baby last year and hasn't done anything since.
Tale of Tamarind has a 'working on new website and comics, more info later!' two years ago as a last post.
Tales from the Trenches (the Penny Arcade collab with Kurtz and a revolving door of uncredited artists) stopped updating without explanation in January (not a big loss, but still).
Three Word Phrase got a job storyboarding for Regular Show, but hasn't posted anything in quite a while.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Jackard posted:

"down for maintenance"

Is it really, or does the link have a typo?

Another comic I read just moved to Tapastic, and the rss link on their page gives the same message.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

I don't think I had ever heard of it before I saw another webcomic link to it, but there's apparently a popular comic about hockey called Check Please.
It's made a quarter million dollars in a week.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Just learned about a comic called Zana, about an alternate future world where South African apartheid never ended and now white 'royals' run all of africa, mixed-race 'urbans' presumably live in cities, and dark 'tribals' live in what amount to rural ghettos. And the Royals are...unpleasant, in the two pages they've appeared. I'm reminded of Belgian Congo.
Only a few pages so far, and the art's really nice.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Crocoswine posted:

https://tapastic.com/series/Paradise

it is very jarring that the artist decided to change all of the characters' body types so drastically within 5 chapters

Evon goes from having a bodybuilder bod in Chapter 2 to fat by start of Chapter 5, and by the end of Chapter 5 she's 100lbs heavier than she was at the start of the chapter.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Renaissance Robot posted:

She really is The Worst.

Speaking of good comics containing people who may or may not be The Worst, is House of Orr still dead?

No updates on their Twitter or Facebook since August 2015, no updates on Tumblr for a year, website still just shows covers for Colonial Souls, which concluded in January 2015.
The artist still works on Balderdash! and is active on Twitter. The writer is still active on twitter, and is the creator of the Roll20 app (which still seems to be in active use/development), but posted this to his tumblr back in May 2016 about Orr:


quote:

So I guess House of Orr is canceled forever?
— Asked by theinsanewombat
“Indefinite hiatus.” Another comic project comes first, and then some searching for new artists… but I have more I want to say with those characters. No timeline, just intentions.

Considering how much attention it's gotten, I'd bet we never see it come back and it's yet another 'indefinite hiatus' comic that is actually 'infinite hiatus'.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Regy Rusty posted:

I'm 5 chapters in now and thoroughly hooked.

Can someone give me the lowdown on what happened with chapter 3? When/why did it get added?

I believe it ran between (the current) Chapter 4 and Chapter 5, because Morbi needed to introduce some things that would come into play later, like the smuggler opossums and introducing Chicadino, or show some things like Lily's eye getting fixed.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

ConanThe3rd posted:

LSE kickstarter is up and the target is $10k. Fair warning, highest tier has only five slots and I took one so that's four.

And it's hit 1.5k in like fifteen minutes so I think there's little to no danger of the book not happening.

Already past $7k. $170 was all gone by the time I got there, but the $100 tier with original strip art is still available.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Tunicate posted:

back it up to another drive, since it's irreplaceable

Yeah, old laptop like that will have an old drive, probably without much life left on it. Copy it to a couple of spinning-disk drives (SSDs and other flash memory may lose data within a year of being unpowered), and get some good archival DVDs and burn a few copies with that, as well. I know elektroboot said it's like 300GB of stuff, but archiving stuff like that is a Good Thing.

You might wanna contact archive.org to see about sending them a copy, but not for publication until something changes.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Kazinsal posted:

As far as webcomics that disappeared go, I've always wondered if someone somewhere has an archive of the missing Perry Bible Fellowship comics.

At one point, I'm fairly sure I had all of them, but I believe that HDD died without me noticing it. I had several of the variant punchlines. I need to check my external drive and see if I have it backed up there.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

khy posted:

A friend of mine introduced me to this comic

Guardians of the Video Game

I've been EXTREMELY pleasantly surprised by it. Hand-drawn pixel art is a bit odd but other than that it's really intriguing. A player playing an old-school RPG doing a pacifist run and the behind-the-scenes stuff having to make it work, but with intrigue and backstabbing and betrayal as well.

Waaaay too much scrolling. Even just scrolling rapidly through, without reading it, it was too much scrolling.

loving "infinite canvas" strikes again.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Pavlov posted:

You know, from those tow pages I definitely wasn't expecting a longform drama about woodland critter prostitutes.

No kidding. And not just drama, philosophical discussions about society, art, sex, and self. I went back to the first page of the story and went through the whole thing. Hard to follow at times, and took a long time to get a grasp of the setting, but I've rather enjoyed it and now it's in my RSS reader. Going to have to go back and read the other stories when it's not 3am.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

ConanThe3rd posted:

My rewards for the Lets Speak English Kickstarter came in and I got the comic I wanted and I couldn't be happier with my commission (Which is an OC for a novel so I won't put it here)


drat you, that was my first choice (and probably a lot of people's)!

I got my third choice. On reflection, I think I prefer that one to my second choice.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

PMush Perfect posted:

The gold standard for "kickstart that's taking too long" is Barkley 2. You only hear something every month or two, but they do keep in touch (and apparently, they ran out of money a long time ago so it's purely running on passion now).

The Two Guys SpaceVenture (spiritual sequel to Space Quest) predates Barkley 2 by 5 months, and still isn't out. They're relatively chatty with updates (113 compared to Barkley's 33), and the game development seems to be still chugging along. Just more Catch Me Who Can than L0 Series. I'm sure the original kickstarter funds dried up a long time ago.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

TwoPair posted:

So, dumb question, does anyone know any good video game webcomics? Like, just a place to get kicks at a joke about Zelda. Used to be every other comic out there was a Penny Arcade ripoff, but now most of them are fine and I have to agree with some of the bad webcomic folk that a significant part of PA's recent output is jokes about fatherhood. Awkward Zombie is a good laugh but it's only weekly and I just want to laugh at a Mario joke now and again.

e: And I don't mean stuff like Badnix that rips on video games as a medium, I mean dumb jokes about existing games. I usually find a lot popping up on Facebook from Tumblr but Tumblr's format is poo poo for following comics.

He hasn't really done any webcomicking since he started doing professional comics work, but I enjoyed the copy of Magical Game Time by Zac Gorman when I bought it at ECCC. It's not all dumb video game jokes, though; lots of non-joke type comics are in there too. Tumblr format, though.

Castle Vidcons hasn't updated in a while, but it spontaneously updates occasionally, usually when there's big game hardware-related news, though there's nothing about the Switch. And sometimes the strips are pretty opaque if you don't know what was happening in the news when it was posted.

The GamerCat is pretty meh, but it updates once a week and ticks the 'dumb game jokes' box.

Scrolling through my feed list, I'm shocked at how few video game comics there are in it. And what I do have, I think Gamercat, Manly Guys, and Awkward Zombie are the only ones that still post regularly.

Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

ConanThe3rd posted:

Good stuff given that this is endgame we're reaching here.

Which reminds me, I framed my LSE comic page. Right pain in the rear it is to find someone who will do to-order frame mats.

There's several chain stores that'll do custom framing and matting...Micheal's, JoAnn's, Aaron Brothers.

I have several unusually-shaped items I've wanted to get framed & matted for years, but I've been too lazy.

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Pyroclastic
Jan 4, 2010

Morbi's patreon is set up to pay out per page, and it's currently at $403 per with 190 patrons.
As a comparison, Magnolia Porter is at $523 per month with 191 patrons, Evan Dahm is has 297 patrons (amount is hidden, but I'd guess around $900), Tom Siddell is making $5500 a month with 1900 patrons, and Tracy Butler is also at $5500, with 1500 patrons.

Tracy's output is glacial, but very high-quality. She has several tiers where you can get custom art--100 people every month get a digital sketch. That's nearly half her total right there. 10 people pay $50 to get a physical sketch mailed to them. Another nearly-half is the $5 tier where you can watch art livestreams and interact with her.
Tom's got custom art at a $50 tier, but the bulk of his patrons are the $2 and $5, which don't actually get you much, but 32 $15 level people can watch stream side projects.
Magnolia and Evan both have even more limited tiers--no custom art, no streams--just sketch blogs and ebooks.
Morbi's just got wallpapers and worldbuilding posts (and at $20, you can make requests for worldbuilding posts).

Morbi's doing pretty well on Patreon, comparatively. He posted 6 comics in May, so that's somewhere between $~403 and $2400 for the month, depending how Patrons have their 'up to' set. Of course, per-page generally rewards higher output, which could contribute to burnout.

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