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[thebochez]

www.bochez.com/littlepunks


We've actually been around for a few years, but don;t have much time to do many comics...

Let us know what you think of what we have so far!

Also, I just finished the new script for the site and comic management, so let me know what you think about the site and its workings as well!

[PrickOfDestiny]

Zeus & Sons now has an actual domain name.

http://www.zeusandsons.com

[pyroboarder69]

Guess I might as well join in.

http://www.bandmatescomic.com

Only a few strips up so far, but I certainly plan on sticking around a while.

[indecisive]

Hey, folks. I do a comic called Made Up. Its about a guy with no friends until his childhood imaginary friend shows up.

I hope you'll give it a shot. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

(Sorry this is my first post. I suck at forums. I lurk every now and then, but never keep up long enough to be a regular.)

[joesoar]

Pyroboarder69-

I just wanted to say that it's awesome you wanna do a music comic, and I would like to see you pull it off.

With that, I wanna say two things, one you need to work on your art. I know it sucks if you put a bunch of time in and then somebody says it needs more work. I get that a lot, but I've been trying to get better over time. I try to do warm up drawings, I've gotten a lot better with building characters from the ground up, stick figure to blocky, to details ect. It helps. I like renting anatomy books from the library and just trying to replicate all the drawings from it. ESPECIALLY hands. You're gonna be drawing a lot of hands, you can hide them. Not on a guitar. Hands are the worst, but if you got good hands the rest of your character will benefit from it.


 Second, I think you need to try to fix up the site a bit. I didn't like having to figure out how to click on the comic just to read the others, AND not having the news with it. I really like reading the news because it gives some insight or seven the progression of your thought on the comic. Plus the font you use on the big buttons is a bit hard to read. Not terrible, but I think there are other cool fonts to try. Check out Blambot.com, they have some awesome free fonts that an independant artist can use for free!

Good luck to you, I'm excited to see some more stuff when you make it!

[joesoar]

 indecisive-

I think you're doing a pretty good job just putting out comics and making them interesting enough to read. I think you need to push the jokes a little more really. I also think you would benefit from looking at some anatomy books, I think that with  your style, the characters look good, but I think that they could look better, even if it is more catoony. I think that you could also really work on expressions. When your characters get hit or laugh or imagine, they need to look like they're doing what they're doing, The very fist page it looks like walter is excited that somebody is breaking into his house. Or at least happy about it.

Keep it up though.

[indecisive]

joesoar

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I really appreciate it. I'm definitely trying to improve my art all around (and think that I am little by little), but its helpful to hear specifics on what needs improvement. Same goes for the writing, really. Thanks again.

[joesoar]

Of course! There is no way you can do anything like a comic and not get better over time! Some people can grasp art or writing easier than others, but for the most part it is just practice and working hard. Getting feedback is the best way to know your weaknesses and try to focus on them.

A lot of professional webcomic artists were kind enough to give me feedback when I asked, like John Allison, Chris Hastings, Zach Wiener, they're all super nice and pretty prompt on getting back to me. I think there are a few who I asked who are pretty busy or get so many e-mails they can't always do it, but it doesn't hurt to ask, if they can they can and if not it's ok! Their opinions are also worth a bit more than mine cause they can give feedback based on what they have tried and has been successful for them.

[joesoar]

Oh yeah, Prickofdestiny, I was gonna say that all that white around your comic is kinda distracting. You have such a gray site that the white pops too much, then takes away from the comic.

John Allison of SGR gave me that tip when my comic had big white boarders too. I was just hoping to pass it on! :{D

[PrickOfDestiny]

Oh yeah, Prickofdestiny, I was gonna say that all that white around your comic is kinda distracting. You have such a gray site that the white pops too much, then takes away from the comic.

John Allison of SGR gave me that tip when my comic had big white boarders too. I was just hoping to pass it on! :{D

So what do you think I should do? Should I make the margins grey?

[Zombiedude]

Or change the site design.

[joesoar]

No, not even! A site design might not be too bad, but I think if you cropped the amount of white around the actual comic that would help a lot.

[PrickOfDestiny]

No, not even! A site design might not be too bad, but I think if you cropped the amount of white around the actual comic that would help a lot.

Well I guess I *could* make the marble on the background white instead of grey...
(besides, I think I chose that size for the comics because it's the A4 format)

[Jeans]

I am going to be super harsh, but it's for your own good, I think! This is my subjective opinion and you are allowed to hate me for it. Maybe it's a great design and I just suck.

General site design... I think maybe you'd be better off with

-a smaller, less intrusive logo
-ditching the flashy IRC link
-ditching the links on the right-hand side to digg, facebook etc
-losing the twitter feed
-losing the archives dropdown over the comic
-removing the quote by Athena

Basically, make sure what gets the attention is the comic, not the extras. The comic is what you're trying to get people interested in, slogging through added extras is just an annoyance - twitter, for example: You're an artist just starting out, so you don't have a lot of regular readers. Regular readers are the only ones who care about the author whatsoever. Right now it looks like you're putting yourself before the comic, that you're doing this for attention, which is not a good thing. Finally, get a different background if you're going to keep the white comic borders, they don't work together at all - preferrably, one that doesn't look like it's from a Geocities page circa 1998.

[Zombiedude]

What the Norwegian man said.

[joesoar]

Jeans does have a point, there is a lot of stuff on the site, its sort of cramped. Heck, I don't know why I have a twitter on my site cause I get like 7 readers unless I run PW ads.

You really have something interesting going, focus on it. I would really consider fixing those borders, OR changing the site to fit the comic better.

Jeans, I;m glad you're also being honest because you're right, sometimes a devil's advocate is needed to make something the best it can be lol.

[Jeans]

Yeah, I'm not saying this to be a dick, I hope they aren't it isn't taken that way.

edited because grammar Jens what the hell

[joesoar]

I worry about that too, but I hated it in high school when my teachers would just congratulate me and not always push me. now I feel way behind what I'll be going into by the time I make it to art school (I'm at community college to save money).

If I keep this up though, I hope I'll come out number one at school. I am determined to get better in the next 3 years and beyond.

[PrickOfDestiny]

I am going to be super harsh, but it's for your own good, I think! This is my subjective opinion and you are allowed to hate me for it. Maybe it's a great design and I just suck.

General site design... I think maybe you'd be better off with

-a smaller, less intrusive logo
-ditching the flashy IRC link
-ditching the links on the right-hand side to digg, facebook etc
-losing the twitter feed
-losing the archives dropdown over the comic
-removing the quote by Athena

Basically, make sure what gets the attention is the comic, not the extras. The comic is what you're trying to get people interested in, slogging through added extras is just an annoyance - twitter, for example: You're an artist just starting out, so you don't have a lot of regular readers. Regular readers are the only ones who care about the author whatsoever. Right now it looks like you're putting yourself before the comic, that you're doing this for attention, which is not a good thing. Finally, get a different background if you're going to keep the white comic borders, they don't work together at all - preferrably, one that doesn't look like it's from a Geocities page circa 1998.

I'm definitely not taking that as jackassery, and appreciate the feedback. I'll take the advice and explain the reason for some of the points criticised
- Smaller logo: Agreed on that one. Next website-tweaking session (at the moment, the priority is on releasing the next page this week), I'll shrink it.
- Flashy IRC link: I forgot to stop the flashing. It's a habit for me to make links to new features blink or otherwise attract attention, and the IRC has been there for long enough for my few regulars to have noticed it. A few new readers entered the room too, it was nice to get to chat with them live, sort of.
- Bookmarking site links: Maybe I should make them smaller, just thought giving my readers the possibility to link to the site on Digg and such would increase my potential exposure and possibly my reader base. I should definitely do something about those though, they are too big.
- Twitter feed: The feed is actually much more about the comic than about myself. Even when mentioning I now understand Flash, because the link between this and a website is kind of obvious. Maybe I should put it on the right-hand column site under the "quick cast reminder".
- Navbar over the comic: True, this is kind of redundant considering there's one under the comic.
- Quote: The quote actually changes every time you reload the page. 

So! What would you think about this layout instead?

[Jeans]

Yeah, I think that looks much better! I'd still put the logo on top of the comic though, but if possible, make the logo text wide rather than tall, so you can make it a reasonable size without it stealing too much attention from the comic - even though the comic is what's interesting, you do want people to know what site they've just stumbled into. Think of the logo as a headline of sorts.

[joesoar]

hey guys, I just re-did my site design. Cleaned it up and changed the colors a bit.

http://www.grumpycomics.com

any comments?

[Hustler]

I remember posting in one of these threads ages ago, I guess a new one was made.

Anyhow, my comic, Nuclear Powered Toaster, is back after about two and a half years on the bench.  It happens when you're dependent on others for art dispensing.  You can find it here, or by clicking the link in my sig.  Decided to reboot; only got 44 strips in last time, and not all of them still did it for me, so we went at it from another angle.  So if you want to go check it out and let me know what you think, I'd be most obliged.  No such thing as too many critiques.

[devinhoo]

I'm just getting started, so I only have 18 strips up so far.

The full url is http://web.me.com/devinhoo/slashfacepalm/
and the short url (yay redirect sites) is slashfacepalm.co.nr

Thanks.

[Geekdumb]

Ok, we're pretty new to this but here's my comic.
http://www.geek-dumb.com/
Pretty sure most of you will like the location we just introduced into the comic.

Oh yeah, and so that Jeph looks...
it sucks

[AdamDDC]

Well my comic is pretty damn new but i've put a lot of work into it over the past 3 weeks so that it's far enough in for you guys to remotely appreciate it. And hopefully Jeph too! QC's entertained me for years now, and the t-shirts I bought from here make me the fanciest dandy in my town.
 
Updating colour A4 sized comics 5 times a week is hard, and even harder when i'm stuck in an office from 9-6. I don't think I really appreciated all the effort!

http://www.death-defying.com

Please take a look (and favourite it if you like!)

Thanks guys,

Adam

[RachelEvil]

I may have just now started writing a webcomic...
http://lifeamong.thecomicseries.com/

[tomselleck69]

I may have just now started writing a webcomic...
http://lifeamong.thecomicseries.com/

there is potential here, so tell your artist to do the following things:
-erase her pencils after inking
-adjust levels in photoshop
-use a font designed specifically for comic lettering (many are available for free at blambot.com)

[RachelEvil]

The font thing is all me. I'll work on that.

As for the other suggestions, going through what I have on my computer, it looks like she started doing both of those on the fourth strip.

[tomselleck69]

aiight holmes

good luck with comics, may the internet rise up to meet you, etc

[Hainted]

Hainted Holler.It's based loosely on me and my wife and the small southern town we live in.To that I added Biscuit Pete, a superhero who can summon and command biscuits at will,and The Boon, a baboon owned by the main characters that has been trained to attack annoying people and rape them in the ear until they pass out.We're fairly new,just hit one month yesterday,but I guarantee we are the best webcomic drawn at work on copier paper with a Sharpie and Ball point pen you've ever seen.And if you start reading now you'll get caught up in time for The Boon to make his appearance in next weeks storyline.
http://www.drunkduck.com/Hainted_Holler

[Jimmy-Page]

So, figured I might as well post here too. www.theburnlimit.the-comic.org
We're a bit of a slower updating comic (about every other Wednesday or Thursday), but keep in mind that we are a newer comic as well. The arts about so-so for the first three, but I've been getting alot better at it lately. We're an indie little slice 'o life comic about romance, evil lil' turtles, music, and mimes! You might as well bookmark the page, cause we'll be here for awhile!

[RachelEvil]

New font is better font?
http://lifeamong.thecomicseries.com

[Zombiedude]

Yeah, much better,

[ruinfix]

Here's my web-comic called Chatters that I've only just got back into writing:

http://www.myspace.com/chatters_comic

(also located at http://chatterscomic.deviantart.com and http://www.comicspace.com/chatters)

I'm a lazy git, so it takes me forever to release strips.

Here's my side-project (its an Art of Fighting/King of Fighters sprite one --- yeah I know):

http://www.comicspace.com/macsbar

[The Pig]

Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of Cat Boxes, a traditional newspaper-style strip based on my wife and I and our cats.  Have a look and- I hope -a laugh or many, and enjoy the occasional pearls of cat... er, wisdom.
Thanks for visiting!
Michael
http://catboxes.comicdish.com

[amnesiac16]

Hello, I took over as artist a few weeks ago on a 8 or 9 month old webcomic called A Game Of Fools www.agameoffools.com
I don't write it and I'm still finding my feet after overhauling the character designs to suit my style, but I'm enjoying it so far and some of you should check it out. Please.
There seems to be quite a lot of comic creating talent in this thread, I needed some things to keep me up tonight!
Cheers, James

[BrilliantEraser]

Just a notice to say that my comic, Traitor, is back up and running after I took the summer off (I was hella busy). Also, my friend's comic is posted on the site as well -- Hapmarman's Happy Happy Fun Time. Both can be reached from the main webpage: http://brillianteraser.com

Critiques for both comics are invited/welcome. Thanks for checking us out.

[iglidante]

Well, here we go. Behold: Flying Man and Friends.

I'm updating three times a week. I have a good backlog going, so I don't plan on missing a day (ever, if I can help it). I started it on a Blogger account and quickly moved to a Comicpress site once I realized I needed more freedom. I'm still working on the site here and there, when I get a chance.

[brazen]

I've been doing a little webcomic for a little over a year now.

http://www.suscomic.com

The website has three different strips that update M-F every week.

Science Undergraduate Society: QCesque but about science students

Mr. London: the result of too much Monty Python in formative years

Tertiary Education (3 ED): Tragicomic

Let me know what you think!

[Vanguard]

http://mindofvanguard.webs.com/

Stick figures!
Everyone loves stick figures.

[BrilliantEraser]

Yeah, but not really.

And one other thing, your site takes forever to load. If you want any decent sort of web traffic, try hosting your own site. Seriously. I read three comics and gave up because the loading time had me so frustrated. Be glad I did not take out my bile on you.

[Zombiedude]

Huh, the site loads fine for me.

[BrilliantEraser]

It's loading fine now for me too. Maybe I was just on during peak hours last time.

[Eddurd]

Big crossover event at "Everyday Heroes".  Let's all play "Spot the Characters" (and the one barely-visible QC reference).

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=164189

[Jace]

Started a choose yr own adventure comic.

[Wayfaring Stranger]

I have a new comic that I've been working on for the past month.  I'd appreciate any suggestions, comments, criticisms, etc.  Thanks!

http://www.foxingquires.com

[joesoar]

Hey everybody, after trying to figure out what to do with my comics, I have come back with a new one! Same spot,

http://www.grumpycomics.com

I started a comic about imagination, and its basically about me and my friends, and I'm not gonna try to write things out of my league like last time.

Basically, its everything thats awesome.

oh, the comic is called, Imagination! and all that is awesome!