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zekterellium:
they really weren't bad at all. i think the quality of the artwork actually kinda works in yr favour becasue we know not to expect anything serious. but yeah, i liked them.

Trollstormur:
not true.

BusterKeaton:
Comedy is a science, It needs to be studied and analyzed. It has rules and guidelines and its all quite technical. You say you have the ability to make your friends laugh in day to day situations, You need to experiment and understand how your comic ability works. Are you funny in a monty python "dead seriously ridiculous" way, Maybe in a marx brothers physical character based comedy style. If you deconstruct QC its a sit-com that plays off the stereotypes and notions of certain social steretypes (emo kids, Goths, Indie elite). If you wanna write a succesful comic thats more than just sight gags and obvious humour you need to really understand what people find amusing, Its bizarre how some of the weirdest shit makes people laugh. My advice is watch alot of classic comedy, Listen to these people....

(this isnt a definitive list of comedians just a list of people with unique styles)
Richard pryor
Lenny bruce
David cross
Bill hicks
Dane cook
Dave chappelle

And google "buster keaton" the mans such a genius i had to steal his moniker.

Sideways:
I thought comic #4, from the first link you posted, was pretty fucking funny!

This one:


I laughed!

The other two were alright.  The 'old' comics were, honestly, pretty terrible.

However, I have the luxury of not writing for my own webcomic, my roommate/best friend does... so if they aren't funny, it's not my fault.

If they look like ass... well... that's my fault.  :(

fredhate:
Pesonally, I'm not big on either MS Paint comics or photo comics. Bust out your pencils and pens and get to work. If these drawings belong to you, then there's no reason that you shouldn't be kicking it up.

I think what you need to do is try to stay away from obvious jokes. A lot of the jokes sound like something my dad would say to try to be funny.

Puns on famous film quotes, especially quotes that have already been punned to death (like: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."), really don't do it for me either. Pop culture references are one thing, but try to keep them a little more obscure. It's like trying to make people laugh by busting into he finger in the air dance by Travolta in Saturday Night Fever - everyone does it and it's annoying.

Another thing that I noticed is that you often try for two punchlines in one strip - cut it down to the best one, especially in the single panel format.

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