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Scott Kurtz
twentyfour:
Just to go counter-point on ya dude. He said he never knew when he decided to make a comic about him and his friends. He probably found out about PA afterwards, loved it and emulated it.
Maybe we should move onto something less 'old' and 'no one gives much of a shit anymore' or else this thread'll be locked
Gdog4evr:
--- Quote from: twentyfour ---He said he never knew when he decided to make a comic about him and his friends. He probably found out about PA afterwards, loved it and emulated it.
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So...even if he wasn't ripping it off at the beginning, wouldn't he still be ripping it off later on?
--- Quote ---Maybe we should move onto something less 'old' and 'no one gives much of a shit anymore' or else this thread'll be locked
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Well, there's only so much contraversy that happens every day. Any suggestions?
Hey, I wonder...there are hundreds of sites that rip off Penny Arcade (two guys making jokes about video games) and 8-bit Theatre (sprite comic using Final Fantasy), think there are any that seem to rip off QC?
happybirthdaygelatin:
The thing that make it so I don't really care for PvP is basicaly the opposite of what Jeph does and says in comic 59:
--- Quote ---Today's strip is my way of flipping the bird at every cartoonist who has ever settled for the simple, obvious punchline.
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To me Kurtz has riddled PvP with easy out, obvious punchlines, and generalisations. Hurr, Star Wars fans are geeks and are so socialy inept they haven't kissed a girl.
twentyfour:
PvP is intended to be a product to sell(or means to selling products) why would you want complex punchlines or even asking people to have to think about how the punchline could be funny if you want people to read the strip, chuckle and move on, make it part of their daily schedule. Don't get me wrong, I love a comic that makes you think... but do you think Garfield would have the kind of following it has now if it alienated readers by putting it's punchlines in binary? I just think that if you wanna go whole hog and turn your comic into a big business fast(relatively) then you gotta sell out, and sell out HARD. Make it brainless but endearing(skull). At the very least ya gotta respect the guy for being able to dumb down his work for the mass audiences(even if it is 'somewhat' niche) and still sleep well at night knowing he lobotimized his work.
That said, I got a helluva lot more respect for people who're making the longer tougher road work for them(god bless the net). Milholland, Gabe and Tycho, Abrams(even though he still gets sick/breaks an arm/has a baby/goes on vacation every 2nd or 3rd week), Megatokyo guys, Jeph, uhmmm, you know.. all those bastards that don't have to work day jobs to support their webcomicry *grumble*
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jeph:
--- Quote from: Gdog4evr ---Hey, I wonder...there are hundreds of sites that rip off Penny Arcade (two guys making jokes about video games) and 8-bit Theatre (sprite comic using Final Fantasy), think there are any that seem to rip off QC?
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I know of one that emulates my style of writing pretty closely, and one that stole some of my artwork, redid it in Flash (badly, I might add) and attempted to pass it off as its own. I'm not naming names or linking links because personally I think inter-comic arguing is pretty retarded in the latter case, and because I don't want it to sound like I'm belittling the former.
The kids who are doing the similar-writing strip seem nice and are avowed fans of my work, so I have absolutely no problem if their writing feels familiar sometimes. That is how you start out, emulating your influences. The art thief can get cancer and die as far as I'm concerned. Fortunately his comic is so shitty I don't think I'll ever have to worry about him succeeding through theft of my work.
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