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Y Halo Thar hormones!
May. 22nd, 2007 09:36 pmAnd cue the part of the month when I try to not bite people, and Aidan tries to talk me into a sex change. Whee.
May. 22nd, 2007
I'm quite possibly insane.
May. 22nd, 2007 10:21 pmNo, screw that. I'm definitely insane! But hey, nothing wrong with that, right?
Anyhow... one positive result of all this comic drama is that I finally went and read EGS. Just finished the archives today, in fact. And I really enjoyed it, somewhat to my surprise. Knowing the Bunnies, and knowing the comic's reputation, I actually expected it to be somewhat more... crude I guess? I'm not sure I can say I expected it to be more perverted, it is perverted, but not quite in the way I expected. But the point is, that I liked it a lot.
And a corrolary point to that is, I liked it a lot, and it's the kind of art level I personally could draw. I could even, on a good day, maybe do a little better. Maybe, I not sure. That's a pretty rare thing for me. Most of the comics I read are better drawn than I could manage, though it ranges from "I could almost do that if I really worked at it for a while" (Schlock or CRFH) to "ha, not in a million years" (Dan and Mab, Girl Genius.)
And that thought got me thinking again about comicking. Now I have tried this before, and I know several things. One is that I can't comic worth beans by myself. Another is that I don't work very well under tons of pressure, but I also don't work when there's no pressure at all, it's got to be just the right combination. (This is part of why collaboration works. I have a person right there, not just "the fans" who I will let down if I don't do my part, so there's a little pressure, but not too much.) My bit in EOU turned into a fiasco because of going from "okay, there's a lot of pressure, but I can handle this" to "cartoon 16 ton weight just fell directly on my head." But if there hadn't been that miscommunication, if things had gone otherwise... I was really enjoying it! It was fun! A little stressful, but fun! If I could do that about once every other week, say... or once a week, with less work...
So that spawned a thought. Working well with others, doing a little less work, loving comics... I want to collaborate! I think my personal ideal would be three people. One for story and layout design, the same kind of thing Low has been doing with the crossover. Then one for linework and inking. And one for color, effects and text. Though maybe I could do it with two, if we did a black and white comic. Anyhow, I could do any of these parts, though I'd probably be best at the linework, it'd depend on the skill of the others involved. And of course they'd have to be the right people. People I could get along with. People who could come up with ideas I'd like. People good at communicating clearly. People capable of putting up with me! (Goes without saying, probably.)
I dunno... finding people who can draw and write and put up with me who also have time and motivation to do a weekly comic is probably asking a bit much. But then on the other hand, I know a lot of people who draw or write.
So I guess I'm just throwing this out there. Mostly as idle musings, about what would be nice in an ideal world. But if somebody wants to actually take me up on it, hey, I'm game! I've done it before. We got three chapters out of Golden Gate, and updated twice a week without fail for a while before my brother bailed out on me. I'd happily have kept going. I like comicking, and I like doing collaborative work. And I'm insane, as you may have noticed.
Anyhow... one positive result of all this comic drama is that I finally went and read EGS. Just finished the archives today, in fact. And I really enjoyed it, somewhat to my surprise. Knowing the Bunnies, and knowing the comic's reputation, I actually expected it to be somewhat more... crude I guess? I'm not sure I can say I expected it to be more perverted, it is perverted, but not quite in the way I expected. But the point is, that I liked it a lot.
And a corrolary point to that is, I liked it a lot, and it's the kind of art level I personally could draw. I could even, on a good day, maybe do a little better. Maybe, I not sure. That's a pretty rare thing for me. Most of the comics I read are better drawn than I could manage, though it ranges from "I could almost do that if I really worked at it for a while" (Schlock or CRFH) to "ha, not in a million years" (Dan and Mab, Girl Genius.)
And that thought got me thinking again about comicking. Now I have tried this before, and I know several things. One is that I can't comic worth beans by myself. Another is that I don't work very well under tons of pressure, but I also don't work when there's no pressure at all, it's got to be just the right combination. (This is part of why collaboration works. I have a person right there, not just "the fans" who I will let down if I don't do my part, so there's a little pressure, but not too much.) My bit in EOU turned into a fiasco because of going from "okay, there's a lot of pressure, but I can handle this" to "cartoon 16 ton weight just fell directly on my head." But if there hadn't been that miscommunication, if things had gone otherwise... I was really enjoying it! It was fun! A little stressful, but fun! If I could do that about once every other week, say... or once a week, with less work...
So that spawned a thought. Working well with others, doing a little less work, loving comics... I want to collaborate! I think my personal ideal would be three people. One for story and layout design, the same kind of thing Low has been doing with the crossover. Then one for linework and inking. And one for color, effects and text. Though maybe I could do it with two, if we did a black and white comic. Anyhow, I could do any of these parts, though I'd probably be best at the linework, it'd depend on the skill of the others involved. And of course they'd have to be the right people. People I could get along with. People who could come up with ideas I'd like. People good at communicating clearly. People capable of putting up with me! (Goes without saying, probably.)
I dunno... finding people who can draw and write and put up with me who also have time and motivation to do a weekly comic is probably asking a bit much. But then on the other hand, I know a lot of people who draw or write.
So I guess I'm just throwing this out there. Mostly as idle musings, about what would be nice in an ideal world. But if somebody wants to actually take me up on it, hey, I'm game! I've done it before. We got three chapters out of Golden Gate, and updated twice a week without fail for a while before my brother bailed out on me. I'd happily have kept going. I like comicking, and I like doing collaborative work. And I'm insane, as you may have noticed.