I have mentioned in the forums that I am trying to do seven daily comic strips. Immediately, I planned to (sort-of) cheat by including daily updates of ME2 as one of the seven comics. I have done a goodly amount of scripting for 5 of the seven, and have set myself the goal of having an entire month’s worth of comics for all seven comics completed before I post day one of any of them. I intend to have a distinct art style for each of them, but due to the sheer volume, I do not expect to actually draw and re-draw the characters and settings in every panel of every comic; there will be a lot of cut and paste, but hopefully not as bad as ME2, for most of them.
I have already completed three weeks worth of new ME2s totally done, and I have scripts for a couple of weeks worth of three or four of the other comics already completed. I’ve developed art for one of those, and have begun creating comics for it. It is turning out to be much slower-going than I had hoped. I believe that there are other factors at play, but I am certainly not creating 7 comics a day right now. I definitely believe that after I have a sufficient number of comics done, the sense of completion will boost my production efforts; as it is, I feel so bad about not being further ahead that I work extra-slow.
As I said in the forums, I am hoping to launch on 1.1.3.-1, which is only ten days away. There is a three day weekend involved, which may or may not help, and then plenty of weekday evenings before that deadline. Weekday evenings will be vital to my continued production of seven daily comics, of course, so I need to learn how to balance TV watching with comics producing. Actually, at the very least, if these comics ever see the light of day, you’ll be treated to no less than one month’s worth of new comics, with five new storylines (one of the comics (one of the two I haven’t started scripting yet) is a single panel which should not have a storyline) to enjoy. Plus, I’m going to try to release the last three I Like Blue Skies in the first three weeks that I’ll be posting the others. This brings the total minimum number of comics posted to 213. Seems like a lot, huh?
I agree. It is only when I look at it that way that it seems daunting. When I consider that a similar number of comics will be produced for any one M-W-F comic (such as Penny Arcade or Goats) in a year and a half, or any M-F comic in ten months, I think that there must be no way of completing such a task. If there were, my favorite strips (such as Penny Arcade and Goats) would be daily strips. Then I realize that some of my favorites (such as Superosity and PVP) are daily. So, it can’t be impossible, right? Iain recently estimated that it would take him as much as 84 hours/day to do seven daily comics. I recommended that he not attempt it.
As I have also mentioned in the forums, the biggest problem standing between me and this project is that I don’t have internet access at home, and could not possibly post comics every day of the week, let alone update at night. I am looking into possibly getting a script to automatically update the site for me seven days a week, but barring that, the comics would have to be updated only M-F, and when I arrive at work, not the night before. I personally don’t like that idea, but the earliest projected time for internet access at my home is October, when Cox claims I’ll be able to get Cox@Home. (insert crude, homosexual comment about not having any trouble getting cocks at home here) If worse comes to worse, and I can’t produce comics as quickly as I expect to, and I can’t arrange to get them updated daily, I may just wait to premier them until I have internet access at home.
As always, your feedback is welcome. I know you haven’t seen the comics yet, but you probably already have an opinion of them. Just let me know what that opinion is, and since I haven’t even done character studies for several of them yet, I’ll see what I can do to alienate you with them. Heck, if I can just make a few people suffer and cry, that would be good enough for me.
my main concern is that you’ll hit burn out with all of that extra work to do… pace yourself. i know you may or may not believe this, but you are human like the rest of us… be careful.
my main concern is that you’ll hit burn out with all of that extra work to do… pace yourself. i know you may or may not believe this, but you are human like the rest of us… be careful.
Yea,I didn’t want it to get deleted, and I’m to lazy to go the the message boards. I gather this is correct.
Yea,I didn’t want it to get deleted, and I’m to lazy to go the the message boards. I gather this is correct.
This refering to Sept 21st.
This refering to Sept 21st.
Marie,
Yes that is correct.. if he has not reassigned the numbering system along with the calender, he will be 23 years old on that date.
(I don’t know were he gets this nutty stuff from, certainly not from me!)
Marie,
Yes that is correct.. if he has not reassigned the numbering system along with the calender, he will be 23 years old on that date.
(I don’t know were he gets this nutty stuff from, certainly not from me!)
You have now spread your comments on this topic across three unrelated messages, all of which (at this time) still allow comments to be posted. In case you have never looked atthe archives, your comments are PERMANENTLY saved with the message you attach them to. They will only be deleted if I go in and delete them, which I am want to do.
Normally, I would not consider deleting someone else’s posts, because I don’t generally believe in censorship, but I very much want to delete your posts because they have no purpose where they are. Considering I have not posted a message on the subject of birthdays, the forums are the ONLY appropriate place to discuss birthdays. And only one click away, imagine that.
Yes, I am upset, but no it isn’t about something else. This has been bothering me since you started doing it, and will probably put me off all day.
You have now spread your comments on this topic across three unrelated messages, all of which (at this time) still allow comments to be posted. In case you have never looked atthe archives, your comments are PERMANENTLY saved with the message you attach them to. They will only be deleted if I go in and delete them, which I am want to do.
Normally, I would not consider deleting someone else’s posts, because I don’t generally believe in censorship, but I very much want to delete your posts because they have no purpose where they are. Considering I have not posted a message on the subject of birthdays, the forums are the ONLY appropriate place to discuss birthdays. And only one click away, imagine that.
Yes, I am upset, but no it isn’t about something else. This has been bothering me since you started doing it, and will probably put me off all day.
I certainly didn’t think this would upset you, I guess we can both be put off all day.
I certainly didn’t think this would upset you, I guess we can both be put off all day.
See, here I am wanting to comment on the topic that I wrote about here, and there are 5 off-topic comments standing between the casual reader and the valuable response.
I wanted to say that I am havign some good luck with continued scripting of the one’s I’ve already begun, and have got some admirable work done on completing comics for a couple of them, but I will definitely have to push back my deadline a couple of weeks.I am trying to decide between 1.3.3 and 1.1.4. If I go with 1.1.4, I have an entire extra month to get a strong backlog of comics done, as well as time to get the word out that the comics will be starting. I’d really like to see people reading these comics. I’m putting a lot of time and effort into getting them together. I think you’ll be pleasantly suprized by the differences between them, considering they’re all by me, and all have at least one character in common.
Of course, if I give myself too much time, I won’t feel adequate pressure to get them completed. Also, this is the internet. Sufficient buzz can theoretically be generated in a day or two. This isn’t like the real world where it takes months and months to get the word out about something.
Then again, I do need to do some serious coding to get the auto-updater online, and I’d like to do a little bit of a re-design for modernevil.com itself. Some of the navigation is poorly set up, and since so much hasn’t been updated in so long, I’d like to rebuild how things look. Maybe remove the links to all the other content and turn the focus to comics only. Who knows.
Your feedback is welcome, here and in the forums.
See, here I am wanting to comment on the topic that I wrote about here, and there are 5 off-topic comments standing between the casual reader and the valuable response.
I wanted to say that I am havign some good luck with continued scripting of the one’s I’ve already begun, and have got some admirable work done on completing comics for a couple of them, but I will definitely have to push back my deadline a couple of weeks.I am trying to decide between 1.3.3 and 1.1.4. If I go with 1.1.4, I have an entire extra month to get a strong backlog of comics done, as well as time to get the word out that the comics will be starting. I’d really like to see people reading these comics. I’m putting a lot of time and effort into getting them together. I think you’ll be pleasantly suprized by the differences between them, considering they’re all by me, and all have at least one character in common.
Of course, if I give myself too much time, I won’t feel adequate pressure to get them completed. Also, this is the internet. Sufficient buzz can theoretically be generated in a day or two. This isn’t like the real world where it takes months and months to get the word out about something.
Then again, I do need to do some serious coding to get the auto-updater online, and I’d like to do a little bit of a re-design for modernevil.com itself. Some of the navigation is poorly set up, and since so much hasn’t been updated in so long, I’d like to rebuild how things look. Maybe remove the links to all the other content and turn the focus to comics only. Who knows.
Your feedback is welcome, here and in the forums.