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How Not To Start A Webcomic #20
Contributed by Jason Bryant of Quest Of The Silly
Jason says:
What's wrong with it?:
- Lazy art to be posting. Showing an intermediate step can be cool if there's also info on how you make your comic, but a very small, very sloppy drawing isn't much more interesting than no comic at all.
- The artist makes the mistake of thinking that school is more important than the comic. Kidding! Seriously, if you're doing a filler strip on your third comic, you should reconsider your update schedule. There's nothing wrong with any schedule that your fans can hold you to, even if that is no schedule at all.
Phalanx says:
- It's a filler. In your archive. Fillers do not belong in archives. Take em out! It ruins the readability of your archives. There is nothing more annoying than fillers in archives. In case you don't get it... Fillers are fine to keep your audience at bay when you are late for deadline, but replace with the actual comic when you're done.
Saving graces: Not in this one.
Terotrous says:
Again, bonus points for not starting a comic at all.
mcDuffies says:
It's so true it makes me cry.
I've seen so much "Uh-oh, can't draw, must study" messages that they made permanent damage to me (for one, I stopped reading "Avalon" and was pretty much close to stopping reading "Sluggy" because of amount of fillers).
As cruel as it sounds, reader doesn't care about your school problems and actually he shouldn't (he probably has his own school problems). Right thing to do is announce a hiatus, change the schedule, even skip an update with no explanation, anything but don't try to cheat a reader with a cheep comic-substitute.
Another thing: Artists seem to think that right after second or third comic, their readers are already so attached to their characters, that they'll actually come back. I've seen comics starting with guest strips at third comic. Where did they get those guest comics anyway?
Gotta shake hands with Jason for this one.
