atari2600land's Blog

Not to be Simon Cowell, but I find it difficult to get past the low quality artwork to get to the low quality jokes.

 

Two webcomics I read regularly are Sinfest and Schlock Mercenary. Both have collections available in book form (one measure of success), and Howard Tayler (Schlock) actually supports his family via Schlock related income!

 

That being said, I must remind myself that even Howard wasn't an overnight success. Instead, it was many years of hard work. (He gave a talk at Utah Valley University called "Talent? Who needs Talent?", available on YouTube, which I highly recommend.)

Thanks for your honest opinion. I knew I didn't have anything special here, and just wanted to see what the reaction was. I did make three more pages of stuff, if anyone is interested, and you can find them here, but if it's really as bad as you say, I guess I can quit working on it.

Thanks for your honest opinion. I knew I didn't have anything special here, and just wanted to see what the reaction was. I did make three more pages of stuff, if anyone is interested, and you can find them here, but if it's really as bad as you say, I guess I can quit working on it.

Go watch Howard Tayler's talk.

 

It's only bad if you stop now 'cause then you won't get any better; but if you put in the work then you will get better.

 

However, expecting King Features Syndicate or Universal Press Syndicate to do anything more than send you rejection letter for your current output is, IMHO, hopelessly optimistic. Your 'toons need to be funnier and drawn as well as what you see in your local newspaper for them to even consider you.

They are funny on their own... at first I didn't get that it was three, and found myself idiotically trying to figure out how it all fit together, until I figured out I was a moron... each joke is good on it's own. Together, not funny.

 

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