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New Resource for Online Comic Artists

Posted by michael on from the don't-give-up-your-day-job dept.

gmezero writes "Ten on-line comic artists from strips such as Angst Technology, Lethal Doses, and Polymer-City Chronicles have banded together and launched Rocketbox Comics in an effort to help other comic creators improve their art and to promote the idea of keeping on-line comics free."

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  1. Re:Why Black and White? by daeley · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I'm going to divide your paragraph into two, because I don't think you meant to say color = quality. At least I hope not. :) If you did, please do an Ansel Adams query on Google immediately.
    Is there a reason that most online comics are in Black and White? Is it a cost issue? A resource issue?

    More than anything, I would said it's a tradition issue. There is a long-standing Sunday-in-color, rest-of-the-week-B&W tradition in newspaper comics.

    While IANACA (...not a comics artist), how complicated color is to add would depend on how they produce the color work initially: manually or digitally. Coloring by hand takes a lot of time. Using a paintbucket in an illustration program doesn't take much at all.
    I hope that a site like this will bring better quailty to the acutal art of on-line comics.

    Same here, or at least brings more exposure to the quality comics out there. Witness PvP's announcement that their real-world books are going to be relaunched under the banner of Image Comics. Go Scott! :)

    Online comics (and I don't mean web versions of print comics) have a long way to go before reaching the same 'credibility' with the non-online world as their traditional counterparts. People like Scott Kurtz are pushing the boundaries for what influence an online comic can have offline. It might take a generation or two of people getting more news online than off for digital comics to reach the same mindshare as, say, a Cathy or Doonesbury.

    Slightly offtopic, I miss Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes more every day I open the newspaper.
    --
    I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
  2. And some apear to be doing just fine... by Obliterous · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For example, MegaTokyo.

    Hell, you've probably even seen His banner add here on slashdot.

    Piro Recently made the decision to got 100% FT on making His webcomic work, and has a dead tree version coming out this december. It seems to Me that He's doing reasonably well with making a free comic pay for itself, and possibly even put some money in His pocket....

    Not to piss on rocketbox, but Piro's doing good, and I dont see anything but vaporware promises from rocketbox yet...

    Dont get Me wrong, I read some of their comics daily, But this also means that I've been hearing about rocketBox for three months....