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Daily Grind Webcomic Challenge
Dauntilus writes "Bent Comics is sponsering a web-comic contest. Contestants put $20 into the pool, and they must update their comics 5 times a week. If they fail to update on time, they are out. Last artist in gets the pool. The contest started yesterday with a sweet $1,120 in the pot. A few big webcomic artists like Scott Kurtz (PVP) and Chris Crosby (Superosity) have even show up for the fun."
When you are able to produce something that looks that fucking awesome in Illustrator and are able to do it 5 days a week, come back and talk to us here.
How about Greg Dean do that first, then we'll talk. Not everyone loves reading a comic based on copy-n-paste that reuses the same lame jokes over and over again. Enough with the Shirt Ninja already.
Huh, WTF are you ranting about? All I said was that I didn't care for his "screw you for not getting my 'me acting like a zombie' strip."
I never said anything to him about how he should run his comic, and I probably wouldn't have had a problem if that strip went unexplained. I didn't care for his comic rant attacking readers for not understanding the joke, thus I stopped reading it. All comics can insult their readers as much as they like, just don't be surprised if you lose some fans over it.
As for the Scott Kurtz I stopped finding his stuff funny when he actively attacked other web comics, and people such as Angst Technology's Barry Smith. Just like the real life comic, I said nothing and stopped reading his stuff after that.
I am still not sure how to take your rant since I don't read it anymore, don't care to see todays comic, and I didn't say anything about his drawings, or doing a web comic five days a week.
Heh. Now that his toaster of a server is back online, and I can view the comic: yeah, we saw those characters before. The SWAT team were used like a year ago as Counter-Strike players. The FBI agent is another one of his generic characters the gets reused for "authority figure" type characters, with some palette swapping. The rest of it are just characters that have been scaled larger, with limbs rotated.
I'll give him credit for panel 3 with the cigarette, but - come on. I'd go through the past comics, if they were still accessible, but every other panel is just reused old art. (And even in panel 3, the size of the hands is all wrong. First person to claim "perspective" gets shot with one of those MP5s that's always perpendicular to the viewer. That's not perspective, that's the right hand dwarfing the left. They're supposed to be right next to each other, cupped together. But one hand is clearly larger than the other.)
Please, don't kid yourself. It's just copy, paste, rotate, scale. It doesn't quite equate to someone who has to actually draw their comic, by hand, for each day. Yeah, it's still decent, but it's no where near as impressive as Penny Arcade or PVP or Mega-Tokyo.
Hell, I'd even place Illiad above Dean in effort. At least Illiad draws each comic, instead of just copys a previous one, arranges shapes, and edit text balloons.
You enjoy it? That's fine. Just don't pretend Dean puts anywhere near the effort into his comic as actual artists put into their drawings.