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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."
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"they must updated their comics 5 times a week"
I swear, someone is putting nonsensical grammar into every single article, just to see how we squirm and ped.
My other processor is big-endian.
Squidi hasn't missed more than perhaps one or two updates in two years on A Modest Destiny. But, he is rather unpopular among the webcomic community
I think anyone that's ever tried a webcomic knows that consistency is the biggest challenge. It's hard to develop a routine and get strips up in a timely fashion with some degree of regularity. That's a critical factor in determining a strip's early success at drawing an audience. Internet users are lazy, and if you don't have any timeliness, they move on. People might counter with Mac Hall or Megatokyo, but those premiered during a slightly less dense webcomic atmosphere. Also, they drew audiences in with the art, which is the other key component. You can slack off on the updates if your art kicks ass and still maintain a decent audience. Hell, if you get both you become a rising megastar like Apple Geeks or Scary Go Round.
Or Schlock Mercenary. Hasn't missed an update ever. He said he wasn't entering because it would get boring if it went on for years without a winner.
I'm surprised that more comics don't do this where the author of Sam and Fuzzy states that he has a buffer of about 22 comics so he never misses an update.
Of course, he only updates MWF so he's not eligible for the pool.
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Not only Chris Crosby, Brad Guigar, Ryan Smith and Steve Troop have joined from KeenSPOT... ...but up and comming artists Jennie Breeden (The Devil's Panties), Bruce Goer (A Day in the Life), and Matt Johnson (Cortland) have joined from KeenSPACE.
The SPACE team WILL WIN!!!
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Angels 2200
Wandering Ones
Something Positive
The Devil's Panties
General Protection Fault
Irregular Web Comic
Alien Dice
Wapsi Square
Bruno
Clan of the Cats
There's plenty more at my web comic page.
I drank what? -- Socrates
After reading your post, I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt and see if indeed PBF is just a weekly three-panel swear word.
:P
Here's what I found:
The following words/phrases appear only once in the entire archive: penis, porno, "monkey love", "uck", sex, "space-sex", "what the f-", booty, hermaphrodites, gay, gay-wad, crap, "you guys sock" [sic].
"shit", "rack", and "Shitashi" appear twice each, and "weeaboo" appears five times.
In the entire archive, there is not one single instance of either "wang" or "fuck", so I just wasted ten minutes of my life feeding your troll.
However, the phrases "a bunny giving oral sex to a girl with a skirt" and "Unicorn POWER!" are there, so you may just have a point.
Not to mention the aptly-named Order of the Stick