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Daily Grind Webcomic Challenge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the this-could-go-for-awhile dept.

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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  1. Re:ctrl alt del! by Carthag · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Diesel Sweeties would probably win, if R. Stevens signed up. He said he's not going to, though.

  2. Re:ctrl alt del! by NeoSkink · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll take quality over 5 updates a week anyday.

    Forcing them to update constantly would likely kill the comics we know and love until the contest is over.

  3. Quantity over Quality by lbmouse · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't appear that any of the strips have to actually be good. Me and my stick-figure-guy could win this one.

    1. Re:Quantity over Quality by CoffeeJedi · · Score: 3, Insightful

      are either of these comics relevant anymore?

      I still read UF every day, just out of habit, I havne't laughed at it in about a year. The only good storyline he's had in ages was the "The Thing" parody in Anarctica, but other than that, Illiad's just phoning it in.

      As for Dilbert, it was cutting edge 10 years ago, but Adams has let it stagnate, its still the same tired joke told by the same nonentity archetype characters. To put it bluntly, its the new Garfield. its good for a chuckle, but its not engaging like PvP or Sluggy Freelance.

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  4. Re:ctrl alt del! by carninja · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Penny arcade only updates 3 times a week, and I doubt they really wanna change that.

  5. Nice way to borrow money by Yomers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nice way to borrow money from those 'big webcomic artists' ;)) I bet at least 2 of them will produce 5 comics a week for a very long time...

  6. Re:ctrl alt del! by Rei · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah... some comics "cheat" every so often. For example, Sluggy Freelance almost never misses an issue; however, as an example, they recently took a few days off by making comics via using X-com screenshots and putting dialog bubbles on the characters instead of drawing comics. Sometimes, too, they'll have a guest artist (sometimes a deliberately poor one for comic effect) take over strip for a week or so.

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  7. Re:What about quality ? by grungebox · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Darby Conley does the strip for a living. He doesn't need a time machine, just the extra 8 hours a day the rest of us are working. It's still an awesome strip, and it makes shittily-drawn and shittily-written strips that much worse by comparison, but just keep in mind he's not quite the superman most webcomics people with fulltime jobs and a daily strip must be.

  8. Anyone intrested in a 20 year, no-intrest loan? by delmoi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sorry. It would be extreemly easy for someone (or a couple people) to keep doing something once a day for the rest of their lives. I predict this is going to take a very long time to resolve.

    Now, it might be intresting they put the money into a mutual fund or something, so that if the contest did take years, the reward would be worth it

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