I've had the story for this mini sitting around in my sketchbooks for almost a year now. I knew I wanted to make it "someday"...but this fund-raising venture has really given me a kick in the butt.
I think the hardest challenge I deal with in my personal comic-making is deciding what kind of comics I make. I'm surrounded almost exclusively by boys, having never been very good at making friends with girls. As such, I sometimes forget that there are comics outside of the superhero/macho-man/adventure/fight-scene type. I start thinking that maybe the only way to succeed in this business is to make those type of comics.
Unfortunately, those comics don't really interest me. I guess I have the internet and its immense capacity for underground and web-based comics that encompass slice-of-life, diary/autobio, psychological, mystery, horror and other genres that don't really fit into the Marvel/DC world-view.
I just need to constantly remind myself that if I just make the comics that I would want to read, maybe somewhere, other people might like it too
I NEED TO MAKE ME ONE OF THOSE TO DO LISTS ---->
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I want to read your comics! :) I get alot of hassle from my tutors about 'audience' and I've had the opposite problem, I get told off for making them 'too girly'
PSSSH to them! :D Draw what you like!!! :D We all love you just the same!
(oh! And I'm your friend!)
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Making things you like, and what you want to read is the best idea, cause surely there's gonna be more people out there that's gonna want to read them, but also cause it'll keep you happy, doing something you like instead of trying to appeal to the masses, doing something you don't care about!
ReplyDeletei agree with pili! if you don't like what you're doing it will translate in your work. and so far i am adoring everything i am seeing from you! =)
ReplyDeleteApril -- You're way more motivated and productive than I could ever be. You'd make your to-do list then be done with it an hour later! LOL
ReplyDeletePili & Deb -- Thanks you guys! Its true, I'd rather make not-so-popular but good (i think) comics than mediocre ones that I don't really like.