Webcomic Diversity and Power to Change

@Rochrok Rochelle H. Ragnarok
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:11:20 +0000

@Rochrok wrote:

joe_galindez:

I never said that Chris should stop writing or hide his work from the world. I told him that he should finish what he started, which is something I tell every new writer.

You called it a trunk novel. Which means he should disregard it. I'm only saying that he shouldn't be so quick to do that if he doesn't want to.

joe_galindez:

As it is now, it isn't worthy of promotion. For one thing, it's raw. For another, it's unfinished. Both of these things are temporary conditions, or at least I hope they are.

I agree, finishing it is top priority, he could very well decide to ditch it before it's done. But that goes for most of the people posting here. Not even most of the artists getting promoted by Tapas have finished their work, but they're still getting promoted.

joe_galindez:

This is like saying it doesn't matter if we hate dog poop: a quadrillion flies can't be wrong.

joe_galindez:

In this context I meant "anyone who isn't a horny housewife who doesn't know much about BDSM." So, you know, people who might actually have standards.

Actually, those flies aren't wrong, dog poop appeals to them for whatever reason it appeals to them. Now poop may not appeal to me or you (I hope), but that doesn't mean it doesn't hold any merit to the other creatures of the world.

Those horny housewives may not be your demographic but they are someone else's. There is a reason we have genre categories. What category is a "general audience"? Trying to appeal to everyone is the first step to appealing to no one. Which is why it's a fool's game.

joe_galindez:

So commercial success is the end-all and be-all of artistic expression?

No, but being a "good" artist is subjective.