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Yeah, I don't know what's going on but these days seems like a miracle when we have two days without horrible news. May them rest in peace.
Yep. My problem is two-fold: Upsurge lies between fantasy and mistery in a way, (with slice of life elements). And then there's the fact that it's not regular fantasy, just urban fantasy. People tend to expect, you know, magical creatures and kingdoms and stuff. But my series is just set in an alter…
18:55 here in Spain. Finished working some pages, now hating my work dilligently.
I hate twitter. All of it. If a new meteorite grazed the earth only to selectively get rid of all the servers where twitter exists and replicates as that mutant fungus it is, I would be very happy. I'm playing it up, but not by much. I'm tired of the constant source of drama and miscommunication …
I like a lot of pages of Upsurge (I don't draw them, only do the composition of panels in the page), the most recent one being this one: [image] This one from Three Suns (which I do draw) [image]
Yeah, but these days we have tons of works trying to achieve the same goals. There's works that want to show you a deeper message, others than only want you to have fun... surely you can compare works within the same intention (One piece vs Dragon Ball), and not only that, you can compare works with…
Don quixote was a success, so much so that people made fake sequels and Cervantes was forced to make the true sequel. Shakespeare didn't do bad for himself in his time. He was well-received. Obviously no-one saw him as he is today, because you need time and perspective to do that. Flaubert's Madam…
Yeah, I just said I don't like the kind of artist who tries to do "generic manga style". Same goes for "generic superhero art". And so forth. I don't mind someone whose influences tend to be all manga artists, but that's already different than "generic manga style". Otomo is manga, Toriyama is man…
No, I get it, I just think the point of the thread is a little... diffuse (meaning, ok, every comic takes effort, so what?) and there's an implicit conflation of the point that people may have about comics that lack effort. But yeah, I basically agree with you.
In general, I'm more critical about art that doesn't have any amount of originality. I'm more pissed off (exaggerated expression not to be taken literally) at the artist who, while showing technique, doesn't show any personality by being "manga artist #33" than someone who lacks quality for whatever…
The league of extraordinary gentleman was pretty bad, certainly not getting the comic at all. And Spawn.
@alaingrey: I didn't say that and I don't think what has success in the "real world" has gone through "democratic" success. Don't jump so fast, dude. Not allowing the two-page display to be mobile friendly is only one symptom, not the whole case. Edit: now that I've read @donathinfrye answer, what h…
But that's the thing. Just because this is basically driven by inmediate reader demand doesn't mean it's any good, even for tapastic, in the long run. You create an environment, and modes of consumption, that goes against other type of stuff. I still think it's a travesty they don't allow the two …
Let's see. Upsurge. Urban fantasy series about a guy accused of a murder (through demon-summoning) that he didn't commit. Inspired by The Sopranos, the Wire, and Alan Moore's and Grant Morrison's comics. [image] Three Suns. Weird western. A bounty hunter with magic powers tries to survive in a …
Yeah, I don't know about tapastic, but I tried to advertise through facebook and boy it's been a long learning experience, and a very counterintuitive one. There's so much "fake" likes that if you advertise the facebook page the site gets bloated with fake subscribers who don't participate... To the…
It will still be read and discussed after you're dead, whereas Garfield will likely fade into obscurity. Your "everything is relative" position ultimately becomes a very absolutist position, where what you don't like equals bad, and what you like is good. That doesn't foster criticisim or creative s…
Quality is not entirely subjective, no. Even if you don't like James Joyce's Ulysses you would be a fool to try to argue that is worse than Twilight just because is not as popular, or that they can't be compared because they are different works with different audiences. Yes, they are for different a…
Just because it requires effort to make a popular webcomic doesn't mean that what usually trends or gets popular is any good, which, while you're not saying it, seems to be implied. In fact, the sole fact that these discussions tend to center around whether getting popular is difficult or not alread…
Well, maybe they want to exclude porn for advertisement purposes... I guess advertisers wouldn't be so keen to appear here if they hear that the page has porn material.
I only have some Moebius stuff, sadly. And I'm very interested in this new Heavy Metal version edited by Grant Morrison, but... I'm in Spain, so it's difficult to get a copy.
Paneling is something I enjoy a lot to do. So... there you go. All from Upsurge: [image] [image] [image] [image]
You don't owe nothing to the readers other than your imagination and art at the best of your abilities. If that means that there's a reason for a cliffhanger that may never see a follow-up, go for it. Of course, it should make some kind of sense, there should be thematic reasons for that, but that g…
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Sure. This is the one I would like to put in the ad: Upsurge.
I would also like to know more about your comic, it's quite possible that our potential audiences are too different 
Would you mind if it's black and white art?
Spanish, Catalan and, to a lesser degree, Galician. Yeah, I have three native languages, depending where you're born in Spain is fairly easy to be bilingual at birth and in some special cases, such as mine, trilingual.
Un saludo y tened un gran día 
This is critical. People don't get that stories are not objective realities. People at NBC thought Seinfeld wasn't a good series because everyone else had a very strict tried and true formula, and Larry David's writing broke that because he based the writing on real life, not formulas. The result …
Yeah, that's the rule of the Internet for sure.
shaneoid is right. I think tapastic is very shortsighted in that regard; I get that they want to promote people with followers in other media so that they register here, but I think, in the long term, being the first promoters of comics will get them a lot more brand recognition and prestige than pr…
Check out Upsurge, a series of magic, conspiracies and stuff like that, or... [image] Three Suns, a series inspired by Deadwood and Star Wars. [image]