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Oh my passive aggressive nature so wants to set a reminder to revive this post in about a year...

Aug 2, '21

Any comic artists/writers here that aren't ACTUALLY artists/writers?

Full-time electrical engineer here doing embedded software development. I got interested in drawing comics in high school, but I've only had one art class my entire life. As far as writing goes, I guess my only experience is running role playing games for my friends. Jim

Jun 3, '21

You do comedy comics? Share here one of your best jokes!

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This was a long time ago, but it's always been my favorite strip. For context I was doing a series on Robohub dealing with automated driving and the difficulty programmers will face when it comes to "no win" scenarios. [image]

Jan 13, '21

Have you drawn food in your comics? I’d love to see it!

Does robot food count? [image]

Mar 18, '20

March of Robots 2020!

Events | Challenges

I wish I had more oomph to participate, but I just wanted to comment that every morning I come in to work looking forward to seeing the updates on this thread!

Mar 11, '20

March of Robots 2020!

Events | Challenges

Here's a robot I designed that I fizzled out of energy on to complete a comic: [image]

Mar 2, '20

March of Robots 2020!

Events | Challenges

I love robots (I have two robot comics I'm doing). I'll try and get drawn but here's some from inktober 2018 that I did. [image] (EDIT: My caption on this one was "Policebot is not amused by your shennanigans!")[image][image][image]more

Nov 15, '19

Where to find job as commission artist?

There's a website that I think is for this, but I'm not crazy familiar with it: https://artistsnclients.com/

Sep 23, '19

The "Create For Yourself" Fallacy

I think everything you said is right on point. Yes, don't tie your self worth to your "numbers", but doggone it who writes a story expecting that it will never be read or heard? I mean if you sit at a table with your friends and go "hey guys, you should have been there last night, what a great sto…

Aug 6, '19

HELP! How much should I charge?

Answered

Don't make less than minimum wage. I'm not sure how high to go, but always set your floor. So if you put 30 hours in, it seems like the lowest you should ask would be $217.50?

Jul 31, '19

WebcomicsApp - Why is my comic here?

Yeah, I'd like to know where the "Score" came from.

Jul 24, '19

Sick and Scared

I posted in another forum about this, but I have FSHD (facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy). It's a degenerative muscle disease that's inherited yet somehow I was a lucky "spontaneous" case. Unlike DMD, it doesn't kill you when you're young, but it affects skeletal muscle. My shoulders are inc…

Jul 23, '19

Share your Disability (and comic/novel!)

I have muscular dystrophy, a type called FSHD. It's a degenerative muscle disease where I gradually lose muscle strength (often asymmetrically). It started with me losing my ability to raise my arms above my head in high school, then my facial muscles got weak on my left side. Most recently (a co…

Jul 9, '19

10 Webcomic Anniversary

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Today marks the 10 year anniversary of when I uploaded the first episode of Nate the Robot (my main webcomic). I wish I had something exciting to show for it, but I don't. When I started, my oldest had just started school and my youngest was a toddler. Finding time to re-learn how to draw, lear…

Jun 28, '19

Character Designs For Fighters

But what if you're fighting tall grass?

May 31, '19

Making an online shop for free or cheap

I've been researching this too. So far I've found a couple options, but I think I'm going to settle on Etsy, and use Gooten to do print on demand. They are able to integrate with Etsy which is nice. Probably the worse bummer is you can't have a custom URL, you have to redirect.

Apr 3, '19

The robot dictionary

I'm working on rewriting my comic to have more of these. One I came up with was: man, "Did you have a rough day?" robot, "Time does not possess a texture."

Mar 27, '19

Has anyone created a card game for their comic

The writer for one of my comics has made one up but we haven't had a chance to playtest it much yet.

Mar 26, '19

Slowed updates or hiatus?

To clarify something I didn't put in the original post, this is much less about improving the art and more about making the whole series into a cohesive story. I started this series in 2009 and had no idea what to do with it other than I wanted to make a comic and I thought I had a funny gag about …

Mar 25, '19

Slowed updates or hiatus?

Suppose you were reworking your comic from newspaper (3-4 panel) to comic (full page) and you were at the end of a chapter using the new format, and wanted to go back and update the earlier "chapters" to match the full comic format, do you think it's better to: Take a hiatus and update all the …

Mar 20, '19

Tips for dealing with social anxiety

I don't know that it's been mentioned here, but medicine really helps me. When I was younger (30s and below, I'm currently 47), I could get away with a various number of different suggestions on this page, but as I got older, my body didn't seem to handle it as well and I'd lose sleep and feel terr…

Mar 6, '19

Small question to you all

Yeah, would that be more like a "period drama"?

Mar 5, '19

Small question to you all

Remember, I said in gaming (role playing games) and not works of fiction. I did a quick google search and older gamers like me tend to think of the terms like I do =). But now that I looked up the Wikipedia, I for sure understand what it means in fiction.

Mar 5, '19

Small question to you all

I didn't do a very good job, but I was just trying to clarify that it's still fantasy. I was using fantasy RPG definitions rather than literary, but was just meaning that there are two ends of the spectrum. Where a certain fantasy story lands is probably subjective (unless you're a the extreme). …

Mar 5, '19

Small question to you all

In Gaming, I think that's referred to "low fantasy". When you add magic and weird creatures it's called "high fantasy".

Mar 1, '19

Publishing comics

Yes on both counts. I use Greko for conventions, although you can still buy copies of your book (discounted) from KDP. If I remember when I priced it out for my first book, KDP wasn't a good price on color books until you went above the minimum number of pages (they are perfect bound). So like f…

Mar 1, '19

What's it take to get YOU to click Like on a comic you read?

[Before I make my joke, I want to totally agree with you] If you think of good/bad as binary, then [not bad] = good? (apologies for the bad engineer humor)

Mar 1, '19

Publishing comics