Create a Web-Comic

I’ve always wanted to do this. I cannot recall a time in my life where I did not feel an inclination for the art of graphic story-telling… I will find time to do it this month. Or bust!

Well http://www.drunkduck.com/Goober_Nice_To_Meep_You/
is doing well.

Next I’m working on the buffer for the second comic that I had in mind, this one is much more serious and not so much a childrens story.

here we in the midway and doing bumper cars…

I’ll be updating twice a week, once on wednsday and then again I think on sunday night monday mornings.

http://www.drunkduck.com/Goober_Nice_To_Meep_You/index.php?p=541235

should take you there.

Once I get the second page up this weekend I’ll put up a homepage for it with a better description and some art and thumbnails. Maybe work on some banners and such.

When that is all set I’ll post this as done.

I’ve made myself a fairly massive buffer of ready comics to keep me well ahead of the current posts. I’m thinking I might make it so that I can get the first book compiled and printed before half of it makes it on line and then sell it to those that would like to have it now rather then wait for the updates.

Goober shall make an appearance on the first if I play things right.

I was aiming for kind of geeky with a child like innocence to it and what is coing out is cutesie and fun.

I’ve enough for six months of weekly posting thus far but I want to get the first volume of Goober: Nice to meep you. Set and finished. I’ll then work on bonus materials and such before seeing about publishing it as a book.

Then while I keep making the comic I’ll start my other comic idea and build a buffer for that one as well.

The Goober comic already has some side stories that might get published and sold in book form without going up on the web. Basically they are the stories of Never and how he came to be as he is today. They are sort of sad but sweet stories.

Still have four more web comic ideas in the back of my head too. I’m thinking I’m not going to be doing six at a time though.

I started building what I call my buffer. Each day I create two parts to my comic in a sketch book. Once I have at least 48 I plan to start preparing to post the first to the web and add one a week from then on.

Maybe at a later date I will make it twice a week, while I continue to make one a day. This allows me to stay far ahead enough to prevent dead time and filler from things coming up unexpectedly.

Once I have enough buffer I will start doing my second comic in buffer. Hopefully by August I will have two web comics going.

It’s intresting to note how much it feels like work though. I spend less then an hour a day at it but to get it done is so much more then just doodling silly ideas.

I’m sitting on something like six ideas for web comics and some of them are years old with whole story sequences drifting around in the back of my head. Some are about two and a half weeks old.

But It’s one of my goals this year to make at least one real, and hopefully more then one.

Now I’ve just got to do them and not just random sketches and thinking about them.

I found some ideas for managing, branding, and doing other stuff with your webcomic on ehow. com:

http://www.ehow.com/Search.aspx?s=webcomic&Options=0

so I made a mock up of the first 8 issues (based on a weekly schedule).
It’s more of a comic strip than comic book. I’ve based it on some characters a friend of mine in high school and I created called the StickFig 5. Etremely sophomoric (aka borderline bad taste).
When I make the real ones, I’ll post them on my blog and link them here.