start a webcomic

I’m not sure if I might be the one who actual does the drawing (so out of practice) or if I’d be better of collaborating with someone who does, but I like having a series of characters to work with and I think it would be an interesting challenge.

I have alot of ideas swarming around in my head, I’ve even completed a draft of one of my shorter stories…my biggest obstical seems to be my total laziness..

a comic which is based around Jack Skellington and Sally’s children, Tilly, Tom, and Frank

Since I’ve been spending my time going to a liberal arts school for the last four months I haven’t drawn anything for my webcomic, but two non-related strips are done! (and a whole arc featuring a pink, nihilistic, superdeformed cat has been conceptualized—what could anyone possibly want more?)

Warning: only in Danish so far, but that may change
‘Hvad fatter siger …’, ‘Min arbejdsdag’

....and got a solid story arc/character development going already.

I really like how this is going so far…

I also really like the fact that I have a ton of time (a year +) to put a lot of thought into my characters, plots, and gags before I can even begin to start fleshing this out into a real project.

I’ve always had a lot of half-formed ideas floating around in my head for this project. Last night a couple of ideas came together and for the first time I feel like I’ve found a good, solid concept to work with.

It’s of course still a fledgling concept and has a lot of growing to do, but granted like most of the other creative goals on my list, this is something that I can’t even begin to think about completing until I’m through with school. And that’s at least another year away.

Should give me plenty of time to flesh out all of my ideas though. :)

I tried and started and stopped and realized it wasn’t really something that I wanted to commit my time to, just a whim.

Wow, it’s been I while.

I’ve still been plotting and conceptualizing it. My peripheral characters are suddenly gaining personality and voice. It’s interesting one of my “bad guys” suddenly started to make sense. What I mean is, I can see where he’s coming from, he’s becoming sympathetic.

The sad part is that I’m stuck on page 3 at the moment, because it requires an action set piece, that I can’t figure out the specifics for at the moment. Part of it has to do with the question of who’s drawing the thing. This would be one of those parts that I would tailor to the artist (ie if the artist is great with cityscapes, that’s where this would be happening). I think part of it is that I need to conceptualize that action scene better, and figure out why it’s important.

When I was a kid, I was really into comic strips and even took a few summer art courses on cartooning. I wasn’t ever any good, but I did like to doodle; just never got better. So I stopped, for years. My freshman year of college, a friend or several introduced me to webcomics, and I started reading them religiously (or as close as I get to religion) and busting through all the archives, that kinda thing. I’ve thought about starting a comic with my best friend for a long time, but never got it off the ground.

All I need to know is that I will continue doing this, not just an updating whim of a webcomic. Deals are already being made with my friend, so the papers just have to be made.