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OK, that title should guarantee a few views at least!
Sadly, I'm talking about folks who do comic strips, as opposed to books.
I've been approached by an artist who wants to do a web-comic in a strip format. We had been kicking around an idea, but I had a new baby in the house and he got busy so it kinda died. Now we're back and rolling.
He's got the idea in his head that he wants to do the thing in strip format. The idea would fit. We were going with something that has a serious retro feel, and he was thinking of doing something like the old Flash Gordon news-strips.
I'm used to doing regular 22 page comic stories or arc-parts, so this is something new. In all honesty, the prospect terrifies me. Which I think is good, because it's gonna push me.
Does anyone have an experience or ideas/insights? I can see that on a daily basis (even weekly) you might want a hook ending or a cliffhanger, but then it seems to me that you do that, it gets collected into a print version (which would be a later goal) and the cliffhanger every four panels or so gets real old, real fast.
Avoid the cliffhangers and in the short-term, you likely get no views, or repeat views.
As things stand, I've talked him out of doing this and we're working a different project (not just because of my nerves), but this one is there still.
I wanna do it, but I wanna do it right.
Thoughts?
Sadly, I'm talking about folks who do comic strips, as opposed to books.
I've been approached by an artist who wants to do a web-comic in a strip format. We had been kicking around an idea, but I had a new baby in the house and he got busy so it kinda died. Now we're back and rolling.
He's got the idea in his head that he wants to do the thing in strip format. The idea would fit. We were going with something that has a serious retro feel, and he was thinking of doing something like the old Flash Gordon news-strips.
I'm used to doing regular 22 page comic stories or arc-parts, so this is something new. In all honesty, the prospect terrifies me. Which I think is good, because it's gonna push me.
Does anyone have an experience or ideas/insights? I can see that on a daily basis (even weekly) you might want a hook ending or a cliffhanger, but then it seems to me that you do that, it gets collected into a print version (which would be a later goal) and the cliffhanger every four panels or so gets real old, real fast.
Avoid the cliffhangers and in the short-term, you likely get no views, or repeat views.
As things stand, I've talked him out of doing this and we're working a different project (not just because of my nerves), but this one is there still.
I wanna do it, but I wanna do it right.
Thoughts?