to post or not to post...
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johncomicHunter has an account on DrunkDuck where he posts his comics -- he sez it's a friendlier site for ongoing comics than DeviantArt. Anyhoo, I'm thinking of signing up for one so's I can post my new big project I keep babbling about here rather than actually drawing [I know! It's not ready to draw yet, I have so much development still to do, I know...]...
I was also thinking of posting my one of my old works. When I was doing my BA back in the mid-70s, I produced about fifty pages of a sword & sorcery graphic novel. (In those days I referred to it as a “comic novel”, cuz the term “graphic novel” had not yet been coined. Back then I actually thought I had invented the whole concept of the graphic novel, so I also invented my own terminology to describe it.)
Anyway, Hunter thinks I shouldn't post it. It isn't finished and I have no intention of finishing it. Once I reached those fifty-odd pages, I broke my drawing hand, had it operated on, and had to re-learn how to draw. After which, my style had irrevocably changed and I was never able to draw like that old self again. If I resumed work on it, it'd look like the artist had changed in mid-stream. Besides, IMHO it's an immature derivative work that doesn't deserve my time and attention today. So that's why I have no plans to complete it. Hunter thinks it'll disgruntle my audience to start them off on a story and leave them hanging. I already did that with Dishman, why put people thru that again?
On the other hand, this [fragmentary] work has only ever been seen by a handful of old friends, and part of me is curious about how it would go over with a larger audience. So part of me wants to put it out there and find out.
Any thoughts or comments?
I was also thinking of posting my one of my old works. When I was doing my BA back in the mid-70s, I produced about fifty pages of a sword & sorcery graphic novel. (In those days I referred to it as a “comic novel”, cuz the term “graphic novel” had not yet been coined. Back then I actually thought I had invented the whole concept of the graphic novel, so I also invented my own terminology to describe it.)
Anyway, Hunter thinks I shouldn't post it. It isn't finished and I have no intention of finishing it. Once I reached those fifty-odd pages, I broke my drawing hand, had it operated on, and had to re-learn how to draw. After which, my style had irrevocably changed and I was never able to draw like that old self again. If I resumed work on it, it'd look like the artist had changed in mid-stream. Besides, IMHO it's an immature derivative work that doesn't deserve my time and attention today. So that's why I have no plans to complete it. Hunter thinks it'll disgruntle my audience to start them off on a story and leave them hanging. I already did that with Dishman, why put people thru that again?
On the other hand, this [fragmentary] work has only ever been seen by a handful of old friends, and part of me is curious about how it would go over with a larger audience. So part of me wants to put it out there and find out.
Any thoughts or comments?
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Date: 2009-12-04 02:34 am (UTC)