Headline news, everyone! As I may have told some of you, I entered my webcomic idea into THE ESCAPIST WEBCOMIC CONTEST type thing. And it lost. Hard. Not even an honorable mention :(. But I'm pretty proud of it! What I submitted to them is posted up on their site along with all 350 (more or less) entries (I'll put a link at the bottom). I haven't looked at the other entries yet (except for the winning one. Congrats to them!) so I can't really tell you whether they're any good or not.
Free-hand MS paint loses to fancy photoshop again :(
I'd use a fancier program to do my work in, but it takes me forever when I do. My brain thinks of new things faster than I can draw, so I tend to lose interest in my work really quickly. MS paint is the quickest way.
Here's a link to my comic on their site. Scroll down and click on the cool one, "FLEE."
It's got a brief description of what I was doing with my comic. I was trying to do something that sort of spit in the face of conventional gaming comics (like the ones I've been making fun of on this blog) and dealt with "gaming" as more of a means to "escape," Hence the name, "FLEE." I tried to be "out there" but not too "out there."
I used MST3k as inspiration for the story. You know; average joe gets kidnapped into space and is forced to go through these horrible experiments to somehow benefit his dark overlords in a way he'd never quite understand. That sort of thing. FLEE was going to have some minor story segments outside the video game "experiments" much like Joel/Mike and the bots did with their Invention Exchanges and little skits. The "experiments" themselves were going to be a mix of impressions of existing games/gaming trends - but poking fun in a more "right side of the brain" way.
Oh well. To be honest, I was relieved. I was almost frightened to death that I might win.
Click here to see the winning comic.
Click here for the "Honorable Mentions"
And here's mine in its entirety so far.
I think I'll probably continue this on the Fun Drome. I'll let you guys know if I do more.
Bacon Requiem -
ReplyDeleteI'd question this, but am aware it is likely i have answered myself: so you can only upload one single portion? That's pretty lame, you'd have a greater chance at winning if they let you use this entire thing, instead of one section. Which taken away from the others parts wasn't nearly as cool.
Likely you have answered yourself? Eh? How -What are you - anyway!
ReplyDeleteThe answer is, uh, no? I think. The max pages I could upload were four pages. When you click the "FLEE" icon on their website, it'll show you one page at a time, but there are little "next page" and "previous page" buttons at the bottom.