In the first chapter of How To Make Webcomics, the authors remind me to get my priorities straight and at first just concentrate on making my comic. Get a bunch of comics made. Don’t worry, they say, about fancy websites or making t-shirts with your characters on them. “Focus on your Webcomic first.” Right, guys, I hear ya. There are already too many distractions in my life that keep me from getting the comic written and drawn (I hope this blog doesn’t end up being one).
It’s not as easy as I thought it would be. I have daydreams of making little books with my strips printed so many on a page, mailing them out to my friends and selling them at conventions. Hey, come back to earth, Dave! You don’t even have a month’s worth of strips done yet! So get to the drawing table and draw, Dave. Do it now.
I have gone back and totally redrawn four strips already, one of them a double sized color strip. I spent a lot of time trying to redo things to get them just right. The book tells me to just post the strip the way it is and move on to the next strip, that here is another chance to get things better in the next cartoon. Advice I promise to follow more closely from now on. So get to the drawing table, Dave. Do it now.
And the book tells me not forget that cartoons are fun. Even though I intend on doing a lot of hard work, I am gonna have a blast doing it. So get to the drawing table, Dave. Do it now!
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