My initial goal was to get my stuff read by folks who want to read it.
Seems like that's happening.
So mission accomplished.
Next step: Get it optioned for the next mega-budget Zach Snyder block buster. We're in talks. Well. I'm in talks. No one's really talking to me. Really… I haven't done much talking either. No one to talk to really.
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If anything could happen...what would you like to see come from your work here?!?
All I'm really aiming to do at the moment is to get Shades finished, so I can then tackle the next big hurdle of getting a print version made. I know print is not considered essential by a lot of webcomickers but Shades was written with a view to it being read in one stretch and, to my mind, that's just so much easier with a nicely bound dead tree in your hands!
I suppose if "anything could happen" I'd then want that nicely bound dead tree to make me millions. But I'm not counting on it!
:D
I put my comics up here as mirrors in an attempt to get more exposure/readership from a comic-specific community. I feel a little more motivated to get pages done when people here respond. :D I enjoy making the pages greatly, but I also enjoy other people enjoying them.
As for why I make comics in the first place… storytelling + art. I want to do them, and I want to do them well. I have to have at least one memorable sequential story before I die.
I often joke with my husband that my comic will become an animated movie and Ayumi Hamasaki will sing the movie's theme. She's doing it for the Dragon Ball movie, she can do it for an unknown comic's movie someday too. haha!
Honestly, I draw comics because I enjoy drawing the pages and putting them up for my friends to read. I'm surprised others who I don't know enjoy the comic and send me comments. :3 I do kinda want to be invited to an anime con as a guest someday…but that's my little dream.
Nadya has a massive future ahead of her. I would love for her story to become the next 'Inverloch' or 'Purgatory Tower'. But, if we're talking nutso dreams that won't ever happen, I'd love to see a movie come about. Sometimes I wonder what the trailer would look like. :)
I lol everytime someone seriously thinks their comic is going to be made into a film. (and not some direct to dvd realease and never spoken of again)
Realistic expectations for the comic writer/a.k.a dream crushing
I lol everytime someone seriously thinks their comic is going to be made into a film. (and not some direct to dvd realease and never spoken of again)
Realistic expectations for the comic writer/a.k.a dream crushing
Aw Skullbie, have a heart! Comicbooks are 'serial art'! They move in a sequential, cinematic way–this is why so many comic books currently are being made into successful movies. The comic IS the storyboard! For many creators, this cinematic quality naturally lends itself to the idea that the story might make a fantastic movie. And who is to say?
There is probably as much chance of a comic here getting a movie option as there is of me finding a comment from Chris Claremont on my latest page. Pretty slim. But there was no limit on the wish fulfilment factor here!
I'll bet a lot of creators here simply wish they had your rating and following. Drunk Duck might seem like a pretty small pond over all, but it has some mighty big fish swimming in it!
If you shoot for unrealistic expectations, you can still get pretty big results.
If you do it right, that is. Focus too much on one thing and you'll just fail horribly and be set back. Waaay back.
A few years ago I did a fake animated movie poster for one of my comics… the poster's horribleness aside, after I tried fake-casting voice actors from somewhat popular people I realized just how impossible that would be, lol. It's nice to imagine, though. I see all my stories as animated films or full-fledged movies in my head first. They're more impressive that way.
Anyway, at most, I can animate my own comic-based shorts in a year or two, when I have the motivation to do that, lol. Already working on foolish little Flash games for 'em.
i'm still f***ing speechless that my book was chosen for the feature this thursday. to say i was humbled is an understatement.
i literally about pissed myself when i woke up on thursday to upload my new page. i think that checks off #1 from my list of things to accomplish by posting my comic on this site.
now if i can get past chapter 8…..that is the real test.
For CQB Epics:
1) get popular on the internets
2) get about 100-120 pages for to make trade paper back, and then one day walk into a comic book shop, see it and then be all like, "Damn, I'm good!" and then walk out.
For not really CQB related, I was thinking of making a fire arm reference series to fund my gun/airsoft hobby collecting. Like sell a 20+ page PDF featuring one gun for like $2. have it shown disassembled, close ups, details, and all that crap, and then have models to pose and all. And then that goes to packs that go for like $6. and then eventually when I have enough, print it. it'll be like an encyclopedia.
There are a few things i'd like to see come out of my work, as I spend a hefty amount of time on my comics every week :3:
1.)I want readers to enjoy reading and looking at my comics. This is probably at the very top of the list for me. What's the point of spending hours a week on a few strips if people aren't enjoying them :p?
2.)To finish both of my comics. TF is already on the road to that. My second comic just started about a couple months ago, but I have really high hopes for it making it to the end as well^^.
3.)To receive as much recognition and readership as I can. Without a doubt, no one can go wrong with a little extra readership and a chance to get in to the big spotlight (ie: Drunk Duck feature) ^^.
4.)My heart isn't fully set on this, but who says I can't dream xD? I want my comics to take me somewhere one day. Everybody does. Our comics often times become apart of us, I know that's the case with me :3. I want to push these babies as far as they can go xD.
i'm still f***ing speechless that my book was chosen for the feature this thursday. to say i was humbled is an understatement.
i literally about pissed myself when i woke up on thursday to upload my new page. i think that checks off #1 from my list of things to accomplish by posting my comic on this site.
now if i can get past chapter 8…..that is the real test.
Congrats!
I think the DD feature spot is like one of the Holy Grails of doing a comic here. Like earning 'Badges' in City of Heroes, without that shiny "Feature Badge" on your home page, it looks kinda poor.
Frankly, I can't imagine how cool it must feel…and yep, I'd probably piss myself too if it ever happened. Its currently not on the list of things I desperately want for Robot Wars, but yep…definately it would be cool!
Anything could happen? Here's my list of the totally unrealistic:
1. I'd like to mostly just write my comics and have a few different artists drawing them in different styles.
2. I'd like lots of comments.
3. I'd like to see my stuff in print.
4. I'd like to see an animated series on HBO of basically short stories coming out of the little super heroic universe I'm creating.
5. Money. Enough money that I can sit around creating comics in pajamas all day.
6. A rock opera inspired by my characters.
7. Money. Enough money to build my own Batcave and sit around in it in pajamas creating comics all day.
I've been really fortunate with Breaking the Ice as it got picked up and published as a one shot by Hopper Comics and they have been really happy with how it's doing. They want to do a paperback when I get enough pages.
As for the comics to film thing, I work and live in LA…in the "biz" so to speak. I was a stand up comic for 15 years and have been a professional actor for the past 6 and it's not as far fetched as skullbie would have you believe. Sure, it's a longshot but anything worth doing is a longshot. You have to be willing to take the steps to make that happen, though…one of those steps being going where the movies and TV are made. A lot of people can't or won't make that vital step.
Oh and to answer the OP, I would love to get to a point where it could subsidize my income enough that I could get the time to do a new strip at least three times a week.
Ive completely changed my mind.
I want my art to sell for 125 million dollars in some auction in london while the economy goes into a recession….I want to make a movie based on kung fu komix filmed entirely in front of greenscreen…then Ill sit back and rake in the cash, hire jim lee to draw KFK for me and write the most crazy stupid out of my ass scripts and have half of the world call me a genius and the other half call me a hack….then ill get with supermodels, bang them then never call them back…completely change my art style so its almost unrecognizeable….when people tell me i drew a head wrong ill shoot them and then tell them that i planned to do it exactly that way….then retire at 29.
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