Comic Creator Challenge

given that this is my first time trying to draw a comic, id ont actually have a webspace home for it. how else can i submit my entry?

(ive almsot done it, just to scan it now)

cheers, im almost done. should barely make the midnight deadline

I'll sort my own site for the next time out

/edit, sod the deadline, my scanner seems to be scanning pictures diagonally, so i cant get the last one done :mad:

Okay, done! My gutter entry has been e-mailed. I hope there's still time to include it and apologise profusely if you've been messed around. Hope you think it's worth it.

Didn't want to be the first to break cover with this question - smacks a little of desparation, donchya think - but neither do I want you to think that nobody's all that bothered, but, um, Round Three nearly up yet? No pressure, but if you could just let us know how things are going ...

The one-page grid is what you did this round, yeah? I agree it seems odd to talk in terms of pages on a website, though I always have it in mind that one day this might be collected and printed so I tend to keep to the approximate dimensions of a standard page. Maybe a more general discipline like "at least one image must break out of the frame" or "the centre-piece must explode out of the screen and be in monochrome" would satisfy both camps (assuming I'm in a camp and not sitting alone in a lonely forest on a dark and stormy night - hey! Where's the light-bulb smiley?? Dammit, it's gone in the wrong place!).

I think maximum length is pretty much determined by the "time for creation". I know that I was pushed to get my entry into a workable time-span and then gave up (to be continued). I hope to be entering the 24 Hour comic thing, though, which should bring home a few home truths that have been away (on holiday, I suppose. Away from home, anyway).

How about (for a subject) "A Burning Truth on a Dark and Stormy Night"? Maybe another round might be an opening paragraph (as per the Bulwer-Lytton Contest you cite), something like (and this isn't a suggestion, in case you think I've already written a comic to go with it) "The one thing Harvey didn't realise was that his tie was on crooked and through the gaps in the carelessly buttoned shirt beneath could be clearly seen ..." (and you lose points for saying 'a big red S').

Or how about the last line of a winning entry being the first line of the next round for everybody?? (That one I do like, harder to fix).

Now I think of it, not many entries using colour these days, are there, so monochrome isn't going to be that much of a challenge ...

I was about to diss the photo idea, but by the time I'd logged in I realised I was wrong. First, I thought it would be too easy to include-but-ignore the photo, like in "Here's a picture of a rabbit I once slaughtered. Anyway, about this submarine you want me to paint...". Then I thought, "but if you had to include the photo as a plot-point, you'd have to work it in properly." And finally I thought, "what if elements of the photo had to be included and not necessarily the photo itself?"

I'm liking the photo idea, btw.

I'm also liking the splash-panel idea, tho', which is what I was going to say in the first place before I got distracted by photo-opportunities. It would be totally fascinating, if possibly a trifle competitive, if everyone had to begin from the same image, but each would draw it in their own individual style, and that in itself would be worth the admission fee to see. I think ther would still have to be a story theme, though, so that each person would jump off from the same point and end somewhere around the same area, but the stages in between might be their own.

It's starting to sound like a real improv. A proper comics jam session. This makes me smiyel .