So... I'm a webcartoonist.

[demiurgent]

Well, technically I'm a webcomics writer. But still.

Gossamer Commons has launched, officially. Greg's art is fantastic, Weds did a great job on the site design, and me? I'm just happy to be there.

Have a look see! This is a very, very happy day!

Comments

[troutman.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not hooked. I have issues with the pace of things. If these four strips were updating individually on your regular schedule, I'm fairly certain I would've dropped it out of my bookmarks after strip #3. I'm sure the pace will start getting picked up a bit more later on, but as of right this very second, it seems like the title could be "Tales of the Mundane!" These first strips seem to be lacking in "the hook", that indefinable thing that makes me want to see what's coming up.

That said, despite the apparent dullness, the dialogue does sound good and realistic. Many a webcomic online has really stilted dialogue that reads somewhat robotically. Not so here. But in the end, if I have any real recommendations, it's to pick up the pace and cut to the chase (Hey, that rhymes! I'm totally putting it on a tee shirt now). Also, if the comic is just a slice of life strip about Writer Guy and his everyday life, I'm probably not your target audience anyway. There are people that love that, but I'm not one of them, so you can take my criticism with a grain of salt.

And even after all that ranting, I think I can safely say that it's superior to a great deal of webcomics online. Which just goes to show my relatively negative view of webcomics as a whole, but that's a whole other topic...

(And just like that, John's comics go suspiciously unsnarked for the rest of eternity.)

[hoodat.livejournal.com]

I disagree. I don't think a webcomic has to "hook" its readers immediately (like print comics do, for obvious reasons). Right now I've no idea where the story will go, but I like the art and I like the writer, and that's enough to keep me reading a while. If I'm still not hooked a month from now, *that's* a problem.

I believe Eric and Greg are off to a promising start.