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Isn't that Clark Kent getting stuck in a phone booth?

No, that's Clark Kent getting stuck in a phone booth in which Billy Batson is changing to Captain Marvel. (Note the red with the thunderbolt.)---Al

I suddenly remember a legal case I read about a while back where a guy with multiple personality disorder was charged with raping a girl with multiple personality disorder, and his defense was that they each had one personality consenting at the time . . . And then there was THE MINDS OF BILLY MILL...

My (current) process is this:
Storyboard for each page.
Drawing each page.
Scripting the page.
Inking the page.
Scanning and coloring and lettering the page, by computer.
I DO find scripting helps, at least to keep words to a minimum, and on a comic page the more concise, the better. ---Al

Currently I do it this way: I write down the outline of the story. I do crudely drawn storyboards first of the next few pages of the story. Then I do better drawings, usually using google or ditto for picture references, of the next page of the sequence. Then I ink it. Then I script in the dialogue....

Actually, I kind of LIKE the dotcomics, they are readable and the ads are not too annoying, and I like the way parts of the page come out at you---but then, I'm prejudiced, I'm cheap and the more free comics I can read, the better.--Al

Oh, I see. Well, the balloons coming up in that order, and the ads, took some actual javascript expertise---I know Buzzboy does it too, but I'm not sure who did it first, and they might have done it independently---so some invention as well as creation might be involved.
Maybe.---Al

Um. No, I don't THINK so... He's saying "dotcomics"---which are Marvel's name for web-based version of their print comics, offered for free (with much advertising). Some of them actually do work well, especially with the time-released balloons... In other words, "dotcomics" are a specialized form of...

Seen this?
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/5/10/02856/6361
Slowly but surely, the word is getting out...---Al

No offense AT ALL taken. And yeah, I guess I was overstating the case. I do NOT boycott "just scanned" webcomics. Indeed, some of my favorite webcomics are things like BRUNO and SINFEST, which are just basically well-done comics that would be a credit to any medium. Still...I just want to encourage ...

I think a lot more COULD be done with webcomics than are being done now. There are a few experimenters, but most just scan a flat comic. They don't take advantage of image/hyperlinking/html to make the story more effective. They don't take advantage of Scott's "infinite canvas" save for a few like C...

My feeling/prejudice is that shorter, episodic comics work better on the web, where attention span is pretty short....but NOWHERE GIRL blows THAT assumption out of the water...so I have to say it looks like it doesn't matter.---Al

Yeah, I've been doing the picture to the journal for years now....it's more in the spirit of an individual illustration (a la Sidney Paget and Sherlock Holmes) to make the journal entry stand out.---Al

It would be silly, since I put a new page up every two days or so, to "hype" every time a new page comes up, but the completion of an issue/storyarc/whatever you want to call it is, I think, an appropriate time to call attention to it.... MINDMISTRESS at http://mindmistress.keenspace.com has complet...

After this, will there be one on Zen Marriage? (I think I know a few couples who have zen marriages....) Or an old man, recollecting back on his life, thinking,
"That was Zen, this is now..."
Sorry. Couldn't resist.---Al

Oh, surely it's comics, if nothing else because of the limits of the movement. Otherwise, you could say the Alex Ross cover for Superman that had Clark changing to Superman and zooming off---depending on how you look at the cover, the angle, like those cards we used to have as kids---wouldn't be com...

Very true and all good points. Like I said, I have every admiration for Cat Garza's stuff---and I LOOOOOVED the bit on Zot On-Line where Zot and ---Jenny?---were falling, falling, falling, and it was one long panel. Maybe if the term had been "Elastic canvas" rather than infinite canvas I wouldn't h...

I dunno....I'm not as enamoured with the idea of an "Infinite Canvas" as some here are, heretical as that sounds. I mean, it's a neat concept, and I admire what Scott has done with it on Zot! Online and of course Cat Garza's stuff blows me away.... But...the actual concept, in practice, would be ver...