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ADS in MAD?????

Whoa! Apart from the already huge collector's items' market I would never have thought this possible!







I sure miss Gaines

Go enjoy your new wives. I've got strategic thinking and lovemaking to do.

That one could have been picked out of a Robert Rankin novel!
Hell! Is one of you Robert Rankin? It's his cuppa tea completely!!!

I'd love to work for Mad...as long as it was Mad circa 1965! Yeah! I read the older issues too, and compared to the new ones they were much more free! Now it's the same type of puns & jokes over & over again... I still like Al Jaffee though, Great artist that guy is! (Wow! An unvoluntary Yoda-speak...

I guess Thomas isn't talking about webcomics in se , but about webcomics that get respected as a webcomic. Which is a webcomic you won'tsee as scanned and slapped because it feels like it's been done for the web. In his def. Dilbert is a webcomic because of its professionalism. I for one prefer to u...

Hey! It's actually the first time we get a clear view at the monkey town skyline! (...also probably the LAST time...hehehe :wink: ) Actually I don't feel it's dragging on at all! I just try to reread the strip as a whole every time again and find it hilariously funny! Problem is Monkey town seems p...

Hey! It's actually the first time we get a clear view at the monkey town skyline!

(...also probably the LAST time...hehehe )

Max, I'm in awe!

Not only have you got the guts to take negative criticism, but you're one of the first to go online with something you know is not your forte in order to learn!

I hope one day you'll go pro, cause the comics industry NEEDS guys who keep trying to evolve.

Maybe you should publish several of those "strips" on one page and stop calling it a comic strip, calling it a full-blown comic instead. You've got talent for writing stories, not for writing comic strip 4-panel shots. This was a compliment actually. A lot of people can't get the emotional build-up ...

I like the story, and I like most of the views you use. I'm viewing this in 1600x1200 so I'm not going to say it's small. You wanted negative criticism? Here it comes :wink: ! Follow art classes! Especially nude models! You draw accurately, if your people were robots. (Their weight shifts, and their...

... as the article isn't that long. It points out that most comics albums are less expensive than most books (a classical book is sold at about 18 EURO or more, despite a lesser global cost (no pictures nor colour)) Also the main criticism in the article is to point out the absurd idea, that the edi...

Art Criticism should be descriptive, not prescriptive.

Well, that was about the point I was trying to make

I propose we wipe out these evil heathens who cannot behold the TRUTH! The Almighty McCloud has sent upon us the Holy Task to cleanse the world of all non-believers! Led by the Mighty Prophet (profit?) Pop-Eye, we will conquer the world! No-one expects the Spinache Inquisition! For Robin The Wonder-...

Don't worry, it's just Kogaratsu is the only comic I know which is about samura? and is decently documented (i.e. not having Samura? beating up cowboys just because it's cool to draw). I've seen some child-in-basket references too, (the most absurd one in "Mad Max III-Thunderdome"), and I didn't eve...

I hope I won't start getting scott-kurtzy, but this is one of the topics I hold very VERY strong opinions about, due to recent experiences. IMHO, after reading the threads, I wonder why everyone keeps believing there is ANY criterium to good or bad art. Whether the artist has a purpose, artistic fee...

Beautiful art & story. Reminded me of a quality comic here in Europe called KOGARATSU (Japanese for "Honour", I believe) It's different in art and story, but it's about samura? too, so maybe you'd like to check it out and read it as documentation. Here's a link: http://www.bdnet.com/Kogaratsu/fiche_...

Ernest Hemingway once wrote:

"Any story going on for long enough, will eventually talk about Death"

Japanimationfist, can i quote you on the stairs/rockclimbing analogy? It seems an excellent metaphore to explain online comics and their possibilities, while still stressing how difficult it still is :D I might need it in a school project next year about comics in Belgium. I myself don't think trail...

(*while awaiting Scott's opinion*) Where gutters are like streets, trails are like bridges, I suppose. Still, the absence of paper boundaries does not have to exclude "page composition", as in Scott's chess comic, and especially its ending, where composition and the suggestion of a limitless canvas,...

I hopeto post some more comics with less flaws and more work on them, when I've finished school and will definitely take all of the advise in account. I prefer working in Photoshop because of the way my mind works: I have more of a painter than a drawer, once I get behind the computer. This may chan...

I guess Scott doesn't use all of his propositions because he feels comfortable using "his" linking lines. He just proposed other ways of using them because other ways are possible. I hope he won't use them all, because, even if he likes to experiment, it isn't always what is necessary to a comic. He...

I loooooooooooove the way Terry Pratchett is capable of telling stories with deep moral issues involved , while still making it a fun read.
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I'm really comfortable drawing, but I recognise a good comic even when the art isn't top notch :wink: As I still don't have a scanner, I had the same problem too. This one (my first online comic) was done in Photoshop, using actual photo's, there are many possibilmities to the guys that aren't comfo...

A handy thing I saw once was a guy who kept his notes in an atoma booklet (you know: those you can add and remove pages from). Whenever he wanted to revise a page, he redrew the sketches and added them inbetween so he got a complete storyboard with all the writings, notes, sources and photo's he nee...

I wonder when there will be a cross-over between the Marvel Universe, The DC universe, and the Monkey Town Universe!

(Finally a collector's item for the DC fans, the Marvel Fans and the online comics fans! Might be the best secure business plan in comics since the creation of Batman!)