52 Weeks, a crazy experiment!!

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 5:29 am

Hi All,

Since this forum is called Hype here it comes;

Come see if a procrastinating cartoonist can actually produce a comic a week for a year! It's weird, it's wacky, it's just plain nuts! Come see it and either root for him to succeed or pray for him to fail so you can feel better about yourself! Don't walk, <a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">run there</a> today!

Have a great day everyone!

Keith
<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">Karmic Debt Comics</a>

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:53 am

If you can do it, you're a better man than I, Gunga Din.

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 3:17 pm

I just finished the inks on this week strip now on to colors and then lettering... I'm on week 32 of 52 weeks so far and I haven't missed a week so far.... damn I shouldn't have said that now I've jinxed myself!![/i]

Keith
<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">Karmic Debt Comics</a>

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 5:25 am

There I just finished this weeks comic and posted it.....
Hey since Scott McCloud posts on this forum maybe he'll read this and go to my site and then say something nice about it....
or maybe he'd just say it's crap.....

Keith
<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">Karmic Debt Comics</a>

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 6:31 am

yup that's right I finished another one!!! This is not as easy as it looks by the way.... don't try this at home.....

Keith

<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">Comics!!</a>

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 6:19 pm

They just keep coming!!!

Keith

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 6:50 am

my god they just keep coming!! I've tried a few new ideas for panels on this one trying to make time seemingly stretch... hopefully it works. If anyone would care to comment that would be great.

Keith
<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">Comics!!</a>

Kris Lachowski · Post by **Kris Lachowski** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 11:58 am

At a glance it looks like your comics might be good/funny, but they're too small to be easily read. I suspect there are many other potential readers out there like me who would rather just hit back the back button and go look for another web comic than squint to read your 52weeks one. Maybe I'm halfblind or lazy, or my resolution is too high, but if i'm this way I'm sure alot of others are as well. Try making your image sizes a bit bigger and see if you get more feedback tht way.
All the above is meant in the most friendly encouraging way possible.

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 7:20 pm

Kris Lachowski wrote:At a glance it looks like your comics might be good/funny, but they're too small to be easily read. I suspect there are many other potential readers out there like me who would rather just hit back the back button and go look for another web comic than squint to read your 52weeks one. Maybe I'm halfblind or lazy, or my resolution is too high, but if i'm this way I'm sure alot of others are as well. Try making your image sizes a bit bigger and see if you get more feedback tht way.
All the above is meant in the most friendly encouraging way possible.

Try checking out the main page now I've experimented with that comic I'm trying to balance a fine line between resolution and speed of download... let me know what you think.

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 6:25 am

I've changed the resolution on most of the 52 Weeks comics if anyone wants to check them out and let me know about download speeds that would be great....
<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">main page</a>
<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net/Choice.htm">52 Weeks choose your poison page</a>

Kris Lachowski · Post by **Kris Lachowski** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 7:38 am

So far your 52 weeks is very enjoyable. I particualerly like: 5-12-3, 6-24-3 and 8-19-3. I like/identify with 8-4-3, 8-7-3, 9-17-3, and 10-20-3 (but I've been pretty good about not wasting my time like that lately, but back in the day Civilization 2 used to keep me up all night and waste all the time in my day).

Still Hard to read: 6-7-3, 6-26-3, the desert one, 8-24-3, 9-3-3. Some of these are literally too hard to read. You might want to consider just redoing the speach bubbles and/or type if you'd like to steer clear of increasing the image size too much, though i think most of those could use a slight incease of image size.

Keep up the good work, I look forward to reading the rest.

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 6:21 am

Kris,

Thanks for the great input I believe I've addressed all the issues now... well at least I think I have let me know if you notice anything else.
Have a great day!!

Keith
<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">Comics!!</a>

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 5:02 pm

there is no escaping the constant updates at Karmicdebt.net!!!!!! ~insert evil laugh here~~~ You must go there every week and read them!!!!

Keith
<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">Comics!!</a>

Kris Lachowski · Post by **Kris Lachowski** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:33 pm

I'm sure the additude shown in your comic is common enough, but I just had a great experience that was quite the opposite this weekend. I passed an art portfolio review in order to get into art school mostly just based on my comics and knowledge of the medium. In fact about halfway through the interviewer passed me and we just talked about comics or another 10 min or so.

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 6:30 am

Well we have another update along with some intereting devolpments which I've detailed <a href="http://www.zwol.org/forum/viewtopic.php ... ere....</a> remember to check it out so far I've done 42 of 52 weeks!!

Keith
<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">Comics!!</a>

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:14 am

Well there you have it <i>another</i> new comic, this one was slightly delayed because we bought a new PC which of course meant taken all the files off the old one. Before you ask <i>"What about a PC relocation program?"</i> we tried that and it just did not work but it did provide the inspiration for this weeks comic.

Keith
<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">Comics!!</a>

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 6:30 am

All right who would've thought I would get this far!!! Keep watching and see if I can actually make the goal!!!

Keith
<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">Comics!!</a>

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 6:32 am

This is the final week of 52 weeks! The last comic should be posted on thursday..... now what do I do?

Keith
<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">Comics!!</a>

Veleno · Post by **Veleno** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:52 pm

*grins at the Scott McCloud being at the top of the mountian*

Heh, had thought it would have been interestiing if when you got to the top of the mountian, you realized it was only the first of many you now see ahead of you.

As for what to do next...

You could continue, perhaps do a larger project, or lay low and fill up sketchbooks for a while.

Though I suppose ya have already thought of that.

troybuddha · Post by **troybuddha** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:04 pm

well I finally did it....

Keith
<a href="http://www.karmicdebt.net">Comics!!</a>

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:44 pm

Was that inspired by P.D.'s ever falling monkey?

Post by **Greg Stephens** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:15 pm

The (falling) man evolved from a (falling) monkey? Preposterous! More likely that they share a common ancestor.

Rip Tanion · Post by **Rip Tanion** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:34 pm

Falling
Yes, I am falling
And she keeps calling
Me back again

Apologies the Walrus.

Kris Lachowski · Post by **Kris Lachowski** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:09 pm

Greg Stephens wrote:The (falling) man evolved from a (falling) monkey? Preposterous! More likely that they share a common ancestor.

Oh and Troy how about trying a 24hr comic? The pain's worth it, I promise.

Zwol.org

52 Weeks, a crazy experiment!!

52 Weeks, a crazy experiment!!

Well I'm trying at least....

finished another one.... maybe Scott McCloud will read it...

and another one done!!

and another one....

and another one....

Kris....

download speeds?

Thanks for the input

just when you thought it was over.....

once again an update...

New comic...

2 weeks left!!!

here it is the last week!

here it is.................... the end