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Hey followers (ok, follower, I know there’s at least one person who reads these). DAYD will see a little slowdown in the next few weeks. Not in the comics, I’ve enough for the next month and more. Just in the blogs and tweets. We’ve had a new baby girl join us this morning so Death will take a little backseat to Life at my house for awhile.
Cheers.
Rod Salm
I’m a big fan of this blog, and this post in particular rings true with me and banks and phone companies. They never, NEVER, tell you that you could have a cheaper price with them until you leave. Seth explains why.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/08/the-right-price-the-first-time.html
It’s official, Death came to my house and took my beloved iMac. The logic board is shot and that’s a $900 part, not counting labour. Ouch.
Well, in Death, there’s life, like a new puppy after your beloved old Yeller catches a bullet to the head, I’m getting me one of these bad boys this week. Waahoooo! Or as my son would say, vrooom, vroom. By the way, it really pays to have Time Machine running, another reason why I buy Mac.
Sorry bout the old Yeller reference. That was a little grim. I didn’t mean to offend the dog lovers out there who follow the strip. But really? Don’t care. I’m getting me a new puppy of an iMac.
I was reviewed! Awesome. Some random person who loves webcomics came to the site via a Facebook ad (costing me 32 cents mind you) and wrote a review about Death at your Door. Woohoo! Read it here. Ok, two things, my Zeus isn’t fat, he’s just not well exercised, and 17 strips? Cheezit, sure feels like more from the time I’ve put into it. I can’t even imagine next year for this and the work I’ll have put in.
One other thing, if I actually was involved more in the online webcomics community I should know more about Salt and Battery, they’ve been around for quite awhile and doing some dang funny stuff. Check it out when you have minute.
I’m still giggling that I got reviewed. Look at this grin, look at this grin people!
Recently, someone who knows me very well, told me that this comic was definitely my humour. Initially I was put off by this (as he also followed that with the idea that I could find a different writer-ouch) but after some contemplation on the matter, this was a great comment (the “my humour” thing, the find another writer was kinda painful).
In case anybody asks, your voice is your uniqueness, your brand, your product, when it comes to this type of cartooning and in life. To do a comic any other way invites blandness, boredom and frankly I wouldn’t do this project if it was someone else’s voice. There are enough sameness-tasting comics out there already (pick any one in the Winnipeg Sun newspaper to see what I mean). Oh sure, for freelance graphic design work I’ve made work that speaks to the client – that’s the point after all but for this comic (basically an unpaid hobby at this point) it’s my voice or nothing. So instead, I’m going to take that comment as a verification that I’m on the right track with this thing. DAYD may not appeal to your sense of humour, that’s all right, can’t please ‘em all and I’m sure you’ll find some other comic that does please you. At the end of the day, I have to admit that this whole thing is for me (sorry to be greedy) but if I didn’t enjoy it I wouldn’t be able to put in the work to make it happen.
In all my research for webcomics and comics in general the two underlying factors that all of the professionals advise boils down to is – make it good and make it uniquely yours.
So that’s what I’m shooting for here. As for the find another writer, maybe that guy who made the comment would like to take a stab at writing a few comics (try 20 to start)? I double-dog dare you.
