My Art Journey
Added 2022-11-16 16:47:36 +0000 UTCHi, patrons. Here's a fresh ramble about my personal experiences as an artist and some of the lessons I've learned along the way.
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Thanks, Josh. I'll mention it to my design team of friends. :)
Bill Lemmond
2022-11-30 06:45:48 +0000 UTCThanks, Bill. The first time I built a webcomic site (for Chronicle) I hand coded the whole thing in PHP because I had those skills from my day job and it just made sense at the time. Since then I've always used WordPress and (first) ComicPress and (more recently) Comic Easel. You're right that those WordPress solutions are not dependably supported, but they were the best thing going and I believe that Comic Easel is still one of the better ones available.
Josh Way
2022-11-28 16:19:43 +0000 UTCHi, Josh, I'm glad you figured out that drawing faces and expressions is your sweet spot. Web cartoonist Rob Balder says it takes a minimum of 3 years' regular updates before a new web comic site builds significant traffic. People just didn't know you were there. I've read and heard you talk about your comics, but I have 99th percentile attention deficit, and I keep forgetting anything that's not a daily or weekly routine. It's why I keep falling so far behind on Patreon. And the barriers to entry for web comics are pretty low. There may be thousands of web comics, certainly hundreds. Among those are very few that are on your level, and most people don't have the time or desire to wade through all those sites, looking for the good ones. The web comics I've followed were referred to me by friends. I'm still waiting on a couple of friends to finish building a site for my comics. I tried learning how to do it, myself, and got all A's in my classes, completing a certificate in web design. Maybe I'm going about it all wrong, but I know none of the content management systems have anything suitable for sequential art. And the only WordPress themes for comics go in and out of support. I'm turning 64, next month, and don't have as much time as most cartoonists who are only starting out. Any ideas?
Bill Lemmond
2022-11-27 08:46:55 +0000 UTC
