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DENVER FANCY BASTARDS:
I will be at Denver Comic Con THIS WEEKEND with Cyanide & Happiness June 13-15, 2014 at booth 734!
It’s always been hard for me to equate the things I make and the things my friends make with the “REAL” things (books, movie, TV) that I consume. For the longest time I suffered from this ridiculous mental block where I thought characters and stories created by my friends (or by ANY webcomic artist) just weren’t as real as the characters on TV or in movies. Something about the fact that I KNEW these people and KNEW what went into the making of a webcomic removed the mystique and delegitimized their art to me. I also thought I was protected from this delegitimizing effect because I wasn’t TRYING to tell a real story. I was only making observational pop culture jokes, and webcomics were the perfect place to do just that.
In retrospect, I’m not sure how I was so dumb about this whole thing for so long. Perhaps it was fear of failing at telling a decent story with an online comic that got me into thinking it wasn’t a valid medium for that kind of creative endeavor. Whatever the reason, I was wrong. Dumb and wrong. Just a big ol’ wrong, dumb wrong-guy.
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Especially when you consider some webcomic artists don't even try to make their creations silly
Wow Joel, you are growing up right before our eyes. I am so proud 🙂
Now, what did the 11th Doctor thing of Iron Man 3?
I used to think the same about the comics I read (particularly when a lot of them were "here's some stuff I doodle between classes in college"). What flipped it for me was when I started listening to Writing Excuses ( http://www.writingexcuses.com ). Howard Taylor sitting at a table with people who write REAL stories, and he's actually useful to the conversations!
Fun fact! Joss Whedon actually did make a short webcomic called SugarShock back when they brought back Dark Horse Presents on Myspace. It's pretty amazing, and collected here! https://digital.darkhorse.com/profile/95.sugarsho…
Demeaning another medium because it is new or different from what has been established is bad and wrong. So much so that a new word should be invented like badwrong or badong. Yes. Demeaning another medium is badong.
Lol, 'Badong' was the brand name of a fan / airduct device for your CPU fan in a custom computer case. The packaging and marketing materials for it were done in such bad ChinEngrish that we laughed about it for YEARS.
"When tornado meets a tunnel turns Badong!"
BTW, I love the "The Oatmeal" reference in the Alt Text!
Kung Pao reference. Nice
Oh no a fictional character is learning what fiction is. He is becoming self aware! We must destroy him before he conquers the internet!
If any fictional character is going to conquer the Internet I want it to be this one.
There's never been any question in my mind as to whether webcomics count as "real" fiction. Comic Joel and Jamie McJack and Hastings Kilgore and Marten Reed are just as legitimate as Jay Gatsby or Ned Stark or Louis Wu or Clark Kent.
awesome as usual!
so Hi Joel,
I enjoy reading pretty much everything you do and I often end up quoting you to others the same way that I do for movies and tv shows, so yeah, it's all equivalent.
Also, here's my random not related comment for you:
somewhere back in the archives you drew malcolm reynolds and han solo sitting on the tops of their ships all awesome-like. if you were to ever get around to say doing a similar one of River and Leia, I would buy the crap out of those prints.
(need a matching set, please!)
just thought you should know.
Hey, I saw you at Denver Comic Con but already ordered shirts over the internet, so I just watched you draw for a while. Funny, that was awesome! Gave me the warm fuzzies, like seeing Clark Kent.
I hope you enjoyed Denver! I loved that Con – my first since 1990 and very family-friendly!