I thought I’d give you another update as to what I’ve been up to lately, since my plans from my previous rant have changed. Here are some of my future projects I’ve got in mind.
WEEKLY STRIPS
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how to get more of an audience. I feel like I’m drawing comics that get thrown into a big well. I do all the work then just toss them into the dark. It’s not a very satisfying why of working.
When you’re working on things that are based in humor it isn’t that hard to do short strips. In fact all I used to do is short strips. 3 pages at the most. Now I find that I’m working on stories that are longer and longer. However I still get ideas for the one page gag comics. I draw them up for an issue, but they don’t make the final cut. As a result they have just been piling up.
I thought it might be a good idea to have some sort of strip that I post regularly to get people coming back to my site. If you want people to buy your comics, or even read them, it doesn’t seem like a bad idea to give them a free taste of what you’ve got in store for them. My plan, for now, is to post a one page strip every Friday, starting tomorrow. I’ve got a back log of strips that are thumb nailed out, but haven’t been drawn yet, so I won’t be posting any old stuff. However some of the strips will be the final drawn version of sketchbook comics I’ve posted before.
Once I’ve got enough of them done I think I will collect them all together in an issue of Ugly People. It will most likely be issue 4 or 5.
UGLY PEOPLE 3
I’ve started doing the writing for the next issue of Ugly People. This one will be a bit different because I’m actually writing this one out on a computer, before I draw it. This is just an effort to get away from so many spelling and grammar mistakes that I always have. My comics are riddled with them, and it’s something that I often hear complaints about. If I can manage to get rid of the one complaint I always get then maybe I’ll start getting a bigger audience. Positive word of mouth and all.
With Jerkface comics, and Ugly People 2 (which will be out before the end of this year) I was working more with established characters, trying to build a bit of continuity for the characters. Well, as much continuity as you can have when drawing about a guy beating off several times a day. I think for Ugly People 3 I might do less of that and just try to do some stories that are flat out silly and funny. Worry a little bit less about building up the Empireverse and concentrate on making people laugh!
SPIDER MAN COMIC
Instead of doing a whole big thing as a comic for Lucy I decided to do something smaller for her. I’m drawing a Spider-man comic for her. I’m doing it in my own style, but it’s not dirty like my work usually is. There’s no harsh language or anything. Right now I’m still writing and thumb nailing it out, which is fun. I get to look through old issues of Spider-Man and say it’s just research for my kid! How cool is that?
Of course I won’t be able to sell this comic, but when I finish it I’ll post it on line.
DRAWINGS
I still want to just do some drawings that I can sell, or even just to have fun with. All I ever drawing is comics and it’s somewhat dull. I love drawing comics, but I also love drawing. When I was in high school I would do art projects all the time. Mostly I drew pictures of girls that I copied from Maxim or FHM, but it was still fun to do. Gary Panter says that you should never tie yourself down to one thing at a time because if you get bored with it you stop working. One of the things I learned when doing Ugly People 2 was that, while I was able to get a lot of comics done in a short amount of time, it was a bit boring. When I sat down to draw I knew I was only going to be drawing comics. I love doing comics but if I’m being honest sometimes it’s really fucking boring.
Well that about does it for me. Tomorrow I’ll post a new comic. See you later.
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