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Tell me what you think of my webcomic...(NSFW)
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Edit: in other words Post some actual art or else it's "site whoring."
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And I kind of liked the style, too.
It needs better (either more traditional or more designer-y) panel design, and a nicer font. The jokes aren't BAD per se, but there's too much reliance on potty humor for what's essentially a new take on Peanuts. South Park does it well because it is South Park, and a hell of a lot funnier, and it's been around forever. You're going for subtlety, and the swearing doesn't mesh with it.
I don't mind the crude drawing and garish color as much as other people might, because I can see what you're trying to do. But it might be a bit more pleasant to look at if the characters were drawn and inked more carefully as opposed to sketchy-looking and underdrawn. It's possible to do simple stick-like figures and not have them look lazy or sloppy. And if that's your 'style' then there's nothing for it and I (and others!) will always dislike it.
As far as getting more people, do a better job and let the word-of-mouth build. Or try and get the strip carried/featured on a more popular website or something, by emailing sites you like and asking about it.
looks like bangs to me.
Uhh, I don't really have anything to say about the art, because it's pretty much just there so you have a way to get your jokes across. Looks like you enjoy doing it, but I don't know how many readers your going to get with the kind of humor you have. Keep on keeping on.
The art isn't particularly critiquable, though. It's doodles, basically. That's what you're going for, I suppose, but whatever.
What resolution is your monitor set to? I've struggled with finding a good font for a long time and I'm fairly happy with the one I'm using now, I've got no problem reading it on both my laptop and my desktop (which represent opposite resolution poles, respectively).
I try to avoid using my real name--people around here know it's me but I don't think it's that big of a deal. When I started the site in high school a whole bunch of my teachers knew about it and they thought it was funny, so I suppose it depends on where you go to school and how well people know you. I was never the 'quiet kid', I was the loud obnoxious asshole, so saying the kind of stuff I did didn't make people think I was disturbed. I obviously don't put this stuff on my resume--well I would if it became popular--and as long as it can't be immediately associated to me then I don't see a problem. I mean if you were really dead set on finding out who I was, there's more than enough crap strewn across the site, but generally the most employers and interviewers do is check if you have a facebook and Google your name--and my name's pretty common.
Oh and if you think your humor's similar, and you like to draw (or just write I suppose), it'd be more than cool if you submitted some of your stuff to the site. I'm always looking for guest artists/writers/people just to mix things up a bit. I'll credit you (or your pseudonym) of course.
Yes, that's absolutely true and I have had that problem. The thing is though this font that I've found comes in two basic varieties: regular and condensed (I think there's an expanded too but that's totally worthless). Regular is way too wide and space inefficient, condensed is a bet better.
If you know of a better font I'd gladly check it out. I'm really open to changing damn near anything.
Also, I think the head-line thing over the hair needs to go - or at least do a comparison on an example comic and see.
That font is from one of those free font websites, it's not native to Windows. That's why I was asking you, there are so many fonts out there and this was the one I ended up settling on, however, if you know of one I may have missed then I would've liked to know.
I wasn't asking you to tell me what font I'd like, I was asking you if you knew of a font that would be better. That's all.
Preferably a font that is clearer to read, not as narrow as the one you have now, and doesn't have to be permanently italicized to look decent.
Referring to the font as 'permanently italicized' is inaccurate, I'm not italicizing it, the artist who made it wasn't italicizing it, that's just the way it looks. It has no 'italicized' or 'unitalicized' equivalent.
Just forget I even said it. You don't need a new font. That one works fine - it is perfect.
The font is terrible.
Italics or no, it rates as exceptionally poor in the legibility stakes. Unfortunately typography is often the last thing people think of when designing stuff. You should remember that when we read, we don't actually read every letter of every word. We actually process the shape of the word and cognitive mapping fills in the rest. It's why that 'im nt tying evy lttr bt yu cn stll mke snse of ths sentnc' trick works. Typing in all-caps alone makes your typography a shit-load more unreadable, as all the shape indicators of lower-case are thrown out the window. It slows down your comic a great deal, especially your wordier ones.
Please look in to a new font.
Since you seem to care, my monitor is 1024x768, not that it should really make a difference. Please remember that whatever font you think is readable is probably going to appear so because you know exactly what's being written.
As a matter of public courtesy, I'd like to point out that if a member is going to jump to harsh reviews tactics, it's poor form to not follow that up with something constructive and actually useful.
"OP, you're supposed to use gutters, not pull it from the gutter."
edit: For those of you viewing this in the distant future, it was a misunderstanding. I was actually asking this question, not being a rhetorical asshole.
*rimshot*
Come on, don't be naive, the only place I pull these comics from is my own rotting anus. Literally, I just smear paper in feces, scan it, and upload it to the internet. But before I do that, I have elderly syphilitic whores cram pencils into their leathery, worn, vaginas to scribble the totally illegible font onto the spastically arranged panels.