Wanna make a comic magazine?

NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap.Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
edited February 2009 in Graphic Violence
So the other day I was at The Weekly Crisis, run by our very own KVW, and he posted this neat little comics magazine thing he did. I thought to myself “Wow, this is really neat.”

And it got me to thinking, why couldn’t I do this? Better yet, why couldn't we do this? I feel like I am good enough with Photoshop and InDesign to do layouts, and although I’m not a great writer, I am a pretty good editor. So the only thing missing is content.

Not to steal KVW’s idea or anything, but I would love to go forward on this. The only problem is, I would need some writers. They could write on anything really, as long as it related to comics somehow. Movies, toys, video games, favorite comics pet, what hero do you hate the most, who has the biggest bulge(it’s Captain Marvel by the way), ANYTHING.

So basically I’m posting this to see if anyone is interested. I would be the editor, and probably the layout guy. All you guys would have to do is write whatever the hell you feel like. I know we got some talented writers out there. As for artists, I was thinking maybe a small 3 panel comic at the end, or a "featured GV artist of the month" kind of thing.

I think it would be a cool thing to do as a community. Also, there would be no profit off of any of this, it will just be posted on the internet for free download, and I’ll even do the hosting.

If enough people are interested in this we can start talking about features and the like. But before I get ahead of myself I want to see if anyone here would actually want to contribute to something like this.

So what do you think? Anyone up for it?

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    no because seriously have you read most of the posts here

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  • NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    well fuck i mean, i'd be the filter

    i mean editor.

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited February 2009
    I would enjoy doing something like this, but I think that doing it as an open community would make it get lost in its ambitiousness.

    As something serious (and not really associated with Penny Arcade or the forums), yeah I'd be interested. But if it was something that was intended just for GVers to read, I think it'd be try to be too big for its own good.

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    no I have done the only bit of comics journalism that matters when I reviewed Death by D.K. and nothing else will ever compare.

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  • KVWKVW Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I can help out with reviews or the odd article, although, if its just for GV, Keith may be right in the ambitiousness of an open community project. You could create a new blog entitled graphic violence or whatever you wanted to call the magazine and possibly leverage it through that with guest posts / submissions from the posters here.

    And Sars, the cover would obviously be "FLASHES NEW CAR - WHY DOES HE NEED IT IF HE CAN RUN FASTER?"

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    no I have done the only bit of comics journalism that matters when I reviewed Death by D.K. and nothing else will ever compare.
    hahaha i never did write an article for FTOTBS

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited February 2009
    WIGGIN'S WEEKLY REVIEW

    "I'd suck Ghost Rider's motherfucking cock. I'd suck the shit out of his motherfucking cock, like I was a fucking little shitty bitch I'd suck his motherfucking cock. Fuck you if you think it's gay. He's motherfucking Ghost Rider, faggot. You're the faggot, dicklicker."

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  • NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Hmmm. Maybe I should clarify.

    I want to do this, and GV was the first place that popped in my head that I knew had some talented people that like comics.

    That being said, there is no way I could accept EVERYONE who submitted an article. That would just be too much work for me and I could see the magazine easily topping over 50+ pages. Which is quite a bit more than I want at this point.

    My purpose right now is to gauge interest. If I feel like enough people are interested I'll probably do a call for submissions or something and see how it looks. If there are a crazy amount of submissions I'll probably have to pick cherry-pick the articles I feel should be in the magazine. Or perhaps save the other ones for a later edition.

    Honestly, I'm figuring not everyone that says they want to do it is actually going to participate. And then after one issue I'll know how the workload is and go from there. If we could get a base of reliable writers that routinely contributed that would be awesome.

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  • NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Also, I was thinking of a feature that would highlight Wiggin and it would be called something like The Dunce's Corner.

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Keith wrote: »
    WIGGIN'S WEEKLY REVIEW

    "I'd suck Ghost Rider's motherfucking cock. I'd suck the shit out of his motherfucking cock, like I was a fucking little shitty bitch I'd suck his motherfucking cock. Fuck you if you think it's gay. He's motherfucking Ghost Rider, faggot. You're the faggot, dicklicker."
    he just rotates every week between moon knight and ghost rider and eventually starts relating them to his favorite ska-punk bands

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited February 2009
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    WIGGIN'S WEEKLY REVIEW

    "I'd suck Ghost Rider's motherfucking cock. I'd suck the shit out of his motherfucking cock, like I was a fucking little shitty bitch I'd suck his motherfucking cock. Fuck you if you think it's gay. He's motherfucking Ghost Rider, faggot. You're the faggot, dicklicker."
    he just rotates every week between moon knight and ghost rider and eventually starts relating them to his favorite ska-punk bands

    man don't dis ska/punk

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    Keith wrote: »
    WIGGIN'S WEEKLY REVIEW

    "I'd suck Ghost Rider's motherfucking cock. I'd suck the shit out of his motherfucking cock, like I was a fucking little shitty bitch I'd suck his motherfucking cock. Fuck you if you think it's gay. He's motherfucking Ghost Rider, faggot. You're the faggot, dicklicker."

    You forgot to mention buttsex

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited February 2009
    Me Too! wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    WIGGIN'S WEEKLY REVIEW

    "I'd suck Ghost Rider's motherfucking cock. I'd suck the shit out of his motherfucking cock, like I was a fucking little shitty bitch I'd suck his motherfucking cock. Fuck you if you think it's gay. He's motherfucking Ghost Rider, faggot. You're the faggot, dicklicker."

    You forgot to mention buttsex

    How about you suck a fuck you stupid motherfucker

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    WIGGIN'S WEEKLY REVIEW

    "I'd suck Ghost Rider's motherfucking cock. I'd suck the shit out of his motherfucking cock, like I was a fucking little shitty bitch I'd suck his motherfucking cock. Fuck you if you think it's gay. He's motherfucking Ghost Rider, faggot. You're the faggot, dicklicker."
    he just rotates every week between moon knight and ghost rider and eventually starts relating them to his favorite ska-punk bands

    and Iron Fist and every now and then Nova for a change of pace

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  • NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I was also thinking of a back-page feature called "Batman Says What?" and it would be one of those blank caption things that people write in hilarious entries for.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    Keith wrote: »
    Me Too! wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    WIGGIN'S WEEKLY REVIEW

    "I'd suck Ghost Rider's motherfucking cock. I'd suck the shit out of his motherfucking cock, like I was a fucking little shitty bitch I'd suck his motherfucking cock. Fuck you if you think it's gay. He's motherfucking Ghost Rider, faggot. You're the faggot, dicklicker."

    You forgot to mention buttsex

    How about you suck a fuck you stupid motherfucker

    There you go you got it
    nogs wrote:
    I was also thinking of a back-page feature called "Batman Says What?" and it would be one of those blank caption things that people write in hilarious entries for.

    cue a bunch of "Goddamn Batman" jokes

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I'll do it if you pay me or put my name really big on the cover

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  • NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I'll do it if you pay me or put my name really big on the cover

    i could do that. no problem.

    the name thing.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    okay then

    the magazine is now called

    THE LOVELY BASTARD

    [tiny] and a bunch of other faggots riding his coattails [/tiny]

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited February 2009
    the only thing riding your coattails is dustbunnies you mini-me wannabe

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    keith don't be mean, you'll feel bad about it and write it in a note on facebook

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited February 2009
    you can't prove that :(

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Finally, a place for my fifty page essay on why Identity Crisis is so, so awful.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    only 50 pages?

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Nogs, I'm down with this thing. Should we pitch our column ideas or are you just gonna take random topics?

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    you can sum up why Identity Crisis was awful in like half a page

    but

    finally a place where i can talk about how Young Justice was the best superhero comic ever and oh man everything used to be so great

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  • NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    wwtMask wrote: »
    Nogs, I'm down with this thing. Should we pitch our column ideas or are you just gonna take random topics?

    not sure yet. like i said, right now I am just testing the waters to see if enough people want to do this.

    I'll let people if/when I want ideas/submissions.

    Until then, feel free to come up with column or feature ideas and post them here. It might inspire some other people to come up with ideas of their own or get excited about this little project.

    EDIT: no monthly Black Panther column. Sorry.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    you can sum up why Identity Crisis was awful in like half a page

    but

    finally a place where i can talk about how Young Justice was the best superhero comic ever and oh man everything used to be so great

    if young justice was so great why is it cancelled?

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    Nogs requesting permission to do a column about how awesome the street-level Marvel heroes are

    Either that or a 12 part series on how fucking awesome Bill Mantlo was I mean seriously

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I have some experience in publishing so if you need some help on the editorial side of stuff I could lend a hand

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  • NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Me Too! wrote: »
    Nogs requesting permission to do a column about how awesome the street-level Marvel heroes are

    Either that or a 12 part series on how fucking awesome Bill Mantlo was I mean seriously

    sorry wiggin, you are the only person that i'm giving the preemptive no submission rule.
    just kidding

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  • NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I have some experience in publishing so if you need some help on the editorial side of stuff I could lend a hand

    Thanks for the offer. I worked in the web editorial world a little during my internship last summer, so I've got a bit of experience. However, if this looks like it is gonna be too much for me to handle I'll let you know.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2009
    Nogs wrote: »
    Me Too! wrote: »
    Nogs requesting permission to do a column about how awesome the street-level Marvel heroes are

    Either that or a 12 part series on how fucking awesome Bill Mantlo was I mean seriously

    sorry wiggin, you are the only person that i'm giving the preemptive no submission rule.
    just kidding

    seriously that second idea and variations on it is something I'd like to do, in less than 12 parts

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  • SentrySentry Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    you can sum up why Identity Crisis was awful in like half a page

    but

    finally a place where i can talk about how Young Justice was the best superhero comic ever and oh man everything used to be so great

    if young justice was so great why is it cancelled?

    because you touch yourself at night thinking of young boys.

    I'm down for a whole issue devoted to the awesomeness of Young Justice.

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Nogs wrote: »
    wwtMask wrote: »
    Nogs, I'm down with this thing. Should we pitch our column ideas or are you just gonna take random topics?

    not sure yet. like i said, right now I am just testing the waters to see if enough people want to do this.

    I'll let people if/when I want ideas/submissions.

    Until then, feel free to come up with column or feature ideas and post them here. It might inspire some other people to come up with ideas of their own or get excited about this little project.

    EDIT: no monthly Black Panther column. Sorry.

    MAN WHAT FAIL

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  • NogsNogs Crap, crap, mega crap. Crap, crap, mega crap.Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    A few people have voiced concerns about it being an all-editorial magazine with no news. I see where they are coming from. I would assume covering ground breaking news would be something someone would want to write about. The main problem is, it would mostly be all second-hand writing from other website's interviews.

    However, if this actually takes off and get an issue or three, I can see what I can do about hooking up the better writers with possible phone interviews. I have a few friends in the industry that we could interview, but that is still be a pretty big "if."

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  • sportzboytjwsportzboytjw squeeeeeezzeeee some more tax breaks outRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I'd like to write a Bat-Girl article at some point. There may be some finger-pointing in it.

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    you can sum up why Identity Crisis was awful in like half a page

    but

    finally a place where i can talk about how Young Justice was the best superhero comic ever and oh man everything used to be so great

    if young justice was so great why is it cancelled?
    if death wish III is so great why is charles bronson dead?

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    you can sum up why Identity Crisis was awful in like half a page

    but

    finally a place where i can talk about how Young Justice was the best superhero comic ever and oh man everything used to be so great

    if young justice was so great why is it cancelled?
    if death wish III is so great why is charles bronson dead?

    But DW3 wasn't that great. Now DW4 and DW5, those were good.

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