Comments on: Guest Comic by “Twigs” (Annotated)

By: Narratorway

Narratorway — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 06:08:51 +0000

Wat’chu talkin ’bout Willis? I’m currently finishing up one for submission to another webcomic I read that’s asking for ’em.

By: Sirsoliloquy

Sirsoliloquy — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 04:24:24 +0000

Yeah; I feel like you’re right about how the changing web changed the way the community works.

Like, Ryan Armand (he guy who did Minus) lost his website last year and disappeared from the web. Back in the day this would have been a huge deal. But these days, well, barely anyone cares.

Also, Sarah Ellerton is back, making a comic on Webtoon. Nobody seems to recognize that she used to write/draw some very popular webcomics back in the day.

By: T

Sun, 25 Nov 2018 03:38:38 +0000

I’d say see my other comment above… Copyright’s not really much of an issue when you’re doing a guest strip for someone else.

By: T

Sun, 25 Nov 2018 03:37:36 +0000

I think that more than anything, it has to do with the audience demonstrating a much larger tolerance than we once expected for slow update schedules and delays or deviations from an existing schedule. A fair number of creators never exactly liked the deviations from their own writing and/or art style becoming a part of their archives, no matter how talented their guest contributors, but viewed them as preferable to "dead air." It was also, as Sirsoliloquy says, a matter of the community becoming looser-knit. Online interaction changed in ways that encouraged smaller, more insular groups of friends instead of one big mob, which removed a lot of the perception that there was one big "webcomics audience" and with it some of the incentive to pool our resources. The concept is not entirely dead: Questionable Content still ran a week of guest strips this year and I see some newer contributors trying it out. But I wouldn't say it's a good strategy to stay on schedule at this point.

By: Psolo Ghoti

Psolo Ghoti — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 22:47:26 +0000

More webcomics, more webcomics networks, better options for self-publishing these days, so it’s no longer the webcomics community, but several smaller communities. When I first started reading webcomics, it seemed pretty much everyone was on Keenspot (and before that, Big Panda).

Also, more webcartoonists can make a living off their comics these days. There might be less of a need to have guest comics when you don’t have to devote time to another, paying job.