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Welcome to the ashtray in the corner of the interwebs where the weird strips go when they give up on being normal.
This is where comics show up at 3 a.m. with red ink on their shirt and no alibi.
This comm is creator-friendly. So feel to throw your own stuff into the ring! 'Weird' is better than 'good,' friends! General comics talk is encouraged too.
I'm Buckminster Burkeswood, and I say, "Let's all race to the bottom and freak out Lemmy together!"
What We Want
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Single–panel and short web comics
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Underground, indie, ugly, beautiful, badly lettered, whatever
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Process shots, roughs, sketchbook pages, failure piles
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I don't care what you used to create it. Bring it!
If it feels like something a bored bartender would laugh at, it probably fits. Weird is good!
What We Don't Want
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Uncredited comics
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“I found this on Facebook, no idea who drew it”
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Hate garbage
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Overtly political cartoons
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Posters crying about AI
No external links, only photos with sources. Posting webcomics without linking to original source is not allowed.
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I create initial page w pencil, pen, markers, charcoal sticks. Usually w rough layout, but a lot of times (ok, most) in final design phase, I resize/move around panels on computer. Highlight colors with pastel sticks, smudging out with newspaper (works better than paper towel!), and fingers. The colors are just for base, because I do my light highlight color phase in Photopea and GIMP. Then scan, take my individual panels into Photopea/GIMP and past into new layer to make layout fit my page and also resize based on banner I'm using. I do a lot of layer work, for tone, glows, adjust brightness/contrast, clean up my sloppy marker work, add text, banner, etc. Been using Photoshop for most of my 25-year graphics career, but now that I'm retired, I didn't wanna pay the subscription (and fuck Adobe!!) so now use Photopea and GIMP. Photopea mostly since it's most like Photoshop, but I'm learning GIMP. System is Linux Mint, Cinnamon 6.4.8.
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Thank you! It's mostly for the inevitable, "This is all ai slop!!" comments that I'm sure I'll get every single time I post something. lol
You're welcome. I read your earlier post about it on another? Comics mag this morning and meant to follow you then because I've appreciated reading some of your other posts on other topics, but got distracted. I've rectified the situation now, thank you for not getting discouraged.
Awww, thank you. That really hit me in a good way.
I did get a little discouraged for a minute. I didn’t want to keep wrestling with the AI conspiracy crowd. It’s kinda like trying to have a quiet conversation while somebody bangs pots in your ear.
But the truth is, when I write a story and illustrate it, it feels like it arrived in my brain for a reason. Like it tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Put me out in the world. I can't do it on my own!" So I put it out there.
Your comments definitely made me smile.
You are so welcome! I'm happy if I encouraged you in any way. Remember, first they mock you, then they fight you, then they join you! Onward!
Eta 🫂😍