Comments on: Breakup Comics

By: admin

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:22:44 +0000

Sure thing Polprav, go nuts! If you could give the link here as to where we could see your post referencing us, that would be swell! E-mail to mail@leadpaintcomics.com works too!
-Mike

By: Polprav

Polprav — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:12:49 +0000

Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?

By: admin

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:15:16 +0000

@ Taylor SB: Thanks for posting, and I don’t think of that as fickle at all. I mean, I’ve stopped reading comics I like a great deal just because their archive is too small, let alone how fast I bail on a comic that is having an off spell.

@ Sandy: Thanks for posting, and I hope we’re able to maintain the quality you seek.

-Mike

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:46:00 +0000

Pretty much ‘A’, although it has to maintain some kind of quality or I lose interest pretty fast. I’m also a sucker for nice drawings, so I’ll often tune in to look even if I don’t like the writing all that much.
I like your strip a lot!

By: Taylor SB

Taylor SB — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:28:34 +0000

It really only takes one comic to hook me. But It also only takes a few weeks of crappy comics for me to take it off my list of comics to check regularly. Until I wrote that out I never thought of myself as fickle.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:14:11 +0000

Another week, another bunch of comments from people who are far to kind.

@JBon: You’re being too nice, as per usual. Glad you like panel 2, I had written a bunch of alternates for it. They all had pretty much the same reaction from Avery, but one had a guy wearing a lame hat and another had a guy cutting his spaghetti. Don’t ask me why I find the latter so funny, because I’m not really sure.

Not to make you stay away from District 9, but I have to say, when I saw it, I wasn’t paying attention to where I sat, and ended up right in front of a 13-year old. He couldn’t really follow the movie, and was asking questions a little too often. So basically, I wanted to spin kick the whole family for bringing him.

Anyway, my point is mostly irrelevent, besides that I can relate to wanting to shut away from the world. But, District 9 is fun, and you should see it because there is soda and popcorn and maybe a trailer for Zombieland also.

I feel like answer A) is the fearless man’s choice, and while I’d like to be him, I don’t know if I have the stones just yet.

WR: You are full of wisdom. 50 or 60 seems to be the number getting thrown out by people “in the biz” as well, and by “in the biz” I mean other semi-struggling cartoonists on Webcomicing forums. Still, there is logic in your answer that I find agreeable, and while these pros may be semi-struggling, they are still way more experienced than myself or Dana.

Inglorious Basterds you say? And Mike Myers is in it? I think I have to see it just for the utter ridiculousness that promises. Also, I hope your eye is all better now. I’ve never hurt my eyes, but it seems like it would be a fairly horrible thing.

@John K: As am I brother, as am I …

@Emmy: Thanks for reading all our stuff and adding us to your list. A new reader is basically like a shot of meth for Dana and I.

@Vince: Thanks for bookmarking. Your point is wise, and makes me scracth my chin …

-Mike

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:42:51 +0000

For your question I feel it really depends. If you read something like Questionable Content in order to get acquainted you have to read through a really large amount of their archive. Something like XKCD all it took was http://xkcd.com/112/ and I was hooked.

I read one comic I found on Stumbleupon and knew I’d be bookmarking your site.

By: Emmy

Emmy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:50:32 +0000

Usually C, but this comic had me at A. I found one strip via stumbleupon, and it was fantastic, so I read through and added it to my list to check obsessively.

By: John K

John K — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:25:07 +0000

Love the last one… but I am a fan boy so….

By: WR Davidson

WR Davidson — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:02:18 +0000

Some comics, like your own, I get hooked on from the first one I see. Others… well, some comics need time to develop, and so an archive is important. If you do more character-driven comics, then a lengthy archive would be more important (from a “drawing new people in” point of view), but given that most of the humour so far has been understandable without knowing the main characters, I would say that a huge backlog of comics isn’t necessary. 50 or 60 sounds like plenty, but I’m not in the business so I can’t really give you an informed opinion as to a specific number.

Oh, and I just saw Inglorious Basterds. While the experience was somewhat hampered by an eye-injury, the only way I could be more effusive in my praise was if they had cast someone other than Mike Myers for the seven lines he had. Man can’t keep a straight face to save his life. Anyway. If you liked Tarantino’s other films, you’ll love it. If you have a warped or dark sense of humour you’ll love it. The entire theatre was laughing at some points, which can only be counted as a good sign, I suspect.