It’s been suggested that you guys, my favorite readers in the whole world, would prefer bigger story arcs instead of little gag-a-day cartoons.
Okay. Here we go. If my outline holds up, the events kicking off today shouldn’t be resolved for a few months. Fun!
You’re steerin’ the ship, we’re just along for the ride.
It’s not a ship so much as it is a unicycle with a flat tire being ridden surfer style down a gravelly landslide by Bigfoot.
Man, I like that image. I may have to doodle that up and use it for a weekend post.
You THINK so, but it’s the twenty-first century. The communication is circular… and FAST. So, Hubris is OUR strip, not just mine, y’know.
That’s cool!
Clear and chilly around Chicago today. I’m taking my daughter skydiving today. ( 17th birthday present )
She don’t know yet, but we each have two jump tickets. So when she says she can’t wait to go again, she won’t have to.
See ya on the ground.
You are the Dad I wish I was. Or wish I had.
As a performance theory major, speaking from education and experience, the first rule of all art is:
Your audience doesn’t know what it wants until it sees you do it.
The single most common form of critique practiced by people who don’t know anything at all about critique is ‘snark’. The second most common can be paraphrased, “wow! I wish I’d done that, but if I had I would have done this, this, this, this, and this differently.. oh! and this, and this, and this …”
The correct way to handle those is to stop reading at the sixth word.
You’re the one who has to stare at the blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. As Neil Simon once put it, “where were you when they delivered all those reams of silence?”
So let me put this clearly: I don’t want to see what you think I think I want you to show me.
I want to see what you come up with.
Most of all, I want to see the kind of strips you come up with when you’re having fun with them.
I have no idea what those will look like. I greatly look forward to finding out.
That, and we’re all craptacular writers, at least I am anyway.
Don’t worry. I don’t write humor to suit anyone but myself- a thing made easier by the fact that I’m alone in the studio most times. But I don’t mind couching the gags in a story arc. So far, I tend to slip back and forth from shorter stories to gag-a-day stuff- the way I was trained to do my newspaper strip.
The way I see it is that the feedback is a plus. I’m not just running around on a stage, blind to the audience. I get to learn from a dialogue, and I don’t mind learning. I do know cartoonists that deal very poorly with critique. And I know some that thrive on it. I hope I tend toward the thrivin’ and the learnin’. Don’t want any potential tools going unused, right?
eh Greg … does Joey get to colour hubris for ya like he does Buckets? Or is Hubris 100% Greg?
The only hand in Hubris is me, so if the colors look wonky, then it’ my fault. Of course, if there’s something particularly lovely in there, you can give all the credit to… well, Luck. Or my old Color Theory teachers.
No no, no problems. They all look great to my untrained eye. 😀
Yes!! Almost time for the oudorrsfest!!!!
Has anyone ever noticed the tangled rope turning into a noose in Hubris’ hands, last panel? It’s the little touches that complete the package!