Comments on: Webcomics Storm Warning

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Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:21:11 +0000

[...] (Link via Gary Tyrrell.) [...]

By: SuperH

SuperH — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:50:20 +0000

Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate any kind of nod in my direction, but man… If I received half the amount of news posts and blog links to a Girly comic I really nail as I do for my somewhat controversial Livejournal posts, I’d be a happy guy. =|

Since I posted the article, I’ve gotten a few requests from artists for me to critique their comic. I’ll get to those eventually, but for now, I’m honestly burnt out on this. The next several posts of mine dealing with webcomics will involve what I said just now: Me pointing out when other webcomic authors really nail their comics.

And by that I mean, when they post a strip or page that’s particularly impressive. I don’t mean them having sex with their comics.

Though if they do that, I’ll report on it too.

By: Sam Logan

Sam Logan — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:18:47 +0000

Least impressive webcomics storm ever!

By: J. Jacques

J. Jacques — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:27:50 +0000

I thought it was a pretty well-written critique. I didn’t necessarily agree with everything he wrote (as Josh and I are not clones) but I certainly found his thoughts on my artwork helpful.

By: Sean C

Sean C — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:31:31 +0000

Hey, there was no malice in the crits, so that’s pretty damn good right there, especially for the internet.

By: Nich

Nich — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:00:26 +0000

It seemed like a pretty fair essay. The only thing I noticed about it that I don’t hold with is Lesnick’s antipathy toward “geometric” art styles–obviously, he prefers a looser line, and he uses it well, but I don’t think that something cleaner-looking is necessarily soulless.

By: Lore

Lore — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:19:09 +0000

I liked the essay, and I don’t agree with all of it. I learned from it, which is more than I can say of most essays of this type, which usually fall into “everything sucks but the things I like, and everyone’s too dumb to realize it” or “everything’s special in its own way, so I’m just going to hand out high fives and buddy hugs.”

By: Miles

Miles — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:13:12 +0000

I thought Lesnick’s essay/rant/whatever here was pretty accurate. Though he is definitely holding comic art to a particular standard or sensibility that isn’t necessarily universal.