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Jackel
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posted 29-08-2002 12:12 AM     Profile for Jackel   Author's Homepage   Email Jackel     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Have any of you made a comic book?

Have you even gone as far as having it published or attempting too?
If so, what happened?

If you have some of your own comic pages, feel free to post some.


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Bomu
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posted 29-08-2002 12:50 AM     Profile for Bomu   Author's Homepage   Email Bomu     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Well, I had always wanted to produce my own comic- Two infact! A sleezy but fun hentai adventure and a martial arts action book, but didn't even really get so far as to producing any of the pages properly let alone considering publishing. It'll always be the dream tho. Maybe when I get good enough and feel more confident with my art, I'll see what I can do!

Most people that start their own books are usually in the form of fanzines- sometimes 2 artists or more work on several pages each and put thier contributions together, then print it off thier own back- printers or photocopiers etc. Then you could try going for smaller but more professional looking print runs?

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Bugsy
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posted 29-08-2002 05:54 PM     Profile for Bugsy   Author's Homepage   Email Bugsy     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Maybe I'll start a free crappy webcomic some day, when I can be bothered to complete the story

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G.i.A.m.
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posted 02-09-2002 02:36 AM     Profile for G.i.A.m.   Email G.i.A.m.     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
hm I have quite alot of concepts in my mind (mostly short stuff) but right now my drawing ability is to low (it is getting better tho so maybe I start some one pager this year).

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tuigi
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posted 02-09-2002 02:59 AM     Profile for tuigi   Author's Homepage   Email tuigi     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
i have a lot of ideas for comic too
and i writh them down just in case that when i have the skill i forget about it.you should do so too.


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Hellangel
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posted 04-09-2002 12:18 PM     Profile for Hellangel   Author's Homepage   Email Hellangel     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I wouldn't publish em but they're goin on the net.
At TZ I'm known for my insane Tekken comics. but I did one call Crash picture it

Dante,Lara,Snake,Claire and Raziel get stranded in plane crash. caused by Hwoarang you need to read to find out etc. food problems and cameos by auron,Jin,akira,Kasumi Zombies,SR vampire and Nelo angelo,anne Robinson-eh? I can find it if you wanna read.

Me and SFS on TZ are buildin our tekken comic site together. note that all my comics are insane and usually thank god make ppl laugh.

awesome online comics you should check out are
RPG world
Tea Club-Actually its ben published congrats to PMBQ who I talk to sometimes
And Tekken comic Dark Messiah thats pretty damn good by my pal LL.

My latest comics are
Demons-any excuse for a fight

Survival horror- I rip SH games by makin characters like Leonard Enkeddy,Clara and donte and my orig guy then put them in stupid scenarios with weird rip boss characters. I plan to get it up soon. I know some ppl who really wanna see it.

My latest Tekken comic Friends 4 never
and thats it I love comics I should of told you that somthin I do when i'm bored.


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AKATT
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posted 05-09-2002 11:02 PM     Profile for AKATT   Email AKATT     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
i have many comics. but none of them have got past two pages. i have too mnay ideas running at once.

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Jackel
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posted 06-09-2002 12:11 AM     Profile for Jackel   Author's Homepage   Email Jackel     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Yeah, I have that problem too, and anything past 1-2 pages sucks.
But hopefully the one I'm working on now for school will be really good, 'cause I got a year to do it.

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Pixie Nim
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posted 06-09-2002 03:54 PM     Profile for Pixie Nim   Author's Homepage   Email Pixie Nim     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I've had loads of ideas for things, but nothing I've ever wanted to put to paper (in any sense). My stories float around my head, sticking to bits of other things, and in this way they grow.... ;)

My main problem is that when I write my writing is designed for one of two mediums: film, or simply creative writing. The latter being written to be read on a page, the point of it mainly being word play (and such like). The former is muchly frustrating - it would make sense (certainly economically for myself!) to make a comic of my story (which is developing nicely) but it just drives me mad when I can't include the music, or the ack of sound or action. Film is not just abou what you see and hear and think, it's what you don't see hear or think too... and though composition in artwork is similar, I guess my first love will always be film...

*sigh*

and I also guess I'll never finish that story... :( which is a shame. the concept's amazing, even if it is about stoners. heh.

Pixie

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Hellangel
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posted 09-09-2002 12:30 PM     Profile for Hellangel   Author's Homepage   Email Hellangel     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
The main prob I have is I get far ai'm on a role then a part in the story comes that is hard such as the pose the action what happens I haven't the skill to draw it out.

Or in other cases I get bored cos its so slow. Like in my fic story Crimson Star i've shown the TZ guys pics of characters who appear way later on and wanna get to that stage ASAP.


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plastic_corpse
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posted 09-09-2002 02:07 PM     Profile for plastic_corpse   Email plastic_corpse     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Pixie Nim wrote

"...writing is designed for one of two mediums: film, or..."

If you write for film don't you use storyboards? And is it that much of a jump from that to a comic?

Just wondering

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Pixie Nim
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posted 12-09-2002 02:55 PM     Profile for Pixie Nim   Author's Homepage   Email Pixie Nim     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Plastic corpse - no, I write them in screenplay form and plan everything (angle changes and stuff) mentally and in note form first. I rarely draw any of it. I hate my drawings if they're no good (imo) and so I'd hate everything I did towards the film very quickly, or else spend YEARS doing the drawing and hate it within a couple of weeks. My writing stands the test of time a little better!
Also, my mental picture of my characters never matches up to my drawings... (depressing). If I ever wanted to actually finish a story in comic form, it'd have to be the same level of film-like setting, angles and realism (talking about the artwork here, not the story!) as Preacher. And I CAN'T draw like that, bless me....

Pixie

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neo
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posted 13-09-2002 12:43 AM     Profile for neo   Email neo     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I started one 2day and im on the tenth page. Its a lovely fusion of demons v man and military blunders which leave 2 squads of special forces marines and researchers up shit creek in a lab complex thats become the middle ground between hell n Earth. The Shadow plane, a nightmare version of our world where our own fears become our killers. The solution, MIBV Mental Immunity Barrier Vaccine, Stops the worst kind of demons manifesting.

20 years ago the military found a book, DARKFORGE. The last grimoire of the blackest magic. Since then the Pentagon has had many shadow agencies attempting to turn this into a usable weapon. The Richmond facility in rural China is one of these facilities.

After twenty years of research the facility announces a breakthrough, then everything goes quiet. All attempts to communicate are met by static. GPS and overhead recon report the facility is undamaged but its staff of one hundred army and scientific personel are seemingly gone.

Enter the Marine Special Recon Unit. Hurriedly rushed to site they have no idea whats happening inside. No clue as to why their squad suddenly contains a civvie psycic. And no idea as to what that module attached to their tac-vest injects them with every hour. All they know is they have to assess the condition of the facility and rescue any survivors. They have little support either as China will treat a buildup of American forces within their borders as an act of war.

When the second gunship is forced to land for repairs, Recon squad two is forced to make their way on foot to the facility while Recon squad one go on ahead. Tyler Maxwell and his squad 2 arrive three hours behind squad 1. The first thing they find is the tattered corpse of one of recon one torn six ways from sunday and the marks of a heavy duty firefight. Maria Aerhart the psycic touches the body and sees what the marine saw in his last moments. Feels his pain, desperation.

And thats as far as ive got. What do u reckon?.


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clarion
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posted 13-09-2002 01:25 AM     Profile for clarion   Author's Homepage   Email clarion     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I've considered making a comic, not really for publication but just to put on my website. I've got several stories (some actually written and complete) and a lot of times I sketch out scenes and character designs before I ever write about them...it would just be a matter of organizing it in a more visual form rather than textual.

I think I would probably be more likely to just make an illustrated story, rather than a full-fledged comic (this is actually an idea I've been playing around with for a while).


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neo
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posted 13-09-2002 02:13 AM     Profile for neo   Email neo     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
and when mibv runs out their own mind brings their worst nightmares to life. Immortal visions of madness made flesh. Neat huh?
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G.i.A.m.
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posted 13-09-2002 08:01 PM     Profile for G.i.A.m.   Email G.i.A.m.     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Yeah the lag of music in a comic is a big down (most scence I come up with are made with a certain song in mind and sometimes only work right with the music in bg).

but I guess trying to get a good result with this limitation could be a fun and challenging job (same goes for the movement).

For storyboards and comics I have to disagree that they come very close.
I think the storyboard comes closer to the tumbnail layout drawing most comic artists do, before they start the big pages.
No sound(words), no dialog, no details.

neo uhm it sounds like the story for a very cheap scifi movie(dont worry the different between a good scifi and a bad one is often, the way how it is told and not what is told ).

It also reminds me of a outerlimit episode I zapped in.

Which was about a special forces squad that fighted aliens in a mine complex.
The squad also had to inject themself a medicine, that prevented them from falling under the control of the aliens.
One of the members has the felling that something is wrong with the whole situation tho and stops taking the drug.

She than discovers that the Aliens are human(I thing rebelling mine workers) and that the drug makes them believe they are shooting aliens.

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neo
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posted 13-09-2002 09:54 PM     Profile for neo   Email neo     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I saw that one too. The miners were on the same vaccine too. Nice twist. It seemed a good idea at the time to write it on here. One of those things that seems a good idea at 4am. Sorry.
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