Art is pain, but there's some humor in that

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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Special Announcement To our friends and fans: Jeff Smith is recuperating from a cardiac arrest, which he suffered on Sunday. There will be a long road to recovery, so regrettably we must cancel the remainder of his book tour this year. Our apologies to his fans who were coming to see him at: Rob Con (VA), CXC (OH), Bedrock Comic Con (TX) and NYCC (NY). We hope this is just a bump in the road and that Jeff will see you all next year. Thank you for your support and understanding at this time.

@jeffsmithsbone @cartoonbooksinc 

dduane
andthebeanstalk

Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

bigbigtruck
feathernotes

I was writing up a post to help encourage folks who’ve always wanted to start a webcomic to dive in- and that they shouldnt have to fear ‘being perfect’ to start one
And as I was going along, it made me sad to realise that.. there is an expectation now in the webcomic sphere, as much as I want to deny it (and that it should NOT stop folks from creating!!! please keep creating, no matter your level)

I’m bummed out about the changes in the webcomic sphere over the past 5 years, i’m disappointed that there has been changes to this medium that was KNOWN for all of the different skill levels and flavours of so many different creators.
I want to combat that.

I want to see more beginner art, I want to see that excitment and embracing of growth. I want to see what made webcomics so accessible to so many creators and readers flourish again.

Hopefully, if you see this post, and you’ve always wanted to make a webcomic but felt you weren’t ‘good enough’ :
Make one anyways. Have fun even if you don’t know all the ‘ins and outs’ of comics. Make one because you’re obsessed with your characters and you wanna share them with the world. Make one just because you can, and not because it has to fit in some impossible standard we’ve forced onto ourselves because of the changing landscape.

Start one, and have fun doing it for YOU!

obscurewebcomictournament

#(someday I will learn to draw things more complex than stick figures and then nobody will be safe) <- tags from @wlw-webcomic-bracket

xkcd is one of the most popular webcomics of all time.

shinesurge

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hi i am here to tell you anything is possible if you’re stubborn enough lmao

mistahgrundy

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Just start your comics! You get better over time!

I mean how exactly are you supposed to get better at comics if you aren’t drawing comics?

besides it’s fun

bigbigtruck

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