December 01 2005
Checkerboard Nightmare returns....at least, infrequently. Kristofer Straub's Starslip Crisis isn't good. Its as simple as that. Checkerboard Nightmare is the good stuff he's done, it fills a natural niche in the webcomic market, its self-referential and makes fun of other comics. Its only
natural that fans go nuts and beg him to write more. Checkerboard Nightmare is
essential to the scene, Starslip Crisis just sucks. For today's comic, what Checkerboard Nightmare is poking fun at is
this, which is obviously a huge (nee important) step for
Ctrl+Alt+Del. Animation? Yeah, that might be sensical step for it, though, personally, I whould love to see TV animation for the comic because Geek humor like that isn't done as much. Now, I'm not saying that I should have to pay that much for it, or even at all, mind you. I'm not gonna be a griefer about paying, really. I mean, he can and probably is making money off the comic and good for him. But I'm just not certain that
I want to pay that much for it, irregardless of quality. Still, its a pretty brave and important step here, and I congratulate Tim Buckley for it. Soooo....do I want to make money with my comic? Not really. I think what I really want is recognition. If I make one book and it shows up somewhere and some people buy it, I think I'd be happy regardless of the money gained. And to that end, I'm sure my art is good enough. I mean, I don't want to do whatever everyone else is doing. That whould be bad, but I really want
positive recognition from people, I don't want them to say "oh yeah, that comic. I thought it was drawn by a
five year old girl." Essentially, I guess I'm torn between putting out a good product and the product
I want. I don't want to be rich. I don't need to be rich. I'm just a storyteller reaching out with my story. I'm just gonna tell my story and thats that. Any money comes anncilliary from that.
2 Comments:
I thought Starslip Crisis was pretty good, but I guess you got my number!
O.O uhm, wow. Thank you so much for responding. Of course, you make me feel like a tool but thats your job, isn't it? Anyway, do you really think that Starslip Crisis is better than Checkerboard Nightmare? Then, more power to you, man. Seriously. You should be doing what you want to do, but I feel that its significantly weaker than Checkerboard Nightmare. I guess, its just that, Starslip Crisis doesn't work for me. I just don't feel its a good comic. And it certainly is not as good as Checkerboard Nightmare.
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