I make no promises on if I will ever start it (though all the characters have their own little storylines, I just haven't written them down -- I'm doing that now, though)...but I am curious:
Poll #1479368 Fuzziness
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If I ever draw the comic "New York State of Mind," which should the characters be?
25 (89.3%)As humans, the comic would be more marketable...but let's face it, these guys are a lot more fun to draw as people with animal heads/tails. I'm pretty sure I know what the majority will say here, but it's worth putting up a poll just to confirm it =)
About the only thing that would change, character-wise, is that since Adeline would be a human female instead of a hermaphroditic snail, I'd lose a lot of "changing gender" jokes. Otherwise, everything would be pretty much exactly the same.
I need to get back to the City. Man. I'm craving a cup of hot chocolate tea from The Chocolate Bar.
- You Don't Know How It Feels:
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I'm still ill, but I slept something like 17 hours over the day so I'm feeling a bit better.
I love "New York State of Mind" as a concept, and my short run of it as a once-a-week comic was a lot of fun (though also a lot of work, but fun and rewarding work). However, as a concept, it has a lot of faults...the most obvious being that it's got 7 different main characters: Adeline, Thursday, Johanna, Tricia, Emily, Jacob, and Richard (technically, three couples and one person who's single). There's dozens of background and side characters because it's basically a place where I let my imagination go all out. Each of the main characters had their own individual story and between the couples there's stories as well. It's a lot to cram into one comic, and it's really not fair to the characters.
This is not to say I'm killing off NYSOM; hell no. I'm just saying I need to focus on something a little less complicated before I tackle a project that big in a serious fashion. NYSOM is several graphic novels unto itself; I would have to be a cartoonist full-time (oh, God, I hope that happens one day) to get the thing done in any reasonable amount of time.
There's also the unfortunate element of the fact that the characters are anthropomorphic animals. Now, don't get me wrong! I love furry, I've been part of the fandom for something like a decade now and I'm not about to give up drawing cartoon animals just because it's not marketable. But...well, unfortunately, it's not marketable. Unless you've got the skill of someone like Martin Wagner (Hepcats), and even he had a hard time getting folks to accept that his characters had animal heads. If I want to get anywhere comics-wise I either have to go with silly, cartoony animals (like Dodge & TG) or go with human beings.
Of course, attempting to do a webcomic should be purely out of love of the craft. But frankly...well. I don't want to be read only as a furry comic. All of my furry characters are people with animal characteristics, which is why it's easy to interchange them with human counterparts; not much changes, outside of character design. Not much of the animal part of my characters gets through, outside of the occasional passing joke. I draw animal characters because of the design aspect and because I watched too many cartoons as a kid.
I guess I'm stuck between a love of design and a challenge to improve my human drawing skills -- is it still a love of craft if part of the reason you're doing what you're doing is because you know people will find it a little less weird? Of course, this would involve sitting down and actually committing to a webcomic of some kind, which I'm not sure I'm ready to do.
But anyway. Johanna and Emily as human folks, with some random ideas for webcomic titles. Done on the tablet, which was harder than you'd think 'cause I keep coughing and sneezing.
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