Yah!

I've finally released my online comic after 14 months in production.

You can see it at http://uq.net.au/~zzgkrumi/apathy.html

And of course, this release is not affiliated in any way with Acid Productions or any other group.

Enjoy!

i'll have to quote heretic here : 'looks cool' :)

Well, i've learnt a few things along the way too, so I'll tell all about them.

Whatever you do, don't try doing a comic in an airbrushed style with fuckloads of detail, it'll take forever, and you'll possibly lose your
sanity, it's even worse when all you've got is a mouse. I was getting sick of how long it took to do a single frame, so i cut a few
corners here and there, as you can see on the second and fourth pages.

and *if* you still want to do it airbrushed, just do sketches and paint from those, rather then doing a sketch, and an inked copy
afterwards.

be sure to have a complete story, because if you only do part of the story, you sort of get lost and can't think of how to continue on
with the stuff. i'm bad at doing that, so i enlisted a writer to do the story for me.

and um... make the thing a decent length, like 12 pages =]..

Yeah, we had the same problem when we did The Chickenator comic (which is no longer online). We used an ink drawing and
scanned the page and used multiply to fill it in -- with airbrushing.. Took about 1-2 hours for each page, but fuck it looked sweet..

Allow me to introduce myself. I'm "real world art" co-ordinator of hallucigenia, as well as the editor of a comic book anthology based
out of vancouver, canada. Cthulu - one of my roommates - told me of this discussion - saying that I would be interested. And he was
right.

I must say I was extremely impressed with the realistic detail of apathy's artwork in issue 1. On the matter of your style - I think that
if you were to do a more cartoony style there are other reasons to do so than the effort involved.

When you have a character that is more iconic or cartoony, the reader becomes more involved, and begins to relate better to the
character. (For more detail on this idea I recommend "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud.)

And though this isn't necessarily directly related, I also recommend you all visit Scott McCloud's homepage:
http://www.scottmccloud.com and the homepage of my comic anthology: http://mirror.dfact.bc.ca

- SK

haven't seen the comic but i'm sure it's good.. however, the name "apathy"'s been nabbed in the scene already. ohwell, it's a moot
point. rock on.

misfit