Daily Grind Webcomic Challenge 264
Dauntilus writes "Bent Comics is sponsering a web-comic contest. Contestants put $20 into the pool, and they must update their comics 5 times a week. If they fail to update on time, they are out. Last artist in gets the pool. The contest started yesterday with a sweet $1,120 in the pot. A few big webcomic artists like Scott Kurtz (PVP) and Chris Crosby (Superosity) have even show up for the fun."
No PA :-( (Score:5, Interesting)
That eliminates Penny Arcade [penny-arcade.com] :-(3x a week, frequent screwups, but worth the free price of admission all the same.) Call me greedy, but I'd love to see PA daily =)
Don't forget Greg Dean! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:What about quality ? (Score:4, Interesting)
Have you ever seen Get Fuzzy? Granted, it's not a web comic (though it may be on comics.com or such) but they guy must have a time altering machine, for all the detail he puts in that strip. Wood grains, individual hairs, even the New Zealand All Blacks logo on Rob's cap. If the guy can do that strip daily, who's got a leg to stand on to say they can't?
Re:No PA :-( (Score:5, Interesting)
Hilarious stuff.
Re:ctrl alt del! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:My Prediction! (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:No PA :-( (Score:1, Interesting)
It's wacky.
What about Dilbert? (Score:1, Interesting)
Kurtz will lose, Diesel Sweeties would win (Score:1, Interesting)
As others have mentioned Diesel Sweeties is always on time, at least for the three years I've been a reader. I can't recall a single time R has missed a day. Even the wonderfully consistent Penny Arcade has faltered at times.
Imho publishing on time - whether it's five times a week or just once a month - is crucial for a comic. That's why I don't read PvP or Megatokyo anymore.
Re:Quantity over Quality (Score:3, Interesting)
Actually not, one of the rules is no sketches.
Now if u colored him in...
Or pull a southpark... grab MegaPOV (which can do cell-shaded renders in POVRay), make some basic objects and scripts, and just write dialog and positioning elements for each frame.
Hell, you could just make a random joke generator plugin to the above (doesn't have to be GOOD, just has to BE) and have it kick off every morning at midnight.
Indeed (Score:3, Interesting)
Yeah, I think Squidi's achievement in sheer quality and production values over a period of years has been quite amazing. I can't say I'm wild about the new style backgrounds (or the dangerous tendency to start making Art with a capital A), but I have to take my hat off to the guy for the sheer amount of quality images, text and plot he has produced. As a comic, it's funnyish; as an exercise in continuity and development, it's outstanding.
I'm not quite sure what all the troubles surrounding the artist actually are. His editorials (except maybe when he gets political) strike me as remarkably organized and sensible, not the work of a net.kook at all... but it sure looks like he annoyed a lot of people somehow.
What's the point? (Score:3, Interesting)
Why would a webcomic artist who has already shown himself able to produce one comic a day for the past several years (even if it's not up until 6pm) enter into a contest like this?
The point is to provide a challenge and provide competition. For people who have already proven themselves in this arena, they are merely making it psychologically impossible for the intended audience to participate and hope to win. Someone who *just might* graduate to the next level of comic production may have decided to make the plunge and make a living at it. But with people in the competition who have already shown they can do it, how many people are going to drop out just because they know that they won't be able to compete in the very long run that this contest will inevitably go to?
I think it's a bit sad when people who are already making a living at webcomics decide to get involved in a contest that's obviously not aimed at them.
No, I didn't go to the site sponsoring the competition. If they intended these "semi pro's" to participate, he's scamming a sizeable loan out of a lot of people. If they didn't intend them to participate, it obviously wasn't stated in the rules. If they didn't even think about it, they're shortsighted.
Re:Quantity over Quality (Score:2, Interesting)
Like this [crummy.com]?
Re:Quantity over Quality (Score:1, Interesting)
I read the entire Feb '05 month of PVP, and saw nothing that was even remotely funny. I noticed a few strips where I thought the artist was trying to make people laugh, but I couldn't be sure.
If that's the stuff that's considered "heavyweight", I shudder to think what the teeming masses draw.