Comments on: #webcomicschat – For Fun or Profit http://www.supersiblingscomics.com/2010/04/21/webcomicschat-for-fun-or-profit/ All ages comic strip for geeks and their kids. Wed, 22 May 2013 16:27:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Patrick http://www.supersiblingscomics.com/2010/04/21/webcomicschat-for-fun-or-profit/#comment-554 Patrick Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:31:38 +0000 http://www.supersiblingscomics.com/?p=716#comment-554 You are totally right. I'm finally starting to get a thick skin and be able to tell people no. I don't know why it's so hard to do but I have to now. In this day and age illustrators shouldn't spend their free time chasing someone else's vision but should instead develop their own. You are totally right. I’m finally starting to get a thick skin and be able to tell people no. I don’t know why it’s so hard to do but I have to now. In this day and age illustrators shouldn’t spend their free time chasing someone else’s vision but should instead develop their own.

]]> By: Eddie http://www.supersiblingscomics.com/2010/04/21/webcomicschat-for-fun-or-profit/#comment-553 Eddie Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:56:21 +0000 http://www.supersiblingscomics.com/?p=716#comment-553 Oh, and as far as making a profit...I'm still trying to figure that one out! :) Oh, and as far as making a profit…I’m still trying to figure that one out! :)

]]> By: Eddie http://www.supersiblingscomics.com/2010/04/21/webcomicschat-for-fun-or-profit/#comment-552 Eddie Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:55:33 +0000 http://www.supersiblingscomics.com/?p=716#comment-552 To follow up a bit on my comment about investing in your own intellectual property, as a professional artist for over twenty years, I have been asked to work on spec through the years for ambitious creators who have great ideas (so they say) but don't have the artistic ability to bring them to life. At different times in my career, for some reason or another (usually due to my inability to say "no"), I have taken on this kind of charity work only to find that my ideas to make it better are dismissed. Needless to say, non —yes, NONE— of these projects took off. Some of the people went as far as to blame me for the failure. As I look back I realize that it was time that could have been better spent creating my own projects. Effort and sweat maybe all we can afford to invest in our own projects, but if time is money, then I think I'm better off spending that money on something that will be mine alone. To follow up a bit on my comment about investing in your own intellectual property, as a professional artist for over twenty years, I have been asked to work on spec through the years for ambitious creators who have great ideas (so they say) but don’t have the artistic ability to bring them to life.

At different times in my career, for some reason or another (usually due to my inability to say “no”), I have taken on this kind of charity work only to find that my ideas to make it better are dismissed. Needless to say, non —yes, NONE— of these projects took off. Some of the people went as far as to blame me for the failure. As I look back I realize that it was time that could have been better spent creating my own projects.

Effort and sweat maybe all we can afford to invest in our own projects, but if time is money, then I think I’m better off spending that money on something that will be mine alone.

]]> By: Thorne http://www.supersiblingscomics.com/2010/04/21/webcomicschat-for-fun-or-profit/#comment-545 Thorne Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:31:39 +0000 http://www.supersiblingscomics.com/?p=716#comment-545 Absolutely, I believe that our webcomics, or at least mine is an extension of my imagination, of who I am. I recently ordered product for an upcoming festival I am doing, and to hold in my hands something I created, is well a little bit awe inspiring to me. I am not a commercial artist, but I am an artist. and to be able to say that still makes me smile, and I'm 33. Great chat last night! Absolutely, I believe that our webcomics, or at least mine is an extension of my imagination, of who I am. I recently ordered product for an upcoming festival I am doing, and to hold in my hands something I created, is well a little bit awe inspiring to me. I am not a commercial artist, but I am an artist. and to be able to say that still makes me smile, and I’m 33. Great chat last night!

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