Out of curiosity I went to that website and tried making some comics on my own. It's pretty fun! However, the site is pretty limited when you consider all the possibilities. Still, definitely a fast way to make quick-and-dirty comics. When I was a teenager I badly wanted to become a comics author, and even sent some of my cartoons to magazines. Of course, none of them ever got in, but Dragon magazine sent me a nice letter in which they said I had a funny gag but needed to work on my drawing and handwriting. :)
Seems like comics are another one of those things where the people with the best technical skill aren't necessarily the ones with the funniest ideas and vice versa. I read that many comics aren't actually written by the people who get credit; they have writers to feed them gags and they just whip them up into a comic strip. That's pretty lame IMO. Everyone who worked on it should get credit.
Out of curiosity I went to that website and tried making some comics on my own. It's pretty fun! However, the site is pretty limited when you consider all the possibilities. Still, definitely a fast way to make quick-and-dirty comics. When I was a teenager I badly wanted to become a comics author, and even sent some of my cartoons to magazines. Of course, none of them ever got in, but Dragon magazine sent me a nice letter in which they said I had a funny gag but needed to work on my drawing and handwriting. :)
Seems like comics are another one of those things where the people with the best technical skill aren't necessarily the ones with the funniest ideas and vice versa. I read that many comics aren't actually written by the people who get credit; they have writers to feed them gags and they just whip them up into a comic strip. That's pretty lame IMO. Everyone who worked on it should get credit.
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