OotS 258 posted

[diaglo]

so who is this Rich character. i don't think i've seen him mentioned before.

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hope he is better soon. ... diaglo "who hung with Rich at GenCon Indy 03" Ooi

 

[DaveMage]

so who is this Rich character. i don't think i've seen him mentioned before.

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hope he is better soon. ... diaglo "who hung with Rich at GenCon Indy 03" Ooi

I dunno, but at least he's got a babe to tend him...

 

[Kahuna Burger]

hope he feels better, but he really needs to get a couple of strips ahead so he'll have a buffer. Maybe go back to 2 posted strips a week but keep his goal at producing three, then after a month go back to three a week.

 

[fett527]

I dunno, but at least he's got a babe to tend him...

Yeah, I want hot soup brought to me in bed!

 

[freebfrost]

so who is this Rich character. i don't think i've seen him mentioned before.

Dude, *HE'S* the Creature in the Darkness!

 

[BiggusGeekus]

hope he feels better, but he really needs to get a couple of strips ahead so he'll have a buffer.

Enough webcomics don't seem to do this that I've reached three possible conclusions:

a) Webcomics are harder than they look
b) Webcomic artists/writers are inheriently disorganized
c) I am smarter than every single webartist on the entire planet and parts of the Moon.


I'm hoping the answer is "C" but I have a feeling it is "A". Though the guys who draw syndicated comics for the newspaper have to have things done weeks in advance. (kids: newspapers were like websites that were published on the corpses of trees)

 

[The_Gneech]

Enough webcomics don't seem to do this that I've reached three possible conclusions:

a) Webcomics are harder than they look
b) Webcomic artists/writers are inheriently disorganized
c) I am smarter than every single webartist on the entire planet and parts of the Moon.


I'm hoping the answer is "C" but I have a feeling it is "A". Though the guys who draw syndicated comics for the newspaper have to have things done weeks in advance. (kids: newspapers were like websites that were published on the corpses of trees)

Mostly A, with some B. As for C, I'm sure you're smarter than some of us, but not, say, Mark Stanley.

-The Gneech

 

[Henrix]

so who is this Rich character. i don't think i've seen him mentioned before.

Well, we have seen "Rich" a couple of times before, actually. His appearance is a little erratic, though, sometimes he's green, sometimes not - a half-orc, perhaps?

The last time he appeared was mostly odd, but I suspect it is some sort of foreshadowing.

But the first time he appeared he reavealed a lot of "secret" information about the rest of the cast.

I sense he'll show up again, brewing some sort of metaplot, probably involving giant space hamsters, the nemesis of the space cats.

 

[WizarDru]

I'm hoping the answer is "C" but I have a feeling it is "A". Though the guys who draw syndicated comics for the newspaper have to have things done weeks in advance.

I think the answer might be "D":

D: Making a Living by being a Webcomic artist, with all of the associated merchandising, publishing, community development, shipping and development work is hard work.

Most webcomic artists aren't full-time by any measure, so there's a reason that they don't get their comics out on time. Rich Burlew is a full-time webcomic artist, afaik, but part of his system requires book publishing and merchandise development (more recently with Paizo) and all the headaches that come from being an independent businessman.

I don't think most webcomic artists have material done ahead of time because they don't HAVE to. No syndicate is paying them, generally, and there is little or no penatly for being late with a strip.

 

[Kwitchit]

Rich, of course, is the overdeity of the OotS campaign world.